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, Roberto Perrone At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 we are announcing the forthcoming books forthcoming the announcing are we 2012 BookFair Frankfurt the At Thatis whywe exportItalian writersabroad: even if translated, they en- - archi art, history, sights, Beautiful country. my with love in and Italian am I I am looking forward to seeing you in Frankfurt, have a good Fair, a good Fair, have in Frankfurt, seeing you to forward looking I am And the international bestsellers of the international And 8 – p. Mazzantini ◆ Margaret 14 – p. Carofiglio ◆ Gianrico 18 – p. G. Mazzucco ◆ Melania 22 Rea◆ Ermanno – p. 24 – p. Marino ◆ Ignazio 25 – p. Piccolo ◆ Francesco 26 – p. ◆ Grazia Verasani 28 – p. ◆ Lelio Luttazzi 29 – p. ◆ Ginevra Bompiani 30 – p. Polillo ◆ Marco 31 – p. Perotti ◆ Simone 32 – p. ◆ Sebastiano Mauri by by lighten our language, our culture and our roots, making us proud of them. of proud us making roots, our and culture our language, our lighten tecture, tecture, music, theater and cinema, exquisite food, wine, mild temperature. And wonderful have got writers. a We splendid language and an Italian way of writing – essays, poems, literature, commercial fictionand general non- recognized. worldwide identity, our of historyis art – and part which fiction, In Lovetaly I with (pages 2-6). (pages Tinagli gnini, Irene , Beatrice Masini Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 Fair Book Frankfurt 27J table 6.0, Hall (LitAg), Centre & Scouts Agents Literary The forthcoming Roberto Perrone Paola Mastrocola La cucina degli amori impossibili Paola Mastrocola has a very special voice among the Italian con- (The Cuisine of Impossible Loves) temporary writers and bestselling novelists. She has written poems, books for children and literary essays while teaching Italian litera- A village on the beautiful coast of Liguria, two restaurants in ruth- ture at high school: her daily relationship with students has become less competition, two families at war with one another, an impossible over the years an important aspect of her writing thanks to her per- love: the Montagues and Capulets confront each others in the kitchen. sonal point of view. Very sharp and brilliant, always sincere, able to When Rossella meets Augusto on her flight back from the look beyond reality and to nourish imaginary visions. to Italy, it’s love at first sight. But love is not so simple if your families Paola Mastrocola made her debut in fiction withLa gallina volante (The Flying Hen, 1999, Premio Calvino, Premio lead the two most famous restaurants in town and have been competitor Selezione Campiello, Premio Rapallo Carige). Her second novel Palline di pane (Bread Crumbs) was shortlisted at for decades. Like Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers will have to face hate, Premio Strega in 2001, while Una barca nel bosco (A Boat in the Forest) received the Premio Campiello in 2004. envy, resentment, passion... Surrounded by the sensual enjoyment for In 2005 she won the Camaiore Prize for poetry with the collection La felicità del galleggiante (The Happiness of food, with all its flavour and aroma, the destiny of the two families is in a the Float). Among her other books, Che animale sei? – Storia di una pennuta (Which Animal Are You?, 2005), Più lontana della luna (Further than the Moon, 2007), E se covano i lupi (And if Wolves Brood, 2008), the short novels secret ingredient for legendary Pansotti. Here lies the key to the strongly La narice del coniglio (The Rabbit Nostril, 2009) and Facebook in the rain (2011), and two highly successful narra- desired third Michelin star. tive pamphlets about Italian school – La scuola raccontata al mio cane (The School Explained to My Dog, 2004), and Details A novel, Mondadori 2013 Togliamo il disturbo (We’re Out of Here, 2011). Her books have been translated in France, Germany, Spain and Latin About the author Roberto Perrone was born in Rapallo in 1957 and lives in Milan since 1981. He writes America, Portugal, Turkey and Japan. about sport, food and travel for Corriere della Sera. He wrote the novels Zamora (2003), La lunga (The Long Night, 2007), Averti trovato ora (Now That I’ve Found You, 2008), La ballata dell’amore salato (The Ballad of Salty Love, 2009) and Occhi negli occhi (Eyes in the Eyes, 2011). www.robertoperrone.it @Perri57 Non so niente di te It all begins with the peaceful invasion of the Bal- Uncorrected proofs available by january 2013 (Knowing Nothing About You) liol College conference room in Oxford by dozens of sheep. They are following a young Italian econo- Paola Mastrocola’s new awaited novel will mist, who has been invited to expose a surprising Francesco Carofiglio be published by Einaudi in February 2013. theory that could change the destiny of the world. wok This is how Filippo Cantirami’s parents suddenly discover that they don’t know anything about their On the roads of Native America, a young boy searching for his future son: they believe he is studying in America but will discover his past. he’s in Oxford with his sheep, they try to meet him in London, while he is leaving for the Norwegian His name is Wok, he’s fifteen years old and has Navaho origins. Wok stands fjords. It happened that one day, studying in the for Wokaihwokomas, “white antelope”. He lives with his mother, a young library, Filippo saw a hornet, a buzzing and shiny woman with a ramshackle life, in a small town in East Texas. When he finds insect, and he thought for the first time at his own her lying on the ground, lifeless, he decides to leave, driving her old Dodge. He wants to join his grandfather in New Mexico, where he lives in a life, and what he really wanted for himself. nursing home, and take him back to the Navajo Reservation in North- A powerful contemporary novel about people’s ern Arizona. Wok must suddenly become an adult, with his mother’s dreams and expectations, an eloquent exploration voice at his side and her ashes in the dashboard. This is the story of a of time, vanishing and portentous, charismatic journey: through wide open spaces and solitude, through the life of a and engaging. fragile and courageous boy. ❝ An ironic master of suspect, Paola Mastrocola warns ❞ Details A novella, Piemme 2013 us about wrong ideas that pretend to be the right ones. About the author Francesco Carofiglio, born in Bari, published his first novel, With or Without You, in 2005, Tuttolibri followed by Cacciatori nelle tenebre (Hunters in the Dark, 2007), a graphic novel written with his brother Gianrico, ❝ Biting parables on our society. ❞ L’estate del cane nero (The Black Dog Summer, 2008), Ritorno nella valle degli angeli (Back to the Valley l’Unità of Angels, 2009, Premio Stresa 2010) and Radiopirata (Pirate Radio, 2011). @fracarofiglio ❝ One of the few Italian writers with a delightful Uncorrected proofs available by november 2012 and involving sense of humour. ❞ ❝ ❞ Corriere della Sera In Francesco Carofiglio’s stories there are always mysterious traces, obscure signs. ❝ Corriere del Mezzogiorno Paola Mastrocola loves her eternally bored students, ❝ ❞ perceiving delusions, desires, and hopes He knows how to handle epic. Il Riformista Uncorrected proofs available by hidden under their yawns. ❞ ❝ Hovering between irony and nostalgia. ❞ l’Unità december 2012 la Repubblica 2 3 forthcoming Beppe Severgnini Beatrice Masini

