Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali Fall 2020 [email protected] www.consulenzeditoriali.it @ConsulenzeEd Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali 2 FICTION Andrea Ricolfi L'ULTIMO MARINAIO (The Last Sailor) A book for those who, bravely enough today, choose nature over human beings, but still can’t help hoping in a better, more gracious humankind. Matias lives on the island of Noss, a desert rock in the Norwegian sea. That very ocean, ❝ Let's hope he'll write more. ❞ which took his father away when he was Lidia Ravera, Tuttolibri just a child, means everything to him. His only inheritance is the Marlin, a hand-built wooden sailing boat. This is the origin of his dream: to create a sailing school, to shape sailors as they used to be. This is how Matias meets Tomas, a mysterious sailor who came to Noss to share with the students the ocean’s hard lesson: the sea is dangerous and no matter how many storms you have faced, the next one will still scare you to death. It is a cruel law, though never as cruel as the law of men. About the author Andrea Ricolfi, born in Torino, studied Tomas is a silent man, as hard to decipher Mathematics in Torino, Padova and Bordeaux. as the words of a distant song that is fading After obtaining his PhD at the University of away. But day after day Matias discovers in Stavanger, Norway, he was a researcher at the Max-Planck Institut für Mathematik in Bonn. him a pure soul, capable of the most vigorous He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at SISSA strength, as well as of the most unexpected (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi tenderness. And while the dance of the Avanzati), Trieste. L’ultimo marinaio (2020) is his debut novel. Northern lights fills up the darkness of the polar sky, Tomas becomes not only a teacher, but a friend, too. Because being part of a crew means never having to face the winds alone. Details FICTION A novel, Garzanti 2020, 156 pages 4 5 Melania G. Mazzucco Melania G. Mazzucco returns to the L'ARCHITEttriCE historical novel, to the passion for art and its interpreters. While narrating the glories, the The first female architect of modern intrigues, the violence and the history. miseries of Rome – city of popes – and the fervour of a century both sanctimonious and libertine, Giovanni Briccio is a plebeian genius, she gives us the portrait of an opposed by the literati and ignored by the extraordinary woman court: he is a mattress-maker, a painter of of the seventeenth century. scant fame, a popular playwright, actor Foreign rights sold in and poet. He has a daughter, Plautilla. Bulgaria (Jelenkor). Briccio wants to make her the total About the author artist he has failed to become and Melania G. Mazzucco was born in teaches her about painting, mathematics, Rome in 1966, and made her debut in science. Plautilla, however, is doubly fiction with Il bacio della Medusa (1996), disadvantaged as a female and of humble followed by La camera di Baltus (1998) and Lei così amata (2000). Her novel origins. She struggles in Rome’s artistic Vita was awarded the Premio Strega in circles, dominated by the genius of Bernini 2003, named in a New York Times Book and Pietro da Cortona, and conditioned Review Editors’ Choice and selected for by the patronage of the Barberini family. the Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of the Year. After Un giorno perfetto (2005), Her father’s overbearing presence forces she wrote about Tintoretto the novel her to sacrifice her youth. But the meeting La lunga attesa dell’angelo (2008) and with Elpidio Benedetti, a young aspiring the essay Jacomo Tintoretto e i suoi figli writer, will eventually change her life. (2009). Her most recent works are the Plautilla Bricci and Elpidio Benedetti, novel Limbo (2012), Il bassotto e la Regina (2012), Sei come sei (2013), Io sono con both apparently unarmed due to the te. Storia di Brigitte (2016), L'architettrice dangers of the court, will become the (2019). She created and wrote the docu- most extravagant couple of seventeenth- film Tintoretto. A Rebel in Venice, a 2019 century Rome. She a virgin, he an abbot, Sky Arts original production distributed all over the world. Her books have been both of them held to chastity to safeguard translated in 27 languages. the only treasure they possess. They must hide and officially ignore each other for twenty-five years, until they can embark on an enterprise that crowns the dream of a lifetime: the construction of a Villa designed, planned and executed by the woman. Details A novel, Einaudi, November 2019, 560 pages FICTION ph © Venice Documentation Project for Incroci di Civiltà di Incroci for Project Documentation © Venice ph 6 7 Gianrico Carofiglio DELLA GENTILEZZA E DEL CORAGGIO (Of Kindness and Courage) ❝ The practice of kindness does not mean ❝ I am fraternally grateful to Carofiglio escaping conflict. On the contrary, it for facing a war that I am deserting.