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In Love with Italy
I am Italian and in love with my country. Beautiful sights, history, art, archi-tecture, music, theater and cinema, exquisite food, wine, mild temperature. And wonderful writers. We have got a splendid language and an Italian way of writing – essays, poems, literature, commercial fiction and general non-fiction, art and history – which is part of our identity, worldwide recognized.
That is why we export Italian writers abroad: even if translated, they en-lighten our language, our culture and our roots, making us proud of them.
At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 we are announcing the forthcoming books by Roberto Perrone, Francesco Carofiglio, Paola Mastrocola, Beppe Sever-gnini, Beatrice Masini, Irene Tinagli (pages 2-6).
And the international bestsellers of◆ Margaret Mazzantini – p. 8◆ Gianrico Carofiglio – p. 14◆ Melania G. Mazzucco – p. 18◆ Ermanno Rea – p. 22◆ Ignazio Marino – p. 24◆ Francesco Piccolo – p. 25◆ Grazia Verasani – p. 26◆ Lelio Luttazzi – p. 28◆ Ginevra Bompiani – p. 29 ◆ Marco Polillo – p. 30◆ Simone Perotti – p. 31◆ Sebastiano Mauri – p. 32
I am looking forward to seeing you in Frankfurt, have a good Fair,
Rosaria Carpinelli
Frankfurt Book Fair 2012The Literary Agents & Scouts Centre (LitAg), Hall 6.0, table 27J
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Details A novel, Mondadori 2013About the author Roberto Perrone was born in Rapallo in 1957 and lives in Milan since 1981. He writes 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 @Perri57Uncorrected proofs available by january 2013
Details A novella, Piemme 2013 About the author Francesco Carofiglio, born in Bari, published his first novel, With or Without You, in 2005, followed by Cacciatori nelle tenebre (Hunters in the Dark, 2007), a graphic novel written with his brother Gianrico,
L’estate del cane nero (The Black Dog Summer, 2008), Ritorno nella valle degli angeli (Back to the Valley of Angels, 2009, Premio Stresa 2010) and Radiopirata (Pirate Radio, 2011). @fracarofiglio
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❝ An ironic master of suspect, Paola Mastrocola warns us about wrong ideas that pretend to be the right ones. ❞
Tuttolibri❝ Biting parables on our society. ❞
l’Unità❝ One of the few Italian writers with a delightful
and involving sense of humour. ❞ Corriere della Sera
It all begins with the peaceful invasion of the Bal-liol College conference room in Oxford by dozens of sheep. They are following a young Italian econo-mist, who has been invited to expose a surprising theory that could change the destiny of the world. This is how Filippo Cantirami’s parents suddenly discover that they don’t know anything about their son: they believe he is studying in America but he’s in Oxford with his sheep, they try to meet him in London, while he is leaving for the Norwegian fjords. It happened that one day, studying in the library, Filippo saw a hornet, a buzzing and shiny insect, and he thought for the first time at his own life, and what he really wanted for himself. A powerful contemporary novel about people’s dreams and expectations, an eloquent exploration of time, vanishing and portentous, charismatic and engaging.
Paola MastrocolaLA CUCinA DegLi AMoRi iMPossibiLi
(The Cuisine of Impossible Loves)
When Rossella meets Augusto on her flight back from the United States to Italy, it’s love at first sight. But love is not so simple if your families lead the two most famous restaurants in town and have been competitor for decades. Like Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers will have to face hate, envy, resentment, passion... Surrounded by the sensual enjoyment for food, with all its flavour and aroma, the destiny of the two families is in a secret ingredient for legendary Pansotti. Here lies the key to the strongly desired third Michelin star.
A village on the beautiful coast of Liguria, two restaurants in ruth-less competition, two families at war with one another, an impossible love: the Montagues and Capulets confront each others in the kitchen.
