BOMPIANI SPRING RIGHTS LIST 1929_2019 1 Spring 2019 rights list 2 BOMPIANI FICTION HIGHLIGHTS Andrea Camilleri Now Tell Me All About You 8 Giulia Caminito A Day Will Come 9 Paola Capriolo Marie and Herr Mahler 10 Bianca Pitzorno The Dream of the Sewing Machine 11 Lidia Ravera Enduring Love 12 Flavio Soriga In My Veins 13 FICTION Emanuele Altissimo Light Stolen from the Day 14 Mario Baudino Mussolini’s Violin 15 Guido Barbujani Everything Else Is Temporary 16 Gianfranco Calligarich Last Summer in Town 17 Mario Fortunato Berlin Voices 18 Loredana Lipperini Black Magic 19 Salvatore Maira I Was a Stranger 20 Edoardo Nesi The Story of My People 21 Roberto Pazzi Towards Saint Helena 22 Antonio Scurati M – Son of the Century 23 MODERN Corrado Alvaro Man is Strong 24 CLASSICS Alberto Moravia Two Women 25 Alberto Moravia The Conformist 26 Guido Piovene The Furies 27 Guido Piovene Italian Journey 28 BOMPIANI NON FICTION BOMPIANI NON FICTION REFLECTING Guido Barbujani The Invention of Human Races 31 ILLUSTRATED Giancarlo Ascari Bridges, Not Walls 51 ON OUR TIME TITLES Stefano Bartezzaghi Banality. Commonplaces, Social 32 Pia Valentinis Networks, Semiotics Umberto Eco History of Beauty 52 Andrea Dusi How to Fail at Funding a Start-up and 33 History of Ugliness 52 Be Happy The Vertigo of the List 52 The Book of Legendary Lands 53 NARRATIVE Francesco De Carlo My Brexit 34 NON FICTION Eleonora Matarrese The Wild Cook Roberta Scorranese Take Me Where You Were Born. 35 54 Going back to Abruzzo Simone Perotti Atlas of the Mediterranean Islands 55 BOOKS Mario Baudino Don’t You Know Who I Am? 36 ON BOOKS Sergio Risaliti Gustav Klimt ª56 Giampiero Mughini Oh, the Wonderful Smell of Books! 37 Alessandra Sarchi Happiness of Images, Weight of Words 38 BOMPIANI YOUTH BOOKS BIOGRAPHIES Nicola Attadio Where the Wind Is Born. Life of Nellie Bly 39 Renato Minore Rimbaud 40 CHILDREN Mario Bellini Design Explained to Children 59 & YA Luca Scarlini The Last Queen of Florence 41 Chiara Carminati Out of Focus 60 Gaia Servadio The Most Famous Italian in the World. 42 Life and Adventures Nicola Cinquetti The Giro of 1944 61 of Giovanni Battista Belzoni Paolo Di Paolo Daddy Gugol 62 PHILOSOPHY Francesco Tomatis The Mountain Way 43 Luca Doninelli The Detective Wickson Alieni 63 RELIGION Carlo Maria Martini To Be a Neighbour 44 Umberto Eco Three Tales 64 SPIRITUALITY Eugenio Carmi Alberto Porro How to Survive the Catholic Church 45 Without Losing Your Faith 65 Alberto Moravia Prehistory Stories The Little Kingdom 66 MODERN & Roberto Finzi A Short History of the Jewish Question 46 Wu Ming 4 CONTEMPORARY HISTORY Caterina Roggero History of Independent North Africa 47 Nadia Terranova Homer Was Here 67 Vanna Vinci NATURE Tiziano Fratus Jonah of the Sequoias 48 John Steinbeck Letter to Thom about Love 68 Shout ART & DESIGN Mario Bellini Travels, Objects and Projects 49 Beppe Tosco The Owl and the Girl 69 Zosia Dzierzawska SCIENCE Giovanni Caprara An Italian History of Space 50 Alessandra Valtieri The Silk Princesses 70 Fiction BOMPIANI HIGHLIGHTS Andrea Camilleri HIGHLIGHTS Giulia Caminito Now Tell Me All about You A Day Will Come ORA DIMMI DI TE UN GIORNO VERRÀ Camilleri has written his most intimate about him when she grows up. That’s why A little village in central Italy at the to the mysterious force that holds them book: a letter to his great-granddaughter to he writes this letter, wittily and sincerely beginning of the 20th century. Two together. Zari was born in Sudan, forcedly tell her who he is, to hold hands with her recalling a whole life, enlightning the brothers and a black nun. The winds of kidnapped as a child and converted: very across time. moments that made him who he is. From change blowing fast. A gripping novel, few people know that is the origin of “la a theatre show in front of the Fascist full of hope and courage. Moretta”, the little black one, the abbess What will last of us, in the memories hierarch Pavolini and a mafia massacre in of the cloistered convent of Serra, who of those who loved us? How will our Porto Empedocle to the encounters with Lupo and Nicola Ceresa are born at the with her music and strength is the polestar life be told to our descendants? his future wife Rosetta and with Elvira very beginning of the 20th century, last sons of the whole community. The winds of Andrea Camilleri is writing when his Sellerio, each episode is a way of talking to the baker of the little village of Serra change are blowing too hard: socialist and great-granddaughter Matilda comes about what makes life worth of living: de’ Conti, in the Marche region. Their life anarchic ideals open up the boys’ eyes, and in and starts playing under the table. He roots, love, friends, politics, literature is tough, just like everyone else’s in their then the Red Week of 1914, the Great realizes he doesn’t want others to tell her and