❞ means accepting it, giving it rules, mak- Michele Serra, la Repubblica ing it a tool of possible progress and not ❝ an event of destruction. ❞ At the end, you might feel like calling an old friend you had a fight with, not to forgive them or because N°1 Bestseller you’re suddenly good, but to win once and for all, finally aware of your Della gentilezza e del coraggio is a weapons: philosophy, law and the compendium of principles and methods yielding elegance of reason. ❞ for the practice of politics and civic Nadia Terranova, la Repubblica responsibility, to encourage a society of mutual respect and peaceful coexistence. Written with Gianrico Carofiglio’s trademark incisiveness and lexical precision, it is a book that subverts assumptions and challenges limitations. A book that never claims to provide the answers but, instead, champions the art of questioning. A must- have mini-manual for the thinking citizen About the author Award-winning novelist Gianrico Carofiglio – and politician. is the author of novels, short stories, essays, and the best-selling Guido Guerrieri crime series. His books have sold more than five million copies in Italy and have been translated into 27 languages worldwide. Details An essay, Feltrinelli 2020, 128 pages FICTION Carofiglio © Giorgia PH 8 9 Gianrico Carofiglio A masterful novel. Writing at la MISura DEL TEMPO once unrelenting and full of (The Measure of Time) compassion, striking a balance between the trial story – the purest distillation of human experience N°1 Bestseller – and the sad notes of time as it passes and exhausts itself. Premio Strega 2020 Finalist ❝ Guerrieri is a wonderfully One spring afternoon lawyer Guido convincing character. ❞ Guerrieri finds an unexpected fragment of The Times the past in his office. Of course, Lorenza has ❝ changed a lot. When they first met, more Carofiglio’s insights into human than twenty years ago, she was a charismatic, nature – good and bad – are breathtaking. ❞ ambitious and seductive girl who wanted to Jeffery Deaver become a writer and seemed ready to take on the world. Things took different turn. The ❝ Italy’s best exports now include years have had an impact on her face, her number-one bestselling writer body, her temper. As if that weren’t enough Gianrico Carofiglio. ❞ her son Jacopo, a small-time delinquent, Gay Talese was convicted of first-degree murder. And Lorenza turns to Guerrieri as her last hope. ❝ Guido Guerrieri is wonderful Guido does not have a good memory of her, company on late-night walks through and he isn’t convinced of Jacopo’s innocence. the city of Bari, Italy, brooding on lost loves and misspent lives. ❞ But he decides to accept the case and so The New York Times begins a surprising investigation back and forth across the dangerous border between truth and mere verisimilitude. This time, in court, it will take more than just a brilliant defense. Foreign rights sold in Germany (Goldmann), UK and USA (Bitter Lemon Press). Details A novel, Einaudi 2019, 286 pages THE GUIDO GUERRIERI NOVELS FICTION 10 11 ❝Once the ties with the nest were Gian Arturo Ferrari cut – eliminating, in practice, ragazzo italiano obligations and duties – Ninni, (Italian Boy) to his intimate amazement, discovered that other things were left and they existed. The story of a boy that reflects the history Indeed, he existed.❞ of the whole postwar Italy. Details Premio Strega 2020 Finalist A novel, Feltrinelli, February 2020, 310 pages Ninni is a child of postwar Italy. His life About the author Gian Arturo Ferrari after graduating in traverses hardships recalling the industrial Classical Literature at Pavia University, led revolution in provincial Lombardy, the a double life for a little while. On one hand decline of rural civilization in Emilia, and the life of the university professor, teaching History of scientific thinking from 1977 at the explosion of life in a Milan undergoing Pavia University. On the other hand he began reconstruction. Through it all, Ninni learns working in publishing, first with Edgardo about the pitfalls of emotions, suffering, Macorini at Mondadori, then for a decade and the pain hidden even in the closest with Paolo Boringhieri, at the homonymous publishing house. He then became non- bonds. As a boy, thanks to his grandmother, fiction editor at Mondadori in 1984 and head he discovers he can leverage the immense of Rizzoli Libri in 1986. He went back to continent of experiences and emotions that Mondadori in 1988 and in 1989 he resigned from University, choosing publishing as his books open wide before his eyes. Having only life. In the early 90s he’s been head of Libri become aware of himself and his wearying Mondadori and from 1997 to 2009 he’s been autonomy, the boy carves out, in the name general manager of Libri Mondadori division, including Einaudi, Electa, Sperling&Kupfer, of curiosity and the will to know, what Edumond and later on Piemme, besides promises to be his place in the world.