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His name is Wok, he’s fifteen years old and has Navaho origins. Wok stands for Wokaihwokomas, “white antelope”. He lives with his mother, a young woman with a ramshackle life, in a small town in East Texas. When he finds 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 nursing home, and take him back to the Navajo Reservation in North-ern Arizona. Wok must suddenly become an adult, with his mother’s voice at his side and her ashes in the dashboard. This is the story of a journey: through wide open spaces and solitude, through the life of a fragile and courageous boy.
on the roads of native America, a young boy searching for his future will discover his past.
Paola Mastrocola has a very special voice among the Italian con-temporary writers and bestselling novelists. She has written poems, books for children and literary essays while teaching Italian litera-ture at high school: her daily relationship with students has become over the years an important aspect of her writing thanks to her per-sonal point of view. Very sharp and brilliant, always sincere, able to look beyond reality and to nourish imaginary visions.
Paola Mastrocola made her debut in fiction with La gallina volante (The Flying Hen, 1999, Premio Calvino, Premio Selezione Campiello, Premio Rapallo Carige). Her second novel Palline di pane (Bread Crumbs) was shortlisted at Premio Strega in 2001, while Una barca nel bosco (A Boat in the Forest) received the Premio Campiello in 2004. In 2005 she won the Camaiore Prize for poetry with the collection La felicità del galleggiante (The Happiness of 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 La narice del coniglio (The Rabbit Nostril, 2009) and Facebook in the rain (2011), and two highly successful narra-tive pamphlets about Italian school – La scuola raccontata al mio cane (The School Explained to My Dog, 2004), and Togliamo il disturbo (We’re Out of Here, 2011). Her books have been translated in France, Germany, Spain and Latin America, Portugal, Turkey and Japan.
non so niente Di te(Knowing Nothing About You)
Paola Mastrocola’s new awaited novel will be published by einaudi in February 2013.
Roberto Perrone
Francesco Carofiglio
❝ In Francesco Carofiglio’s stories there are always mysterious traces, obscure signs. ❞ Corriere del Mezzogiorno
❝ He knows how to handle epic. ❞ Il Riformista❝ Hovering between irony and nostalgia. ❞ l’Unità
❝ Paola Mastrocola loves her eternally bored students, perceiving delusions, desires, and hopes
hidden under their yawns. ❞ la Repubblica
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itALiAni Di DoMAni(Tomorrow’s Italians)
Tomorrow’s Italians is a compellingly practi-cal book: how to make it as Italians, stay out of trouble and get on in the world. Italians are re-sourceful, and are at their most ingenious when their backs are to the wall. It’s the Italian Paradox.When the going gets tough, the Italians get going.This book is for anyone who wants to learn the Italian lesson. There is a way, just find it. Severgnini’s Bella Figura was a field guide to the mind of today’s Italians. Tomorrow’s Italians is Severgnini’s roadmap for the emerging nation. Witty, bold and surprising. Like the Italians. “A new generation is approaching a series of T-junctions. They have to decide which way to take our country” says Severgnini. And he has few tips for younger Italians.
1. Talent Be ruthless2. Tenacity Be patient3. Timing Be ready4. Tolerance Be flexible5. Totem Be fair6. Tenderness Be gentle7. Territory Be open8. Testa Be optimistic
Beyond those junctions may not lie success. But what is within reach is a better life. And a better Italy.
For the italians of tomorrow, and for anybody else who cares about italy’s future.
beppe severgninibeppe severgnini is one of Italy’s best-known journalists. A columnist for Italy’s leading newspaper Corriere della Sera and a contributor for Time magazine and the Financial Times, he is the author of the New York Times bestseller La Bella Fi-gura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind, and the national bestseller Ciao, America! An Italian Discovers the U.S. His books are translated worldwide.www.beppesevergnini.com @beppesevergnini
Details A novel, Bompiani 2013
beatrice Masinibeatrice Masini was born in Milan. She is a well-known and successful writer of books for children and teens, translated into over 20 languages, from Finnish to Thai. She works as editorial director in an Italian publishing group and has been translating important books as the Harry Potter saga by J.K. Rowling.Among her works, La spada e il cuore. Donne della Bibbia (The Sword and the 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.