Beppe Severgnini is one of Italy’s best-known journalists. A columnist for Italy’s Beatrice Masini was born in Milan. She is a well-known and successful writer of leading newspaper Corriere della Sera and a contributor for Time magazine and books for children and teens, translated into over 20 languages, from Finnish to the Financial Times, he is the author of the New York Times bestseller La Bella Fi- Thai. She works as editorial director in an Italian publishing group and has been gura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind, and the national bestseller Ciao, America! translating important books as the Harry Potter saga by J.K. Rowling. An Italian Discovers the U.S. His books are translated worldwide. Among her works, La spada e il cuore. Donne della Bibbia (The Sword and the www.beppesevergnini.com @beppesevergnini Heart. Women in the Bible, 2003, Elsa Morante Ragazzi Award 2004); Signore e signorine. Corale greca (Ladies and Misses. Greek Choral, 2002, Pippi Award 2004). In 2004 she received the prestigious Andersen Prize as best children’s author of the year. Attempts for a Botany of Affection is her first novel for the adult readership.

ITALIANI DI DOMANI Tentativi di botanica (Tomorrow’s Italians) degli affetti (Attempts for a Botany of Affection) For the Italians of tomorrow, and for anybody else who cares about Italy’s future. A romantic and proud heroine in the Northern Italy of the nineteenth century, between the Tomorrow’s Italians is a compellingly practi- peacefulness of the countryside and the an- cal book: how to make it as Italians, stay out of nounced turmoil of the Italian Risorgimento. trouble and get on in the world. Italians are re- A sophisticated historical novel, deeply involv- sourceful, and are at their most ingenious when ing with its realistic, detailed style. their backs are to the wall. It’s the Italian Paradox. When the going gets tough, the Italians get going. 1820. After her father’s death, Bianca, a young This book is for anyone who wants to learn the and gifted watercolor artist, leaves her house on Italian lesson. There is a way, just find it. Garda Lake and moves to a country estate near Severgnini’s Bella Figura was a field guide to the Milan. The owner of the villa, a famous poet with mind of today’s Italians. Tomorrow’s Italians is a passion for experimental agriculture, commits Severgnini’s roadmap for the emerging nation. her an assignment: to portray all his exceptional Witty, bold and surprising. Like the Italians. botanic heritage. With a passionate spirit, she “A new generation is approaching a series of T- paints and explores the countryside, watching junctions. They have to decide which way to take and listening to all that happens around her and our country” says Severgnini. And he has few tips Details Details in the large family of , following a naive for younger Italians. Non-fiction, Rizzoli, October 2012 A novel, Bompiani 2013 curiosity that will bring her too far, in the terri- tory of secrets, of untold truths, and of love. And Foreign Rights Uncorrected proofs available by 1. Talent Be ruthless december 2012 that is a dangerous game, because the botany of 2. Tenacity Be patient Valerie Borchardt [email protected] affection is not an exact science. It has no rules 3. Timing Be ready and might become deeply misleading. 4. Tolerance Be flexible A wonderful read, an extraordinary reconstruc- 5. Totem Be fair tion of the search for freedom of a young woman 6. Tenderness Be gentle in the nineteenth century, Masini’s careful and 7. Territory Be open compelling storytelling brings her characters 8. Testa Be optimistic uniquely alive.