doubt. village of miserable farmers who watch War, the Spanish Flu... For Lupo, Nicola their children die one by one. Rebel Lupo and “la Moretta” everything is bound to and frail Nicola manage to survive, thanks change. ANDREA CAMILLERI GIULIA CAMINITO was born in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, in 1925. He devoted himself was born in Rome in 1988. She graduated in Political Philosophy vivid personality, well known throughout the Italian communities to theatre and wrote many books, such as the ones dedicated to at Roma Tre University. Her mother is an author of books for in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her first book, La grande A, was Commissario Montalbano, which made him famous worldwide. children. Her father, a writer as well, is originally form Asmara published in 2016. and his grandmother and grandfather met in Assab. Her great- grandmother drove a truck, sold contraband alcohol and was a ENGLISH SAMPLE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE ENGLISH SAMPLE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE WINNER OF THE 2017 BAGUTTA PRIZE WITH Rights sold: Greek (Patakis); German (Kindler); Spanish LA GRANDE A. (Salamandra); Catalan (Edicions 62); Arabic (Madarek) THE SPIRITUAL TESTAMENT OF A GREAT INTELLECTUAL. FOR WEEKS IN THE BEST SELLER LIST. BOMPIANI FICTION Pages: 112 BOMPIANI FICTION Pages: 240 RIGHTS LIST HIGHLIGHTS Publication: September 2018 RIGHTS LIST HIGHLIGHTS Publication: February 2019 Price: e 14,00 Price: e 16,00 8 9 HIGHLIGHTS Paola Capriolo HIGHLIGHTS Bianca Pitzorno Marie and Herr Mahler The Dream of the Sewing Machine MARIE E IL SIGNOR MAHLER IL SOGNO DELLA MACCHINA DA CUCIRE A great composer harbouring a deep admirers but knowing Gustav has finally Bianca Pitzorno’s grandmother taught town, who defends the job that makes sorrow. A young girl opening her eyes onto found peace after years of interior struggle. her how to embroid and to sew and, as her independent, and spends her time in the world. A hut in the woods where to She is Marie, the young daughter of the she didn’t use a thimble, predicted she’d the sewing rooms of upper class houses. rediscover silence and music together. owner of the Bauernhof where Mahler become an ungovernable woman. Bianca She’ll soon discover she is the involuntary spent his last three summers. Marie, still kept on like that, sewing her stories recipient of all the hidden secrets of those 1911. Just a few months before premiering a child and yet a woman, was his little eccentricly and bravely. In her latest families, way more gripping than any his incredible Ninth Symphony, Gustav servant when he retired to the hut in novel the protagonist is a day seamstress, feuilleton. But a day will come when she Mahler dies in Vienna. He is only 51. At the middle of the woods to compose his born at the end of 19th century in a small will live as a protagonist, too. the same time, in a village in the Tyrolean masterpiece. The two developed a special mountains, a girl watches over him from relationship. Marie could be the only one afar, grieving as the most ardent of his to have understood him. PAOLA CAPRIOLO BIANCA PITZORNO (Milan, 1962) debuted in 1988 with La grande Eulalia, a collection viaggiatore. Her works were awarded many important prizes and was born in Sassari, Sardinia, in 1942. Since 1970 she’s published col falcone (1982), Speciale Violante (1989), Ascolta il mio cuore of short stories, and wrote Il nocchiero, Il doppio regno, Vissi were translated in many countries. She is also an essayist and a about 50 books both of fiction and non-fiction, of adult and (1991), Re Mida ha le orecchie d’asino (1996), La bambinaia d’amore, Una di loro, Qualcosa nella notte, Una luce nerissima, writer of children’s books. She is a freelancer for “Il Corriere della children literature. She sold more than 2 million copies in Italy francese (2004), La vita sessuale dei nostri antenati (spiegata Il pianista muto, Caino, Mi ricordo e Avventure di un gatto Sera”. and her books have been translated into many languages. She is a mia cugina Lauretta che vuol credersi nata per partenogenesi) a translator of many authors, from Tolkien to Sylvia Plath, from (2015). David Grossman to Tove Jansson. Among her books, La bambina ENGLISH SAMPLE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE ENGLISH SAMPLE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE Rights sold: German (Goldmann); Spanish (Planeta/Espasa) 8 EDITIONS 35,000 COPIES PRINTED 25,000 COPIES SOLD BOMPIANI FICTION Pages: 240 BOMPIANI FICTION Pages: 240 Publication: April 2019 RIGHTS LIST HIGHLIGHTS Publication: September 2018 RIGHTS LIST HIGHLIGHTS Price: e 18,00 Price: e 16,00 10 11 HIGHLIGHTS Lidia Ravera HIGHLIGHTS Flavio Soriga Enduring Love In My Veins L’AMORE CHE DURA NELLE MIE VENE A novel about the things untold, about review.