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Details Non-fiction, Rizzoli, October 2012
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tentAtivi Di botAniCA DegLi AFFetti
1820. After her father’s death, Bianca, a young and gifted watercolor artist, leaves her house on Garda Lake and moves to a country estate near Milan. The owner of the villa, a famous poet with a passion for experimental agriculture, commits her an assignment: to portray all his exceptional botanic heritage. With a passionate spirit, she paints and explores the countryside, watching and listening to all that happens around her and in the large family of the poet, following a naive curiosity that will bring her too far, in the terri-tory of secrets, of untold truths, and of love. And that is a dangerous game, because the botany of affection is not an exact science. It has no rules and might become deeply misleading.A wonderful read, an extraordinary reconstruc-tion of the search for freedom of a young woman in the nineteenth century, Masini’s careful and compelling storytelling brings her characters uniquely alive.
A romantic and proud heroine in the northern italy of the nineteenth century, between the peacefulness of the countryside and the an-nounced turmoil of the italian Risorgimento. A sophisticated historical novel, deeply involv-ing with its realistic, detailed style.
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toRniAMo A voLARe! CogLieRe Le oPPoRtUnità nonostAnte LA CRisi
(Taking Off Again! How to Recognize the Opportunities in Times of Crisis)
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 start all over again.
Details An essay, Rizzoli 2013
irene tinagliirene 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 publication Un-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 is Talento da svendere (Talent on Sale, 2008). www.irenetinagli.ilcannocchiale.it @itinagli
❝ 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
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❝ Margaret Mazzantini sows, with a steady hand, the seed of hope deep within the darkest and most desperate acts of humankind. ❞
La Stampa
Details A novel, Einaudi 2011, 128 pages
About the author Margaret Mazzantini was born in Dublin and lives in Rome with her husband and four children. She made her literary debut in 1994 with Il catino di zinco (The Zinc Basin), followed by Manola (1999) and Non ti muovere (Don’t Move, 2001, Premio Strega, Premio Grinzane Cavour, Premio Città di Bari, European Zepter Prize). Translated into more than 30 languages, in 2004 it became an acclaimed film directed by Sergio Castellitto, starring Penélope Cruz. After the theatrical monologue Zorro (2002), she published the novel Venuto al mondo (Twice Born, 2008, Premio Campiello 2009), now a film directed by Castellitto, starring Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch (2012). Her latest novels are Nessuno si salva da solo (No One Survives Alone, 2011) and Mare al mattino (Morning Sea, 2011, Premio Pavese and Premio Matteotti).www.margaretmazzantini.com
Foreign rights sold inFrance (Laffont), Germany (DuMont), Spain and Latin America (Alfaguara), Israel (Kinneret), Russia (Azbooka), The Netherlands (Wereld-bibliotheek), UK and USA (Oneworld), Turkey (Doğan), Serbia (Plato).
two children. two mothers. two worlds.
Farid is a Libyan child who lives in the desert, with a gazelle as his best friend. Vito is a Sicil-ian boy who grew up listening to stories told by his mother and his grandmother about how Gaddafi threw them out of Tripoli in the Seventies, together with many other Italians. Between them the Mediterranean sea, the promise of a new life. A tale of moving inten-sity about people’s migration.
Margaret MazzantiniMARe AL MAttino (Morning Sea)
❝ Visions of highly symbolic impact… Unusual and unforgettable images.❞
Corriere della Sera
❝ A small book about a great catastrophe, a document of our time, full of poetry. ❞
Buchmarkt
❝ A story about the interwoven destiny of Italy and Libya… just while Gaddafi is falling. ❞
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❝ Delia and Gaetano are like two boxers in a ring, stunned by the hate they feel for each
other - hate that in fact might be love, but which they do not understand. ❞
la Repubblica
❝ A masterpiece on the deterioration of perfection. ❞
Corriere della Sera
❝ Harshness as its stylish and moral issue. ❞Tuttolibri
Details A novel, Mondadori 2011, 192 pages
Foreign rights sold inFrance (Laffont), Germany (DuMont), Spain and Latin America (Alfaguara), Israel (Kinneret), Russia (Azbooka), The Netherlands (Wereldbi-bliotheek), UK and USA (Oneworld), Turkey (Doğan), Serbia (Plato).