Beyond those junctions may not lie success. But what is within reach is a better life. And a better Italy. 4 5 Irene Tinagli

Irene Tinagli, born and raised in Italy, teaches Management and Organizations at the University Carlos III in Madrid. She received her PhD in Public Policy and Management from the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon Univer- sity in Pittsburgh, where she also earned her Master of Science in Public Policy. A former student and long-time collaborator of creativity guru Richard Florida (University of Toronto), Dr. Tinagli is the first scholar to apply Florida’s theories on creative class and regional development to European regions and cities. Her work has been featured in international journals and newspapers such as the Har- vard Business Review and the Financial Times. Tinagli also serves as an Expert for the European Commission on Creativity and Innovation and has been a con- sultant for the Department of Social and Economic Affairs of the United Nations, co-authoring the publicationUn - derstanding Knowledge Societies. On March 2010 she was appointed Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Columnist for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, she occasionally contributes to other newspapers and magazines such as El País, Wired Italy, la Repubblica, Il Sole 24 Ore, l’Espresso. Her first book isTalento da svendere (Talent on Sale, 2008). www.irenetinagli.ilcannocchiale.it @itinagli

TORNIAMO A VOLARE! Cogliere le opportunità nonostante la crisi (Taking Off Again! How to Recognize the Opportunities in Times of Crisis) Highlights

A book for the new generations and for all the people looking for new opportunities to build a successful professional future. From one of the most appreciated Italian economists, a detailed analysis of the factors affecting success in today’s global context, enriched by the extraordinary his- tories of young people who managed to find their way in the most different situations, becoming leaders in fields such as technology, culture and politics. In Tinagli’s analysis everyone can have a chance to a better professional future. What mat- ters is a new perspective that looks at what hap- pens beyond our courtyard and that allows us to better understand our own talent and the multi- ple opportunities to fully develop and leverage it. After all, times of crisis are often the best times to Details An essay, Rizzoli 2013 start all over again. Uncorrected proofs available by january 2013

❝ Never as in the years we are living, people have got so many possibilities to change not just their personal stories, but the whole world. ❞ Irene Tinagli 6 8 highlights ❞ humankind. of hope within deep the darkest and most desperate acts of ❝ Margaret Mazzantini sows, with a steady hand, the seed seed the hand, steady a with MargaretMazzantini sows, La StampaLa

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NESSUNO SI SALVA DA SOLO Venuto al mondo (No One Survives Alone) (Twice Born)

The everyday drama of love and disaffection in An international bestseller, a sweeping portrait a contemporary couple. The sentimental auto- of motherhood, loss and redemption. biography of a generation. Haunted by memories of Sarajevo’s four-year siege, Gemma boards a flight from her native A summer night at a table in a restaurant in Rome. Rome to the war-scarred city with her son Pietro. A young couple with too many responsibilities on She hopes to teach him about the country of his their shoulders: two children to take care of, re- birth and about Diego, the father he never knew. sentments and transgressions. Delia and Gaetano Now, a revelation awaits her – one that will force consider the possibility of starting over together her to face the full extent of her loss, the true hor- again. At the same time they are seduced by the ror of war and the redemptive power of love. unknown. Neither the passion that marked the Twice Born is now a major motion picture direc- beginning of their relationship nor the rage they ted by Sergio Castellitto, starring Penélope Cruz now feel have entirely subsided. & Emile Hirsch. Details Details A novel, Mondadori 2011, 192 pages A novel, Mondadori 2008, 530 pages Premio Campiello 2009 Foreign rights sold in France (Laffont), Germany (DuMont), Spain and Foreign rights sold in Latin America (Alfaguara), Israel (Kinneret), ❝ Delia and Gaetano are like two boxers ❝ It flows as smoothly as a sigh.❞ Albania (Ombra), Argentina (Lumen), Bosnia Russia (Azbooka), The Netherlands (Wereldbi- in a ring, stunned by the hate they feel for each Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Buybook), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), bliotheek), UK and USA (Oneworld), Turkey other - hate that in fact might be love, Bulgaria (Colibri), Colombia (Lumen), Croatia (Doğan), Serbia (Plato). ❞ (Algoritam), France (Robert Laffont, 10/18), but which they do not understand. ❝ Beautifully written and skilfully crafted. ❞ Germany (DuMont), Hungary (Cartaphilus), la Repubblica Publishers Weekly Israel (Kinneret), Latvia (Apgads Atena), Mexico (Grijalbo), The Netherlands (Wereldbi- ❝ A masterpiece on the deterioration ❝ A breathtaking story of love and war. ❞ bliotheek), Poland (Sonia Draga), Portugal ❞ (Bertrand), Romania (Polirom), Russia of perfection. Le Monde des Livres (Azbooka), Serbia (BeoBook), Slovenia Corriere della Sera (Mladinska Knjiga Zalozba), Spain-Castillan ❝ Vivid memories and powerful emotions… (Lumen, DeBolsillo), Spain-Catalan (Rosa dels ❝ Harshness as its stylish and moral issue. ❞ A stunning book. ❞ Vents), Turkey (Doğan), UK (Oneworld), USA (Viking Penguin). Tuttolibri Irish News

