2018 BOMPIANI SPRING RIGHTS LIST Spring 2018 rights list BOMPIANI BOMPIANI FICTION Giulio Beranek The Frogs’ Son 5 Marco Pellegrino Paola Capriolo Adventures of a Travelling Cat 6 Valentina Fortichiari The Swimming Ceremony 6 Mario Fortunato All Our Mistakes 7 Giovanni Pacchiano Easy Years 7 Paola Predicatori Like Light in Dreams 8 Federico Riccato Bass or Lamb 8 Yari Selvetella The Farewell Rooms 9 CLASSICI Corrado Alvaro Collected Works 1&2 9 CONTEMPORANEI Alberto Moravia When You Come to Me I Will Be 10 almost Happy Letters to Elsa Morante Alberto Moravia I Don’t Know Why I Haven’t Been 10 a Painter. On Art (1934-1990) 2 BOMPIANI NON FICTION BOMPIANI FICTION FILOSOFIA Carlo Maria Martini The School of the Word 12 BAMBINI Chiara Carminati Travel, Verse 24 E RELIGIONE E RAGAZZI Nuccio Ordine The Usefulness of the Useless 13 Paolo Di Paolo Daddy Gugol 24 Luca Doninelli The Detective Wickson Alieni 25 IL NOSTRO Umberto Ambrosoli Right to Forget, Duty to Remember 13 TEMPO Massimo Sideri Umberto Eco Three Tales 25 Eugenio Carmi Roberto Bertinetti The Women’s Island 14 Alberto Moravia 26 Leonardo Caffo Building Futures 14 Prehistory Stories Azzurra Muzzonigro Orsola Nemi 26 In the Land of the Fairy She-Cat Roberto Finzi The Dismayed Male 15 Wu Ming 4 The Little Kingdom 27 Diego Fusaro History and Conscience 15 Alessandra Valtieri The Silk Princesses 27 Masal Pas Badgadi Time of Loneliness 16 Massimo Sideri The Eustachian Syndrome 16 ARTE Mario Baudino Don’t You Know Who I Am? 17 E LETTERATURA Massimo Donà Of a Deceitful Beauty 17 Gillo Dorfles Of Places and People 18 Matilde Hochkofler Anna Magnani 18 Giampiero Mughini Oh, the Wonderful Smell of Books! 19 Sergio Risaliti Gustav Klimt 19 Bruno Zevi How to Read a City 20 Biagio Rossetti’s Ferrara VARIA Mario Bellini Travels, Objects and Projects 20 Eleonora Matarrese The Wild She-Cook 21 Massimiliano Parente Foolocracy 21 Simone Perotti Atlas of the Mediterranean Islands 22 Lia Luzzatto Colours and Fashion 22 Renata Pompas 3 Fiction BOMPIANI Giulio Beranek, Marco Pellegrino The Frogs’ Son IL FIGLIO DELLE RANE A brave child, a criminal uncle, a carnie know anything about travelling life and grandfather, an unforgettable sentimental equal nomads to gypsies. education in the fierce and magic world of In this special world, where people carnivals. talk in a language you wouldn’t find in any dictionary and everything (school, When the caravan stops, old Monti spends friends, horizon) changes according to the hours drawing the map of the carnival, place where the caravan stops, Giulio is and each night checking his attractions born, one and only male heir of his old and polishing them. He is the referee for grandfather, gifted with a slender body slys and carnies, the mediator between and too smart a mind to be kept inside the them and the endless rules made up by i borders of the carnival. contrasti, the “common people” who don’t GIULIO BERANEK, MARCO PELLEGRINO Giulio Beranek born in Taranto in 1987 in a family of travelling working on a docufilm about carnivals.The frogs’ son was born out show professionals and now an actor, and Marco Pellegrino of this experience. Beranek was an actor in Matteo Garrone’s Tale (Novara, 1984), screenplayer, have been friends for years and are of Tales and Taviani brothers’ A Private Affair. BOMPIANI FICTION Pages: 240 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2018 Price: e 15,00 5 Paola Capriolo Valentina Fortichiari Adventures of a Travelling Cat The Swimming Ceremony A VVENTURE DI UN GATTO VIAGGIATORE LA CERIMONIA DEL NUOTO Adventures of a Travelling Cat at risk by an absent-minded cleaning lady Marine stories to let yourself go into the creatures – takes us with her to discover From the Switzerland to Greece who leaves the room door open to get water and become a shark, a narwhal, a the discipline swimming requires and and back some fresh air... sea-horse... the absolute freedom it gives. The sea- An ironic and affectionate cronicle, horse, changing colours according to its “DO NOT ENTER THE ROOM! full of literary subtleties, Adventures of A woman practicing swimming since mood, the big seal, driven by hunger, the Dangerous animal!”: equipped with this a Travelling Cat tells the story of the forever – as an athlet, first, then as a narwhal, unicorn of the oceans, and many threatening sign Paola Capriolo, and her holidays of two intellectuals and their teacher and as a “water traveller” who goes other beasts: all provided by the author husband leave for holidays. A couple plus inseparable pet and of the mysterious and around the world to meet oceans and sea with unique voices. Ela, a red-furred charismatic cat. Their phony charm of our felin companions. silent and deep relationship can’t be put