Margaret MazzantininessUno si sALvA DA soLo
(No One Survives Alone)
A summer night at a table in a restaurant in Rome. A young couple with too many responsibilities on their shoulders: two children to take care of, re-sentments and transgressions. Delia and Gaetano consider the possibility of starting over together again. At the same time they are seduced by the unknown. Neither the passion that marked the beginning of their relationship nor the rage they now feel have entirely subsided.
❝ It flows as smoothly as a sigh. ❞Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
❝ Beautifully written and skilfully crafted. ❞Publishers Weekly
❝ A breathtaking story of love and war. ❞Le Monde des Livres
❝ Vivid memories and powerful emotions… A stunning book. ❞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
Details A novel, Mondadori 2008, 530 pages
Premio Campiello 2009
Foreign rights sold inAlbania (Ombra), Argentina (Lumen), Bosnia
(Buybook), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Bulgaria (Colibri), Colombia (Lumen), Croatia
(Algoritam), France (Robert Laffont, 10/18), Germany (DuMont), Hungary (Cartaphilus),
Israel (Kinneret), Latvia (Apgads Atena), Mexico (Grijalbo), The Netherlands (Wereldbi-
bliotheek), Poland (Sonia Draga), Portugal (Bertrand), Romania (Polirom), Russia (Azbooka), Serbia (BeoBook), Slovenia
(Mladinska Knjiga Zalozba), Spain-Castillan (Lumen, DeBolsillo), Spain-Catalan (Rosa dels
Vents), Turkey (Doğan), UK (Oneworld), USA (Viking Penguin).
Margaret MazzantinivenUto AL MonDo(Twice Born)
Haunted by memories of Sarajevo’s four-year siege, Gemma boards a flight from her native Rome to the war-scarred city with her son Pietro. She hopes to teach him about the country of his birth and about Diego, the father he never knew. Now, a revelation awaits her – one that will force her to face the full extent of her loss, the true hor-ror of war and the redemptive power of love. Twice Born is now a major motion picture direc-ted by Sergio Castellitto, starring Penélope Cruz & Emile Hirsch.
An international bestseller, a sweeping portrait of motherhood, loss and redemption.
The everyday drama of love and disaffection in a contemporary couple. The sentimental auto-biography of a generation.
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❝ 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. ❞
Sergio Castellitto, twice born director
❝ Citazione sull'autore o sul libro ❞ Nome Cognome
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❝ Carofiglio’s insights into human nature – good and bad – are breathtaking.❞
Jeffery Deaver
❝ A novel distinguished by the natural gift of prose, as smooth and silent as a perfect wave. ❞
Corriere della Sera
❝ If you need a label, you can call it magic realism. ❞
El Mundo
Details A novel, Rizzoli 2011, 300 pagesShortlisted at Premio Strega 2012
About the author gianrico Carofiglio was born in 1961 in Bari, Apulia. He is the author of four novels featuring the character of defense lawyer Guido Guerrieri: Testimone inconsapevole (Involuntary Witness, 2002), Ad occhi chiusi (A Walk in the Dark, 2003), Ragionevoli dubbi (Reasonable Doubts, 2006) and Le perfezioni provvisorie (Temporary Perfections, 2010). A former anti-Mafia prosecu-tor, Carofiglio is an expert in the investigation of organized crime and related psychology. His other novels include Il passato è una terra straniera (The Past is a Foreign Country, 2004), that won the Premio Bancarella and has been adapted into an internationally awarded film, and Né qui né altrove (Neither Here Nor Else-where, 2009); in 2010 he published a collection of short stories, Non esiste saggezza (There is No Wisdom). His books have been translated into24 languages worldwide.www.gianricocarofiglio.com
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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 her past and a child living in a world of dreams will help him fighting his (and their) fears.