❝ Mazzantini’s depictions of love, maternal and romantic, are powerfully raw. ❞ Kirkus Review

❝ This stunning novel about the nature of grief, love and motherhood blew me away with the quality and depth of her haunting story. ❞ The Bookseller 10 11 highlights foreign editions

Venuto al mondo (Twice Born)

❝ This is a fictitious story, created by a writer’s imagination and subsequently elab- orated into a screenplay for film. The characters, their conflicts, what drives and frustrates them and what they desire, are all fictitious factors. Yet, it’s a true story. Because the war in Yugoslavia was so damn real. […] The film, or its ‘make-believe’, can’t ignore these truths. ❞ 12 Sergio Castellitto, Twice Born director 13 highlights

ph © Fabio Lovino © Fabio ph IL SILENZIO DELL’ONDA (The Silence of the Wave)

A new “reluctant hero of our times” by the award-winning creator of the Guido Guerrieri novels based in the beautiful Italian coastal town of Bari.

Walking for hours and hours in the centre of Rome and discovering the wonderful squares, streets, fountains, churches and gardens as for the first time, Roberto Marìas is finding himself again. He has been an undercover agent in South America, years before, dealing with cynical and corrupted people. Sitting twice a week in front of a psychiatrist he will slowly come to terms with his hidden memories. A woman on the run from Details her past and a child living in a world of dreams A novel, Rizzoli 2011, 300 pages will help him fighting his (and their) fears. Shortlisted at Premio Strega 2012

About the author Gianrico Carofiglio was born in 1961 in Bari, Apulia. He is the author of four novels featuring ❝ Carofiglio’s insights into human nature the character of defense lawyer Guido Guerrieri: ❞ Testimone inconsapevole (Involuntary Witness, – good and bad – are breathtaking. 2002), Ad occhi chiusi (A Walk in the Dark, Jeffery Deaver 2003), Ragionevoli dubbi (Reasonable Doubts, 2006) and Le perfezioni provvisorie (Temporary ❝ A novel distinguished by the natural gift Perfections, 2010). A former anti-Mafia prosecu- ❞ tor, Carofiglio is an expert in the investigation of prose, as smooth and silent as a perfect wave. of organized crime and related psychology. Corriere della Sera His other novels include Il passato è una terra straniera (The Past is a Foreign Country, 2004), ❝ If you need a label, that won the and has been ❞ adapted into an internationally awarded film, you can call it magic realism. and Né qui né altrove (Neither Here Nor Else- El Mundo where, 2009); in 2010 he published a collection of short stories, Non esiste saggezza (There is No Wisdom). His books have been translated into 24 languages worldwide. www.gianricocarofiglio.com ❝ ❞ ❝ ICitazionetaly’s best sull'autore exports now o sul include libro number-one Foreign rights sold in bestselling writer Gianrico Carofiglio. ❞ USA (Rizzoli International), UK (Bitter Lemon Nome Cognome Press), France (Seuil), Germany (Goldmann), Gay Talese Spain (Esfera de los libros). Film rights optioned. 15 highlights THE GUIDO GUERRIERI NOVELS Gianrico Carofiglio (foreign rights: Sellerio editore Palermo) Le perfezioni provvisorie (Temporary Perfections)

The fourth novel by international bestselling Italian writer Gianrico Carofiglio featuring de- fense lawyer Guido Guerrieri.

It all began with an unusual assignment, a job better suited for Marlowe than for defence coun- sel Guido Guerrieri. Could he find new evidence to force the police to reopen their investigation of the disappearance of Manuela, the daughter of a rich couple living in Bari? The stories of Manue- la’s druggy university friends don’t quite add up. Her best friend, Caterina, too beautiful and cer- tainly too young for Guerrieri, is a temptation he Involuntary Witness, 2002 A Walk in the Dark, 2003 Reasonable Doubts, 2006 Details doesn’t need. He fights his loneliness by talking A Guido Guerrieri novel - Sellerio 2010 to the punching bag hanging in his living room 336 pages, Premio Selezione Campiello and by walking the streets of Bari late at night, Foreign rights sold in activities that somehow lead to solving the riddle Czech Republic (Host), Denmark (HR Ferdi- of Manuela’s vanishing. nand), France (Seuil), Germany (Goldmann), The Netherlands (Prometheus), Poland (W.A.B.), ❝ A first-rate thriller, stylish, ❝ Every character in Carofiglio’s fiction has a story to tell Portugal (Porto Editora), Spain (Esfera de los Libros), UK (Bitter Lemon Press), USA (Rizzoli witty and suspenseful. ❞ and they are always worth hearing. ❞ International). Kathy Reichs Daily Mail

❝ A captivating, ❝ What places him in a superior league is the portrayal of a slice of Italian society not intellectual novel. ❞ normally encountered in and an immensely appealing flawed hero. ❞ The Times

