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2 0 18 F R a Nk F U R T H Ig H L Ig H 2018 FRANKFURT HIGHLIGHTS International Literary & Film Agency 52. Enrico Pandiani FICTION Lezioni di tenebra NON-FICTION 4. Ernesto Aloia 54. Enrico Pandiani 78. Roberto Brunelli Troppo Piombo La vita riflessa Angela Merkel 6. Kae Bahar Ivan56. Enrico Pandiani Letters from a Kurd Les Italiens 89. Emanuele Coco Il circolo elettrico delle sirene 8. Dimitar Baševski 58. Paola Presciuttini The Circle La mannaia Baio 80. Lauretta Colonnelli 10. StefanoIvan BonBaio I SEGRETI60. Paola DI Presciuttini TWILIGHT 50 quadri. Che tutti Trotula conoscono. Davvero? mancaLa ragazza bio chemanca andò all’inferno bio manca bio THE SECRETS OF TWILIGHT 12. Alex Boschetti 62. Aleksandar Prokopiev 81. Lauretta Colonnelli mancaUn interminabile bio manca inverno Homunculus 50 donne. I pittori di fronte The Twilight saga tied to the fascinating all’animotheme femminile.of the bio manca bio Etruscan mysteries for the very first time. A suggestive 14. Shay Charka mancaJudissea bio manca itinerary through64. Idanna the Puccievocative sceneries82. of Marco ancient De Angelis The Trials of Maria Barbella bio manca bio Tuscany. Filosofia per tutti. Manifesto manca16. Giorgio bio manca Dell’Arti filosofico per il popolo europeo Bibbia pagana The author takes66. Idanna us on Puccia trip through Tuscany, through the settings bio manca bio The Island That Is No More manca bio manca of Twilight, and through the deep and mysterious84. Giorgioreasons Dell’Arti that 18. Aminata FofanaNew Storia di adesso La bioluna mancache mi seguiva bio brought a young68. Francesca writer from Riario rainy Sforza Seattle to write about the ancient Io, Caterina manca bio manca city of Volterra. In Twilight, an old story is told 86.once Daniel again. Haber A tale 20.bio Laura manca Freudenthaler bio about the religions of the woods, about the treesLes surprisesand the dewild l’economie Die Königin schweigt 70. 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Abdullah Khan 102. Terence Ward Patna Blues Searching for Hassan LITERARY 34. Ally KleinNew 106. Terence Ward Carter The Guardian of Mercy 36. Oshrat Kotler Ija Mia! 38. Emanuela Mascherini Alice senza meraviglie 40. Gianluca Morozzi Gli annientatori FICTION 42. Gharbi M.Mustafa What Comes with the Dust Goes with the Wind Rights46. Sacha sold Naspini Le case del malcontento Italy CONTENTS ANTHROPOLOGY|ADVENTURE 48. Yinon Nir The LastTunué, Soldier 2006 50. Enrico Pandiani Bestselling series feat. Chief Mordenti NON-FICTION Rights LA VITA RIFLESSA F|5 Rights sold IO & DAVIDE Italysold MIRRORED LIFE PiemmesoldItaly DAVID & I ItalyBompiani Rizzoli RiseA STUDENT and KfallILL Sof H ERa SkingELF BUT of LtheIVES tvON screen., ON-LINE, TWO FRIENDS START OVER Film AGAIN AFTER THE LEHMAN BROTHERS CRACK, INVENTING A SOCIAL NETWORK IN WOrlandoHICH N Ois O beautifulNE CAN “ andDISA PPEdesirable.AR” FOREVER Since he was an adolescent, «A work of he has always used his perfect body for money and for ambition neither casual nor without any principle, till he finally reaches the “throne” of a evident symbolic famousA lost humanity tv programme. can no longer experience relationships entailing connections confrontation and goes in search of passports to eternity. that embrace Accompanied by an ambiguous companion, his friend Davide, literature as a the new King will ride success following a script written for him. «Mirrored Life is the book with which Ernesto Aloia delivers the manifesto whole and are But the path that Orlando will have to follow is full of obstacles of a possible change of direction in personal identity, in a territory where handled artfully and temptations: fleeting one night stands, alcohol and drug by the author, in human intelligence is already sharing its space with an AI, with the not abuse, moving in a corrupt world, grotesque and absurd a prose whose so remote – and not so science-fictional – risk of sooner or later being situations, existential conflicts and a dreadful and unspeakable rhythm of which replaced by it. never slackens, past that returns to haunt him. Mirrored Life is an open novel striking for the author’s clear and vivid for a novel in At the end of his journey, Orlando will witness, in live reconstructive ability