gianrico CarofiglioiL siLenZio DeLL’onDA(The Silence of the Wave)
❝ italy’s best exports now include number-one bestselling writer gianrico Carofiglio. ❞
Gay Talese
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Details A Guido Guerrieri novel - Sellerio 2010 336 pages, Premio Selezione Campiello
Foreign rights sold inCzech Republic (Host), Denmark (HR Ferdi-nand), France (Seuil), Germany (Goldmann), The Netherlands (Prometheus), Poland (W.A.B.), Portugal (Porto Editora), Spain (Esfera de los Libros), UK (Bitter Lemon Press), USA (Rizzoli International).
❝ A first-rate thriller, stylish, witty and suspenseful. ❞
Kathy Reichs
❝ A captivating, intellectual novel. ❞
The Washington Post
❝ Carofiglio raises the standard for crime fiction. His deft touch gives stories that
are both literary and gritty. ❞Jeffery Deaver
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 doesn’t need. He fights his loneliness by talking to the punching bag hanging in his living room and by walking the streets of Bari late at night, activities that somehow lead to solving the riddle of Manuela’s vanishing.
gianrico Carofiglio Le PeRFeZioni PRovvisoRie(Temporary Perfections)
❝ Every character in Carofiglio’s fiction has a story to tell and they are always worth hearing. ❞Daily Mail
❝ What places him in a superior league is the portrayal of a slice of Italian society not normally encountered in crime fiction and an immensely appealing flawed hero. ❞The Times
❝ Guerrieri could have just gotten off an Alitalia flight from the land of Grisham or the Los Angeles of Michael Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer. Sharp writing will keep readers turning the pages. ❞Publishers Weekly
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involuntary witness, 2002 A walk in the Dark, 2003 Reasonable Doubts, 2006
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Courage is something you cannot teach. You have it or you don’t. The courage to save other people in danger, if you are at war, or the courage to get in love with a man.
A young female soldier – an officer of the Ital-ian Army – comes back from a military mission in the Afghan desert to her home town in Italy, on the Mediterranean coast. She was the com-mander of a thirty-man platoon and she is now a lonely and hurt person, trying to come to terms with her past. Every night, from his balcony, an unknown man is watching her.
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❝ no battles are lost as long as there are books like the ones written by Melania Mazzucco. ❞
El País
Details A novel, Einaudi, March 2012, 484 pages
About the author Melania g. Mazzucco was born in Rome in 1966. She made her debut in fiction in 1996 with Il bacio della Medusa (Medusa’s Kiss), followed by La camera di Baltus (Baltus’s Room, 1998) and Lei così amata (She So Loved, 2000). Her novel Vita received the Premio Strega in 2003, became a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and was selected for the Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of the Year. The novel Un giorno perfetto (A Perfect Day, 2005), was followed by two works about the Italian Renaissance painter Tintoretto: the novel La lunga attesa dell’angelo (The Long Wait for the Angel, 2008) and the essay Jacomo Tintoretto e i suoi figli (Jacomo Tintoretto and His Children, 2009). She is frequently invited to lecture on literature and art at the major uni-versities in Italy and abroad, and regularly writes on the cultural pages of la Repubblica. Her books have been translated in 23 countries.
❝ Limbo is a great contemporary novel, as we haven’t been reading in years. ❞
l’Espresso
❝ Mazzucco’s narrative has an engaged intensity. ❞
The New York Times Book Review
❝ Limbo… makes us reflect on responsibilities, on the challenges we face in our own lives. ❞
Il Sole 24 Ore
❝ Melania Mazzucco writes with epical strength and great levity, drawing facts and characters
with care, irony and emotional involvement. ❞Süddeutsche Zeitung
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Details Einaudi, November 2012, 106 pagesIllustrations by Alessandro Sanna
Melania g. MazzuccoiL bAssotto e LA ReginA
(Plato and the Queen)
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 languages of the world. A wonderful and mov-ing tale, about the courage of dreaming and the beauty of travelling.