PAOLA CAPRIOLO VALENTINA FORTICHIARI was born in Milan in 1962. Her first book, the collection of short Caino and Mi ricordo. She was awarded important literary prizes for was born in Milan and worked in the publishing world for years. Prize, Grazia Deledda Prize), then wrote a biography of Leonardo stories La grande Eulalia, was published in 1988 and was followed her works, translated in many languages. She is also a translator She managed the press office of the Longanesi Group, then GeMS. da Vinci (Non ha mai quiete). An ex-professional swimmer, she by many novels: Il nocchiero, Il doppio regno, Vissi d’amore, Una and a contributor to “Corriere della Sera”. She is a curator of the works of Zavattini and Morselli. She first is the author of a longselling swimming manual: Nuotare tutti, di loro, Qualcosa nella notte, Una luce nerissima, Il pianista nudo, published Lezione di nuoto. Colette e Bertrand in 2009 (Rapallo subito e bene. BOMPIANI FICTION Pages: 150 BOMPIANI FICTION Pages: 144 RIGHTS LIST Publication: November 2017 RIGHTS LIST Publication: May 2018 Price: e 14,00 Price: e 15,00 6 Mario Fortunato Giovanni Pacchiano All Our Mistakes Easy Years TUTTI I NOSTRI ERRORI GLI ANNI FACILI A collection of twenty short stories that an individual destiny, in discovering one’s It’s in the easy years that the most boys went to see striptease perfomances Mario Fortunato has been writing and own mistakes, becomes history. These dangerous liaisons thrive. A novel about but had never kissed anybody, when one rewriting for the last 30 years. Some of short stories, debating how life intertwines youth and desires, a Milanese education got engaged and found a job before even them never appeared before, some were people in a seemingly casual way, make up vibrating with authenticity, a vivid portrait graduating. Easy years of dreams. But published in limited editions, abroad or a reluctant novel, maybe the only possible of a city and a generation, just before 1968. to Giacomo, sweet and deeply in love in reviews only. A merciless portrait of kind of novel at our times. with elusive Pia, to his friend don Calò, their author and his country, Italy, when University of Milan, Faculty of Arts and just arrived from Sicily, to impudent but Philosophy, 1962. A golden fall welcomes anguished Lula and to many others, youth in the university cloisters the little group of is painful, confusing, overwhelming. And Ancient Greek and Latin students, mostly these years of hopes, loves, books, cinema girls and a handful of boys. Those were the and enduring friendships will lead all of years when girls couldn’t go out in pants, them towards a whole new world. when goliardery rites were still alive, when MARIO FORTUNATO GIOVANNI PACCHIANO has published the following books with Bompiani: Luoghi Tascabili, Tre giorni a Parigi and Le voci di Berlino. His other was born in Milan, where he lives. After graduating at Pisa Ore” and now “Sette”. He is the author of many books, such as Ho naturali, immigrato (with Salah Methnani), I giorni innocenti titles are: Il primo cielo, Sangue, Passaggi paesaggi, L’arte di University, he taught Italian and Latin in many milanese schools. A sposato una prof and Era un’altra stagione, amore mio. He curated della guerra (finalist for the 2007 Strega Prize and winner of perdere peso, Amore, romanzi e altre scoperte, L’amore rimane literary critic, he wrote for many magazines and newspapers, such the works of Sergio Solmi published by Adelphi. the Premio Mondello and Super Mondello - Palermo City) and and Certi pomeriggi non passano mai. as “L’Europeo”, “Il Giornale”, “Corriere della Sera”, “Il Sole 24 Quelli che ami non muoiono, all available in the Bompiani “Mario Fortunato is a master of short story writing.” “Le Monde” BOMPIANI FICTION Pages: 320 BOMPIANI FICTION Pages: 600 RIGHTS LIST Publication: November 2017 RIGHTS LIST Publication: April 2018 Price: e 17,00 Price: e 22,00 7 Paola Predicatori Federico Riccato Like Light in Dreams Bass or Lamb COME LA LUCE NEI SOGNI SPIGOLA O AGNELLO To lose your job, to be lonely, not to existential void. The only one to be close A treasure fished up in the Venetian A failure, until he fishes up a case of believe in anything anymore: an uncle to him is Gioele, his teenage nephew: a lagoon. A university researcher with a ancient coins from the muddy waters: a and his nephew, Italian province, apathy, boy stuck up angrily in the middle, victim double personality. A brilliant debut. real treasure from the past, when during redemption. of Davide, a textbook bully, until, struck by the plague all the deads’ possessions were his uncle’s subtle resilience, he will rebel, Felice is 30 and has “a bachelor degree, thrown into the water to avoid contagion.