❝ Carofiglio raises the standard for crime ❝ Guerrieri could have just gotten off an Alitalia flight from the land fiction. His deft touch gives stories that of Grisham or the Los Angeles of Michael Connelly’s . are both literary and gritty. ❞ Sharp writing will keep readers turning the pages. ❞ Jeffery Deaver Publishers Weekly

16 17 highlights 19 l’Espresso l’Espresso Il Sole 24 Ore Sole Il Süddeutsche Zeitung Süddeutsche an engaged intensity. ❞ intensity. engaged an Mazzucco’s narrative has has narrative ❝ Mazzucco’s The New York Times Book Review Book Times York New The as we haven’t been reading in years. ❞ years. in been reading haven’t we as is a great contemporary novel, novel, contemporary a great is ❝ Limbo

bo on the challenges we face in our own lives. ❞ lives. own face in our we the challenges on and great levity, drawing facts and characters characters facts and drawing levity, great and m with care, irony and emotional involvement. ❞ involvement. emotional and irony care, with … makes us reflect on responsibilities, responsibilities, on reflect us … makes ❝ Limbo Melania Mazzucco writes with epical strength strength epical with writes Mazzucco ❝ Melania Li Melania. Mazzucco G (Limbo) have have it or Theyou tocourage don’t. save other lonely lonely and hurt person, trying to come to terms people in danger, if you are at war, or the courage courage the or war, at are you if danger, in people to get in love with a man. a with love in get to on on the Mediterranean coast. She was the - com mander of a thirty-man platoon and she is now a now is she and platoon thirty-man a of mander unknown man is watching her. watching is man unknown ian ian Army – comes back from a military mission in the Afghan desert to her home town in Italy, with with her past. Every night, from his an balcony, Courage Courage is something you cannot teach. You A young female soldier – an officer of the - Ital

Details 2012, 484 pages March Einaudi, A novel, About the author in G. Mazzucco born was in Rome Melania 1996 in fiction in with debut her made 1966. She , followed Kiss) (Medusa’s Medusa della bacio Il , 1998) and Room (Baltus’s Baltus di La camera by novel , 2000). Her So Loved (She amata Lei così in 2003, became Strega the Premio received Vita Choice Review Book Editors’ Times York a New Top Weekly the Publishers selected was for and giorno Un novel The Books the Year. of Ten by followed , 2005), was Day (A Perfect perfetto painter Renaissance the Italian about works two dell’angelo attesa La lunga the novel Tintoretto: the essay , 2008) and Angel the for Wait Long (The Tintoretto (Jacomo figli e i suoi Tintoretto Jacomo invited frequently is , 2009). She Children His and uni- the major art at and literature on lecture to writes regularly and abroad, and in Italy versities books . Her Repubblica la of pages the cultural on in 23 countries. been translated have Foreign rights sold in sold rights Foreign - (Flamma France Straus), UK (Farrar USA and Latin America (Anagrama), and Spain rion), (Atlas-Contact). Netherlands The optioned. Film rights ph © Riccardo De Luca De Riccardo © ph El País o battles are lost as long as there are books like the ones ones the like books are there as long as lost are battles o N ❝ ❞ Mazzucco. Melania by written highlights Melania G. Mazzucco a selection of foreign editions IL BASSOTTO E LA REGINA VITA (Plato and the Queen) un GIORNO PERFETTO La LUNGA ATTESA A Christmas tale, a story of love and friendship DELL’ ANgelo about the strength and purity of feelings - concerning animals and their human owners.

Plato is a dachshund who loves singing, he is kind of a poet, brave as a tiger. The Queen is a proud Afghan greyhound with oblique eyes. The Queen is kept prisoner by cruel smugglers and Plato would risk his own life to get her free- dom. A love affair between the two of them seems impossible, but nothing is impossible in fairy tales – and maybe not only there, because “appearance is just a chance, the soul is our des- tiny”. A tender and deep story told by a perrot, who is sitting on a tree and understands all the Details Einaudi, November 2012, 106 pages languages of the world. A wonderful and mov- Illustrations by Alessandro Sanna ing tale, about the courage of dreaming and the beauty of travelling.

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Ermanno Rea

1960. Io reporter (I, Reporter)

“Photography has been a real passion for me, so intense, even if it lasted a short while. My Leica camera has been my life jacket in a season of political disillusion – we are speaking of a time, at the end of the Fifties, when public and private life was just the same thing: the doubts, the contradictions, the unanswered questions about the remains of the communist dream marked my generation. I was a young man in his thirties and I didn’t want to betray my ideas. That’s why I decided to quit journalism. I preferred to become a globetrotter photographer.”