A Christmas tale, a story of love and friendship about the strength and purity of feelings - concerning animals and their human owners.
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ermanno Rea1960. 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 Italian writer and intellectual. His political and civic involvement has always been part of his life, as his many books testify. But this wonderful photographic book shows his special talent in substituting words with images, catching the deep sense of the reality around him. From Na-ples’ narrow streets to the Dublin of Joyce, from Sevilla orange trees to the Nepalese villages through an unseen Che Guevara in Algeria, faces, bodies, trees, houses, gatherings of people and solitude, are enlightened by his human and poetic understanding.
About the author Among Ermanno Rea’s books, Il Po si racconta (1990), L’ultima lezione (1992), Mistero napoletano (1995, Premio Viareggio 1996), Fuochi fiammanti a un’hora di notte (1998, Premio Campiello 1999), La dismissione (2002), Napoli Ferrovia (2007, shortlisted for Premio Strega 2008), La fabbrica dell’obbedienza (2011) and La comunista (2012).
Details A photographic book, Feltrinelli, October 2012240 pages, over 200 black and white photos
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❝ 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
Details An essay, Einaudi, March 2012, 84 pages
About the authorsJesuit, Biblicist, and Archbishop of Milan from 1979 to 2002, Carlo Maria Martini became a Cardinal in 1983. Since then he has been regarded as one of the most influential and enlightened leaders of the Catholic Church. His books include Vivere i valori del Vangelo (1996) and La domanda di giustizia (with G. Zagrebelsky, 2003). His death in August 2012 has been accom-panied by a deep mourning, in Italy and abroad.ignazio Marino has worked as a surgeon in the USA and the United Kingdom. He became a Senator of the Italian Republic in 2006. His works include Credere e curare (Believing and Healing, 2005) and Nelle tue mani (In Your Hands, 2009). www.ignaziomarino.it @ignaziomarino
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CReDeRe e ConosCeRe (Believing and Knowing)
One of Italian highest spiritual authorities meets a world-renowned surgeon committed to human rights. In an open-minded, rational dialogue, they discuss about many of modernity’s most sig-nificant ethical issues and questions that touch our daily lives, spacing from human reproduc-tion to in vitro fertilization and embryonic stem cell research, from celibacy among priests to gay rights. One important chapter is about the end of life: in defending human dignity is there a time and place for euthanasia, after all?
Civil rights, in vitro fertilization, euthanasia: a man of science and a man of faith discuss over the most critical ethical issues of our time.
❝ Piccolo has published delightful books. Now he has surpassed himself. ❞El Ideal Gallego
❝ Piccolo’s comic indulgence is just as precise as his comic ruthlessness. ❞la Repubblica
❝ A book of wicked truths, and unjustified yet authentic pleasures. Small and private, but also universal. ❞Vanity Fair
Details Einaudi 2010, 136 pages
About the author Francesco Piccolo was born in Caserta in 1964
and lives in Rome. He has written award-win-ning works for cinema, theater, and radio, and is
a columnist for Corriere della Sera and l’Unità. Among his books, Scrivere è un tic.
I metodi degli scrittori (1994), Storie di primo-geniti e figli unici (1996, 2012), E se c’ero, dormivo
(1998), Il tempo imperfetto (2000), Allegro occidentale (2003), L’Italia spensierata (2007),
La separazione del maschio (2008).
Foreign rights sold inFrance (Denoël), Germany (Insel),
Spain (Anagrama), The Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Russia (Corpus),
Bulgaria (Ciela).
Francesco PiccoloMoMenti Di tRAsCURAbiLe FeLiCità(Moments of Negligible Happiness)
Is it possible to be happy about other people un-happiness? What does Francesco Piccolo mean when he describes with his wonderful way of writing – part literature, part humor, part self-analysis – his personal Moments of Negligible Happiness? Moments that nest anywhere, ready to pounce – moments that open your eyes to a section of life not previously acknowledged. A merciless catalogue of the usually unmention-able pleasures, tics and fragilities that are familiar to all of us, sooner or later.