to bring to life the eternal questions of humankind: a non-invasive broadcasting, the fall of all his delusive certainties and, in “who are we? where do we come from?” to which he adds his personal dystopic vein that an ending permeated with self-destructive raving, he will be touches on the “and where are we going?”, which somehow represents a sinful and Ernesto Aloia consumed just like one of the products he advertises. theme of identity selfish yearning for eternity. There are pages in which the reader must was born in Belluno in the clash delve into hyper-hi-tech language for experts, but it all stillpp. flows 156 with in 1965, but has with the digital extreme passion across the story of the long-lost friends – the narrator always lived and world. Topical Marco and the Italian-American Greg Lamberti – reunited by fate after worked in Turin. For questions are over thirty years. Fate is represented by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Minimum Fax he has asked of society “…clever under every aspect…his style leaves you with your a dramatic moment that changed Western financial – and not only – published two short by characters who mouth open” Mauro Marcialis balances. So Greg and Marco are reunited, and Greg’s dream happens story anthologies: do not seem taken Altervista born in Rome in 1972, from a bogus little to coincide with the failure of the bank for which Marco works operating Chi si ricorda di Peter is a senior internal sociology treaties, a few illicit speculations. Times have changed, you have to invent your Szoke? (2003) and revenue officer in a defect of many own future, and Greg’s idea becomes a passport to that future, in Sacra fame dell’oro Reggio Emilia, his of our novels. which, using old software and with the financial help of an enigmatic (2006). For Rizzoli, Ernesto adoptive home town. Here is a good meddler, Danilo Serra, the two old friends bring to life a social network Aloia he has published I contemporary This is his second of the utmost relevance, breaking the patterns and cancelling the moral LITERARY compagni di fuoco author. It is such novel, after La qualms that have kept human kind away from their very dehumanization and for Minimum a relief to write Strada della Violenza up to now. This “deep acting” social network, Twins, is sold to a large Fax Paesaggio con these words that (Street of Violence tech group, thus becoming the first true eternal projection of human life, Incendio. we fear he is an – Colorado noir, avatar. No, his where each and all can dialogue with themselves through acquaintance The disenchanted Mondadori, 2006). name is Ernesto parameters amplified by the virtual program. It may seem like a tech- mood of some Aloia.» fiction novel, but Aloia’s truly exemplary skill lies in the melancholy and descriptions and the often defeated everyday life through which the various characters roam, widespread sense ALEssANDRO BERETTA in a dimension of cautious and fearful passage from a past in which of disillusion could IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA humanity is still searching for itself, to a future where existence in no evoke the name of longer necessary because – and this is the tragedy unwittingly caused the French Michel FICTION by the social network – people will be able to live beyond themselves. Houellebecq, as The inexplicable suicide of a student is the example of how the discovery well as Jonathan is turning into the very negation of pain and loss, because the girl is still Franzen’s and Don living on a screen that, based on data that is constantly updated, projects DeLillo’s works. her into a future of inexistent gestures, actions, and experiences, which are also somehow true, because nothing can halt the eternalization of a virtual life. Finally a good modern novel, true, inspired, between foggy memories of the 20th century and an artificial, impersonal future that may cancel out the last glimmers of human sentiment.» SERGIO PENT - TUTTOLIBRI, LA STAMPA All Rights LETTERS FROM A KURD F|7 Rights sold IO & DAVIDE Italyavailable Piemme Letters fromDAVID a Kurd &is aI remarkable book about a young Kurdish Riseboy growing and fall up of in a Kurdistan king of thein Iraq tv inscreen. the 1980s. 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