Ermanno Rea, born in Naples in 1927, is one of the most influential Details Italian writer and intellectual. His political and civic involvement has A photographic book, Feltrinelli, October 2012 always been part of his life, as his many books testify. But this wonderful 240 pages, over 200 black and white photos About the author photographic book shows his special talent in substituting words with Among Ermanno Rea’s books, Il Po si racconta (1990), images, catching the deep sense of the reality around him. From Na- L’ultima lezione (1992), Mistero napoletano (1995, ples’ narrow streets to the Dublin of Joyce, from Sevilla orange trees to Premio Viareggio 1996), Fuochi fiammanti a un’hora the Nepalese villages through an unseen Che Guevara in Algeria, faces, di notte (1998, Premio Campiello 1999), La dismissione (2002), Napoli Ferrovia (2007, shortlisted for Premio bodies, trees, houses, gatherings of people and solitude, are enlightened Strega 2008), La fabbrica dell’obbedienza (2011) and by his human and poetic understanding. La comunista (2012).

22 23 highlights Carlo Maria Martini Francesco Piccolo Ignazio Marino Momenti di Credere e conoscere trascurabile felicità (Believing and Knowing) (Moments of Negligible Happiness)

Civil rights, in vitro fertilization, euthanasia: A witty phenomenology of joyful living, an a man of science and a man of faith discuss international bestseller. over the most critical ethical issues of our time. Is it possible to be happy about other people un- One of Italian highest spiritual authorities meets happiness? What does Francesco Piccolo mean a world-renowned surgeon committed to human when he describes with his wonderful way of rights. In an open-minded, rational dialogue, writing – part literature, part humor, part self- they discuss about many of modernity’s most sig- analysis – his personal Moments of Negligible nificant ethical issues and questions that touch Happiness? Moments that nest anywhere, ready our daily lives, spacing from human reproduc- to pounce – moments that open your eyes to a tion to in vitro fertilization and embryonic stem section of life not previously acknowledged. cell research, from celibacy among priests to gay A merciless catalogue of the usually unmention- rights. One important chapter is about the end of able pleasures, tics and fragilities that are familiar Details life: in defending human dignity is there a time to all of us, sooner or later. Details An essay, Einaudi, March 2012, 84 pages and place for euthanasia, after all? Einaudi 2010, 136 pages

About the authors About the author Jesuit, Biblicist, and Archbishop of Milan from Francesco Piccolo was born in Caserta in 1964 1979 to 2002, Carlo Maria Martini became a ❝ Piccolo has published delightful books. and lives in Rome. He has written award-win- Cardinal in 1983. Since then he has been regarded ❞ ning works for cinema, theater, and radio, and is as one of the most influential and enlightened Now he has surpassed himself. a columnist for Corriere della Sera and l’Unità. leaders of the Catholic Church. His books El Ideal Gallego Among his books, Scrivere è un tic. include Vivere i valori del Vangelo (1996) and I metodi degli scrittori (1994), Storie di primo- La domanda di giustizia (with G. Zagrebelsky, ❝ Piccolo’s comic indulgence is just geniti e figli unici (1996, 2012), E se c’ero, dormivo 2003). His death in August 2012 has been accom- ❞ (1998), Il tempo imperfetto (2000), Allegro panied by a deep mourning, in Italy and abroad. as precise as his comic ruthlessness. occidentale (2003), L’Italia spensierata (2007), Ignazio Marino has worked as a surgeon in the la Repubblica La separazione del maschio (2008). USA and the United Kingdom. He became a Senator of the Italian Republic in 2006. His works ❝ A book of wicked truths, and unjustified yet Foreign rights sold in include Credere e curare (Believing and Healing, France (Denoël), Germany (Insel), 2005) and Nelle tue mani (In Your Hands, 2009). authentic pleasures. Small and private, Spain (Anagrama), The Netherlands www.ignaziomarino.it @ignaziomarino but also universal. ❞ (Wereldbibliotheek), Russia (Corpus), Vanity Fair Bulgaria (Ciela). ❝ The teaching of one of the greatest spiritual authorities of our time. ❞ Corriere della Sera

❝ In the presence of Cardinal Martini, even non-believers understand that exploring the territory of spirituality is a real challenge for their intelligence. ❞ la Repubblica 24 25 highlights Grazia Verasani

Cosa sai della notte

ph © Mirella Malaguti © Mirella ph (What Do You Know About the Night)

Many people know the warm aspect of the beautiful city of Bologna, with its special Ital- ian flavour, students and teachers and artists and musicians all over the place, good food and generous wine. But not so many people have ever experienced its ambiguous side: “a journey deep into the night”.