A witty phenomenology of joyful living, an international bestseller.
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❝ Clarice starling by thomas Harris, kay scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell, private detective giorgia Cantini by grazia verasani: hard-boiled fiction is a female genre. ❞
Carlo Lucarelli
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-fore. She will have to face a hidden world made of prostitution, dark rooms and bleak parks; she will meet the people of the night, discover-ing lies, betrayals, frozen emotions. But Gior-gia is not afraid of watching into the dark, her eyes wide open.
grazia verasaniCosA sAi DeLLA notte(What Do You Know About the Night)
Details A hard-boiled novel, FeltrinelliSeptember 2012, 224 pages
About the author grazia verasani was born and lives in Bologna. A writer, screenwriter and musician, she wrote 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, the female detective Giorgia Cantini, is back in Velocemente da nessuna parte (Fast and No-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) and the successful drama From Medea (2004), that became a movie by Fabrizio Cattani under the title Maternity Blues (2011; two Globi d’Oro Awards, Best Screenplay Award at Bari Interna-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.www.graziaverasani.it @graziaverasani
❝ Peculiar, restless, melancholic but full of life, Giorgia Cantini is one of us. ❞
la Repubblica
❝ The investigation of the gay world becomes a reflection on love, on the impossibility of being a couple, a sharp invective against the injuries of
fake role models in this country. ❞D la Repubblica delle Donne
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❝ Ironic, cynic maybe, but sentimental. In this book Lelio takes revenge
of the kid who lived inside himself. ❞Franca Valeri
❝ One of the most lively character in twentieth century Italian fiction. ❞
Il Piccolo
❝ A real surprise, absolutely captivating. ❞Corriere della Sera
❝ It’s like a swing composition, nourished by an open mind. ❞
Blow-Up
❝ In the great literary tradition of the erotic novels of the twentieth century,
it could also be read by nowadays teenagers, inspiring their sentimental education.” ❞
Il Tempo
Details A novel, EinaudiMarch 2012, 166 pages
About the authorLelio Luttazzi (1923-2010), one of the most famous Italian jazz performers, a brilliant composer and a sophisticated artist, sharp and ironical, became also very popular as a show-man, making the history of Italian television. After his death, his widow discovered he had left some typescripts, that nobody had read before. Among the papers, this erotic novel that Einaudi published posthumous, with great success and critical acclaim.
Lelio LuttazziL’eRotisMo Di obeRDAn bACiRo
(Oberdan Baciro’s Erotism)
By the Italian king of swing, the hilarious story of the young Oberdan Baciro, and of his uncontrol-lable sexual impetus. Only son of a widow, devot-ed to God and to Mussolini, the young Oberdan is one of those human beings whose destiny is revealed at the youngest age. A slightly lifted hem or a light skin glow are enough to turn Oberdan’s curiosity into an obsession. So he spends his youth around this fleeting image, faithful to the worship of women’s mystery. While Italy is run-ning toward a disastrous war, Oberdan Baciro clumsily goes on dancing with desire, until the mocking last act.
❝ An exemplary tale, with an idea of literature echoing Henry James.❞Tuttolibri
❝ Somehow Robert Walser, somehow Virginia Woolf, but most of all herself. ❞l’Unità
❝ Ginevra Bompiani knows how to carry usinto spoken and unspoken feelings, on a cultured, refined perspective. ❞Internazionale
❝ A female story, fine and intense, with men that are shadows, ghosts, once loved and hated, however out of today’s life. ❞Corriere della Sera ❝ In Bompiani’s novella, the style creates the tale, and not vice versa. ❞Avvenire
Details A novella, Sellerio editore Palermo
March 2012, 120 pages
About the author ginevra bompiani was born in Milan.
