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franc_2011_Rights 23-09-2011 18:37 Pagina 1 FRANKFURT 2011 RIGHTS LIST franc_2011_Rights 23-09-2011 18:37 Pagina 2 CONTENTS BOMPIANI RIGHTS LIST 2011 FICTION Roberto Andò The Empty Throne 6 Angela Bubba Malinati 7 Pietrangelo Buttafuoco The Wolf and the Moon 8 Paola Capriolo Cain 9 Ivan Cotroneo A Kiss 10 Andrea De Carlo Sheandhe 11 Federica De Paolis I Hear You 12 Luca Di Fulvio The Great Excommunicated 13 Giuseppe Di Piazza Sleepy Eyes or rather The Four Chants of Palermo 14 Umberto Eco The Prague Cemetery 15 Mario Fortunato Allegra Street 16 Dario Franceschini Over Again 17 Fausta Garavini Diary of Solitudes 18 Massimiliano Governi Who Writes Dies 19 Francesca Lancini Without Heels 20 Vincenzo Latronico The Conspiracy of the Doves 21 Vladimir Luxuria Eldorado 22 Nada Malanima The Large House 23 Edoardo Nesi The Story of My People 24 Clara Nubile You, Like Everything You Touch 25 Pierluigi Panza Born under the Moon 26 Aurelio Picca Goodbye 27 Aleksandr Sokurov In the Center of the Ocean 28 Flavio Soriga Blackrain 29 franc_2011_Rights 23-09-2011 18:37 Pagina 4 CONTENTS NON FICTION Attilio Bolzoni Faq Mafia 32 FICTION Eleonora Duse Letters to Gabriele D'Annunzio 33 Umberto Eco Building the Enemy 34 Diego Fusaro Minimum Marketaly 35 Enzo Golino Beyond Literature 36 Luca Guadagnino Gastronomical Journey Through Italy 37 Giordano Bruno Guerri The Italians under the Church 38 Stefano Livadiotti In the Name of God 39 Benito Mussolini Mussolini’s Diaries (presumed) 1936 volume 3 40 Umberto Pasti Gardens and non-Gardens 41 Rossana Rossanda Visions 42 Vittorio Sgarbi Rome: from Renaissance to the Present Day 43 Vittorio Sgarbi Full of Grace 44 Luca Telese – Alessandro Sallusti Berlusconeide 45 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS Umberto Eco History of Beauty 49 Umberto Eco History of Ugliness 49 Umberto Eco The Infinity of List 50 Andrea Mantegna The Eternal Spouses 51 Giovanni Reale – Elisabetta Sgarbi Trilogy on the Sacred Sculpture 52 CLASSIC AUTHORS Cesare Brandi Journeys and Literary Writings 55 Fernanda Pivano Diaries, vol. I and II 56 Antonio Pizzuto Dolls Repaired Here 57 Giovanni Testori Works, vol.I, II, III 58 franc_2011_Rights 23-09-2011 18:37 Pagina 6 FICTION BOMPIANI RIGHTS LIST ROBERTO ANDÒ NEW TITLE ANGELA BUBBA NEW TITLE 2012 2012 The Empty Throne Malinati Il trono vuoto A novel that recounts the farse of politics when the party leaders are inexistent and anyone can A combination of Acciaio and Gomorra, another young talent of Italian fiction denounces her take their place world – a Southern Italy that could be different if someone talked about it The leader of the main opposion party, Salvatore Olivieri, fifty years old, tired out by the neg- A market: the one at Rosarno, where a thousand tensions have preceded and “warned”those ative opinion polls and by some judiciary problems, decides one day to hook it: he disap- who should have understood and didn’t. A hospital, also in Calabria, where various women pears without telling anyone (not even his wife or assistant), leaving just a short note of reas- have been abandoned in the corridor because those responsible for the stretchers had fin- surance. He anonymously travels to Paris, to Danielle, an actress with whom he had had a ished their shift. A factory, typical of the industrialisation of the South, full of illegalities and brief affair twenty years before, but meanwhile, in Italy, his nearest and dearest are trying to pollution. Crotone, a city that symbolises the whole region of Calabria, lacking in bookshops find a solution to the very serious problem that Salvatore’s disappearance has caused the and where one of the few booksellers confuses Agota Kristof and Agatha Christie. party. His wife and spokesperson turn to his twin brother, Ernani, a professor of philosophy And finally Rome, where the author studies and where she sees the protests against the con- and ex-psychiatric patient. He’s the only one that could know where Salvatore is. In actual dition of women in Iran, without thinking of those secret acts of violence and the inferiority fact, Ernani provides no clues but takes over his absent brother’s position in all naturalness: declared and introjected by so many women in Southern Italy. he gives interviews, holds rallies, presides over meetings – and, obviously, revolutionises the Stories about Italy, from a South that is loved and lived, and for this reason – for love – party’s politicies. But this is not necessarily harmful, on the contrary... denounced. ROBERTO ANDò, BESIDES HIS STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY, HAS The youngest candidate for the 2010 Strega Prize COLLABORATED WITH SUCH GIANTS OF CINEMA AS FRANCESCO ROSI, FEDERICO FELLINI, MICHAEL CIMINO AND FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA. BESIDES CINEMA, HE HAS DIRECTED FOR THEATRE