Because the night belongs to lovers, because the night belongs to lust. Patty Smith’s words sound so real to detective Giorgia Cantini when she finds herself investigating the cold case of Oliver – a young homosexual, bloody beaten and killed in a suburban field three years be- Details fore. She will have to face a hidden world made A hard-boiled novel, Feltrinelli of prostitution, dark rooms and bleak parks; September 2012, 224 pages she will meet the people of the night, discover- About the author ing lies, betrayals, frozen emotions. But Gior- Grazia Verasani was born and lives in Bologna. gia is not afraid of watching into the dark, her A writer, screenwriter and musician, she wrote eyes wide open. the successful mystery novel Quo vadis Baby? (2004) which has been turned into a film by the Oscar awarded director Gabriele Salvatores and into a popular TV series. The main character, ❝ Peculiar, restless, melancholic but the female detective Giorgia Cantini, is back full of life, Giorgia Cantini is one of us. ❞ in Velocemente da nessuna parte (Fast and No- la Repubblica where, 2006), Di tutti e di nessuno (Everybody’s and Nobody’s, 2009). She also wrote the novel ❝ Tutto il freddo che ho preso (So Cold I Felt, 2008) The investigation of the gay world becomes and the successful drama From Medea (2004), a reflection on love, on the impossibility of being that became a movie by Fabrizio Cattani under a couple, a sharp invective against the injuries of the title Maternity Blues (2011; two Globi d’Oro fake role models in this country. ❞ Awards, Best Screenplay Award at Bari Interna- D la Repubblica delle Donne tional Film Festival 2012 and at the Alexandria Mediterranean Film Festival 2012). The Giorgia Cantini’s novels have been translated in France and in Germany. ❝ Clarice Starling by Thomas Harris, Kay Scarpetta by www.graziaverasani.it , private detective Giorgia Cantini @graziaverasani by Grazia Verasani: hard-boiled fiction is a female genre. ❞

Carlo Lucarelli foreign editions for Grazia Verasani 26 27 highlights Lelio Luttazzi Ginevra Bompiani

L’erotismo di Oberdan Baciro LA STAZIONE TERMALE (Oberdan Baciro’s Erotism) (The Spa)

Between the Fascism and the war, the joyful Four women in a Spa, their fears, desires and and humorous sexual education of a young boy secrets in a subtle and deep reflection on the in the provincial town of Trieste. passing of time.

By the Italian king of swing, the hilarious story of Two couples of women are spending their holi- the young Oberdan Baciro, and of his uncontrol- day in a thermal Spa: a little girl with her aunt, lable sexual impetus. Only son of a widow, devot- and two old friends. The Spa is a place where all ed to God and to Mussolini, the young Oberdan women have something in common, even if they is one of those human beings whose destiny is don’t know each other: loneliness, a wound from revealed at the youngest age. A slightly lifted hem the past, a disease (“the adventure of old people”), or a light skin glow are enough to turn Oberdan’s the dream of beauty, no matter how painful to curiosity into an obsession. So he spends his reach. It’s a world reserved to women where men youth around this fleeting image, faithful to the are excluded, but their presence is somehow al- worship of women’s mystery. While Italy is run- ways there. At the end of the holiday everyone ning toward a disastrous war, Oberdan Baciro goes back home, with the same wrinkles, but Details clumsily goes on dancing with desire, until the maybe a little changed. Details A novel, Einaudi mocking last act. A novella, Sellerio editore Palermo March 2012, 166 pages March 2012, 120 pages

About the author About the author Lelio Luttazzi (1923-2010), one of the most ❝ ❝ Ginevra Bompiani was born in Milan. famous Italian jazz performers, a brilliant Ironic, cynic maybe, but sentimental. An exemplary tale, with an idea ❞ She has been teaching at the University of Siena composer and a sophisticated artist, sharp and In this book Lelio takes revenge of literature echoing Henry James. and since 2002 she is editorial director of ironical, became also very popular as a show- of the kid who lived inside himself. ❞ Tuttolibri nottetempo editions in Rome. A writer, man, making the history of Italian television. Franca Valeri a translator and an essayist, among her works After his death, his widow discovered he had left ❝ Le specie del sonno (1975), Spazio narrante some typescripts, that nobody had read before. Somehow Robert Walser, somehow ❝ ❞ (1978), L’incantato (1987), L’attesa (1988), Among the papers, this erotic novel that Einaudi One of the most lively character Virginia Woolf, but most of all herself. L’orso maggiore (1994), L’età dell’argento (2001), published posthumous, with great success and in twentieth century Italian fiction. ❞ l’Unità Il ritratto di Sarah Malcolm (2005). critical acclaim. Il Piccolo Her books have been translated in France, ❝ Ginevra Bompiani knows how to carry us Germany and Spain. ❝ ❞ A real surprise, absolutely captivating. into spoken and unspoken feelings, Foreign rights sold in Corriere della Sera on a cultured, refined perspective. ❞ France (Liana Levi) Internazionale ❝ It’s like a swing composition, nourished by an open mind. ❞ ❝ A female story, fine and intense, with men that Blow-Up are shadows, ghosts, once loved and hated, however out of today’s life. ❞ ❝ In the great literary tradition of the erotic Corriere della Sera novels of the twentieth century, it could also be read by nowadays teenagers, ❝ In Bompiani’s novella, the style creates the tale, inspiring their sentimental education.” ❞ and not vice versa. ❞ Il Tempo Avvenire 28 29 highlights Marco Polillo Simone Perotti