AND OPERA, AND MULTIMEDIA, DIRECTING THE ORESTIADI, AN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL HELD ANNUALLY AT GIBELLINA, ANGELA BUBBA WAS BORN IN MESORACA, IN THE SICILY, AND THE FESTIVAL NOVECENTO AT PALERMO. AMONG PROVINCE OF CROTONE, IN 1989. SHE ATTENDED HIS MOST IMPORTANT SHOWS: LA FORESTA-RADICE-LABIRINTO, CLASSIC HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN THE FACULTY OF DEVELOPED FROM AN UNPUBLISHED TEXT ENTRUSTED TO HIM CLASSIC LETTERS AT THE UNIVERSITÀ LA SAPIENZA BY ITALO CALVINO, WITH SCENES BY RENATO GUTTUSO; LA IN ROME.DESPITE BEING SO YOUNG SHE GAINED SABBIA DEL SONNO, ACTION FOR MUSIC AND FILM WITH MUSIC IMPORTANT RECOGNITION FROM THE CRITICS: HER BY LUCIANO BERIO AND MARCO BETTA; THE MULTIMEDIA SHORT STORY “IL MATRIMONIO” WON HER THE 2006 OPERA FRAMMENTI SULL’APOCALISSE, INTERPRETED BY MONI PREMIO VERGA, AND WITH “QUARTO DI LUNA” SHE OVADIA. IN 1999 HE DIRECTED LE MARTYRE DE SAINT CAME SECOND IN THE 2007 PREMIO CAMPIELLO SéBASTIEN BY GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO AND CLAUDE DEBUSSY AT THE GIOVANI AND AGAIN SECOND IN THE 2008 PREMIO TEATRO MASSIMO, PALERMO. IN THE SAME YEAR HE REAL- ITALO CALVINO. MALINATI IS HER SECOND NOVEL; Pages: 180 Pages: 180 IZED THE FILM IL MANOSCRITTO DEL PRINCIPE PRODUCED BY THE FIRST, LACASA, WAS PUBLISHED IN 2009 BY GIUSEPPE TORNATORE. HIS SECOND FILM, SOTTO FALSO Publication: January 2012 ELLIOT, AND WAS ONE OF THE TWELVE FINALISTS OF Publication: January 2012 NOME, STARRING DANIEL AUTEUIL, IS DATED 2002. Price: € TBD THE 2010 STREGA PRIZE. Price: € 11,00 6 7 franc_2011_Rights 23-09-2011 18:37 Pagina 8 FICTION BOMPIANI RIGHTS LIST PIETRANGELO BUTTAFUOCO NEW TITLE PAOLA CAPRIOLO NEW TITLE 2011 2012 The Wolf and the Moon Cain Il lupo e la luna Caino In Sicilian tradition the “cunti” were the fairy stories told by the elderly in the evening, with As in a piece of crime news, a disappearance, a suicide, a wealthy couple, a poor, devout, immi- the children arranged in a circle. Modern interpreter of this tradition, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco grant maid with psychic powers: a mysterious picture to reconstruct in order to find the culprit – tells the story of the life of Scipione il Cicalazadé, known in the Orient as Sinan Pascià and in if there is one....... the West, in his home town of Messina, as the Rinnegato (the Renegade). Captured by the Milagro, an immigrant who works in the house of a very wealthy couple, has disappeared. Pirates of Dragut at the age of twelve, Scipione is educated at the court of the Sultan, The Police investigate and, very soon, question her employers. But on arriving at the house, becomes the chosen one and is, therefore, nominated Commander of the Ottoman Armies all they find is the body of the owner who has hanged himself for no apparent reason; on the on sea and land. Midst battles, conquests, booties and glory, Sinan Pascià harbours in his computer screen, in the form of a farewell note, is a phrase from Genesis about Cain and heart nostalgia for his homeland, and for this reason he returns to the Long Land – Italy – in Abel. The Police try to reconstruct the incident. They discover that Milagro was a tormented Calabria and then Sicily. At Palermo, Scipione glimpses the other half of his destiny: a lady girl, afflicted by a sense of guilt for mysterious events that had happened to her that she did made Moon who engraves on his heart a graft from which love will germinate. But the bat- not want to confess to anyone. Her personality had intrigued Max, the man she worked for, tle cannot wait: Scipione must hoist the sails and head towards Messina where his brother is a successful marketing director, who had taken her side when his wife criticised her, who had ready to give the order to fire on him. So it’s battle – a long, crude battle between brothers. talked to her and realized that she talked to herself believing she was talking to someone. But an angry “Hooray!” salutes Scipione’s victory, and so he can make his way back up the Shortly before his wife and son went away on holiday, Max had discovered that Milagro was secret heart of Sicily and return, at last, to the arms of the Lady made Moon. And live with her even able to levitate – like a saint, or someone possessed. One evening, after following her forever: the Wolf and the Moon is a “cunto” but it’s also a true story. to a mass where they listened to a sermon about Cain and Abel, which upset her, and hav- ing witnessed Milagro being attacked in a park and done nothing to help her, Max lost it. Then the tragedy: Max kills her, Max’s wife hides the corpse but the next day the man can’t stand the sense of guilt and kills himself. Rights of her previous novel Il pianista muto have been sold to: Germany (Elke Heidenreich); Russia (Text Publishers) PIETRANGELO BUTTAFUOCO IS A JOURNALIST FOR “PANORAMA”, AND WORKED FOR “IL FOGLIO”.