Simone Perotti was born in Frascati (Rome) in 1965. A novelist and an expert VILLA TRE PINI sailor, he is the Italian pioneer of downshifting and the author of Adesso basta (Villa Three Pines) (2009), a longselling book on the subject of changing our way of living, followed by the successful sequel Avanti tutta (2011). Among his latest novels, Uomini senza vento (2010) and L’equilibrio della farfalla (2012). Together with Paolo Er- A villa with a lakeview, a placid Christmas mani, he also wrote the pamphlet Ufficio di scollocamento (2012). holiday, a guest with a mysterious past: a new www.simoneperotti.com case for inspector Zottìa. L’EQUILIBRIO DELLA FARFALLA Inspector Enea Zottìa is even more involved with (The Butterfly Balance) his new love, Serena, and he accepts to join her A Mediterranean Noir, Garzanti, May 2012, 360 pages in a splendid villa on the enchanting hills around After Drifting Men, a new sea adventure for Renato Reis, the young man who decided to Lake Maggiore, where she is spending Christmas quit his brilliant job as a manager in Milan to become a full-time skipper. Sailing back holidays with some friends. Everything seems to La Spezia, in the beautiful Thyrrenian sea, Renato sees a mysterious light sinking in to flow quiet and placid, until a night one of the the waves. After a while, a body is found in the water. Renato gets involved in a series guests is found dead in his room. With his pe- of incredible events, moving around pirate ships, ancient castles, an illegal immigrants trade from North Africa. He will be facing risks and dangers, along his way to freedom. culiar method, following his feelings, Zottìa will find out that some mysteries are deep-rooted and UOMINI SENZA VENTO started a long way off. (Drifting Men) Details A Mediterranean Noir, Garzanti 2010, 290 pages A crime-novel, Rizzoli Awarded at Premio Carlo Marincovich – Cultura del mare 2010 September 2012, 306 pages ❝ A noir written with passionate involvement, in a speedy, intriguing style. ❞ About the author Corriere della Sera Marco Polillo was born in Milan and, after A manager with a brilliant career in Milan, Renato Reis is spending a few days in a career in publishing, he created his own the peaceful Ponza, when he finds himself involved in an overwhelming adventure, publishing house, Polillo Editore, specialized in crime literature. He is the President of the Italian through the Mediterranean sea. Publishers Association. He wrote three more ADESSO BASTA novels with the character of inspector Zottìa, ❝ Enea Zottìa is a first rate policeman, Testimone invisibile (Invisible Witness, Piemme (Stop It Now. How to Quit Work and Change Your Life) a great romantic, a little big Gatsby. ❞ 1997, 2010), Corpo morto (Dead Body, Piemme Chiarelettere 2009, 190 pages 2009) and Il pontile sul lago (The Pier on the Sette Lake, Rizzoli 2011). ❝ The first Italian guide to quit your job and change your life without following impossible utopias. ❞ Corriere della Sera Downshifting is a social phenomenon which involves millions of people all around the world. Starting a revolution means changing ourselves, our habits, duties, and ways of consumption by taking back our lives to be finally free. Il pontile sul lago (The Pier on the Lake) AVANTI TUTTA (Full Speed Ahead) A crime-novel, Rizzoli 2011, BUR 2012, 280 pages Chiarelettere 2011, 208 pages When a retired Latin professor is found dead in a quiet lakeside village in Northern Italy, the secrets come spilling out. ❝ The guru of downshifting. ❞ la Repubblica ❝ A classic mystery novel, Agatha Christie-style, but with no bloodshed.❞ Corriere della Sera We can do it. Downshifting is a viable choice. And now? Supported by his own ex- ❝ A well constructed, enjoyable, page-turning novel. ❞ perience and his last years on the loose, Perotti tells us “how to live as outsider” and il Venerdì unmasks all the prejudices, drawing the identikit of the contemporary man in revolt. 30 31 Sebastiano Mauri

Sebastiano Mauri was born in Milan in 1972. Half Italian, half Argentinian, he has lived and worked between Milan, New York and Buenos Aires. He has graduated with honors from New York University with a BA in Film and TV and for his short films he has won the Warner Brothers Award and the Martin Scor- sese Post-Production Award. He has studied fine arts at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London and the Art Students League in New York. His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world. Enjoy the Problem is his first novel. www.sebastianomauri.com

Goditi il problema (Enjoy the Problem)

The comedy of love of a serial single, on the road to monogamy.

New York City. One morning Martino wakes up in an unknown bed, a man and a woman by his side. No idea where he is and how he arrived there. That’s a good occasion for him to question his life, from a wild childhood in a village in Northern Italy, raised by an ex- travagant, radical-chic family, to his troubled discovery of sex. Caustic and irreverent, full of adventures and contradictions, Enjoy the Problem is the compelling debut of a talented video-artist.

Details ❝ A perfect balance between comedy and A novel, Rizzoli, June 2012, 306 pages melancholy, sharp wit and ingenuous foolishness. A well-chosen and very uncommon style for an Italian novel. ❞ la Repubblica

❝ ‘Bright Stars, Big City ten years later’ could be the slogan for this debut novel. ❞ La Stampa

❝ Post-juvenile and post-gay, Enjoy the Problem is a real camp novel. ❞ l’Espresso

❝ Between trouble and humorism, with a soft tone. ❞ Corriere della Sera 32 Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze E ditoriali Milano, Italy

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