She has been teaching at the University of Siena and since 2002 she is editorial director of
nottetempo editions in Rome. A writer, a translator and an essayist, among her works
Le specie del sonno (1975), Spazio narrante (1978), L’incantato (1987), L’attesa (1988),
L’orso maggiore (1994), L’età dell’argento (2001), Il ritratto di Sarah Malcolm (2005).
Her books have been translated in France, Germany and Spain.
Foreign rights sold inFrance (Liana Levi)
ginevra bompianiLA stAZione teRMALe(The Spa)
Two couples of women are spending their holi-day in a thermal Spa: a little girl with her aunt, and two old friends. The Spa is a place where all women have something in common, even if they don’t know each other: loneliness, a wound from the past, a disease (“the adventure of old people”), the dream of beauty, no matter how painful to reach. It’s a world reserved to women where men are excluded, but their presence is somehow al-ways there. At the end of the holiday everyone goes back home, with the same wrinkles, but maybe a little changed.
Four women in a spa, their fears, desires and secrets in a subtle and deep reflection on the passing of time.
between the Fascism and the war, the joyful and humorous sexual education of a young boy in the provincial town of trieste.
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❝ Enea Zottìa is a first rate policeman, a great romantic, a little big Gatsby. ❞
Sette
Details A crime-novel, RizzoliSeptember 2012, 306 pages
About the authorMarco Polillo was born in Milan and, after a career in publishing, he created his own publishing house, Polillo Editore, specialized in crime literature. He is the President of the Italian Publishers Association. He wrote three more novels with the character of inspector Zottìa, Testimone invisibile (Invisible Witness, Piemme 1997, 2010), Corpo morto (Dead Body, Piemme 2009) and Il pontile sul lago (The Pier on the Lake, Rizzoli 2011).
Marco PolilloviLLA tRe Pini(Villa Three Pines)
Inspector Enea Zottìa is even more involved with his new love, Serena, and he accepts to join her in a splendid villa on the enchanting hills around Lake Maggiore, where she is spending Christmas holidays with some friends. Everything seems to flow quiet and placid, until a night one of the guests is found dead in his room. With his pe-culiar method, following his feelings, Zottìa will find out that some mysteries are deep-rooted and started a long way off.
A villa with a lakeview, a placid Christmas holiday, a guest with a mysterious past: a new case for inspector Zottìa.
iL PontiLe sUL LAgo(The Pier on the Lake)A crime-novel, Rizzoli 2011, BUR 2012, 280 pages
When a retired Latin professor is found dead in a quiet lakeside village in Northern Italy, the secrets come spilling out.
❝ A classic mystery novel, Agatha Christie-style, but with no bloodshed.❞ Corriere della Sera
❝ A well constructed, enjoyable, page-turning novel. ❞ il Venerdì
simone Perottisimone Perotti was born in Frascati (Rome) in 1965. A novelist and an expert sailor, he is the Italian pioneer of downshifting and the author of Adesso basta (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-mani, he also wrote the pamphlet Ufficio di scollocamento (2012). www.simoneperotti.com
L’eQUiLibRio DeLLA FARFALLA(The Butterfly Balance)A Mediterranean Noir, Garzanti, May 2012, 360 pages
After Drifting Men, a new sea adventure for Renato Reis, the young man who decided to quit his brilliant job as a manager in Milan to become a full-time skipper. Sailing back to La Spezia, in the beautiful Thyrrenian sea, Renato sees a mysterious light sinking in the waves. After a while, a body is found in the water. Renato gets involved in a series 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.
UoMini senZA vento (Drifting Men)A Mediterranean Noir, Garzanti 2010, 290 pagesAwarded at Premio Carlo Marincovich – Cultura del mare 2010
❝ A noir written with passionate involvement, in a speedy, intriguing style. ❞ Corriere della Sera
A manager with a brilliant career in Milan, Renato Reis is spending a few days in the peaceful Ponza, when he finds himself involved in an overwhelming adventure, through the Mediterranean sea.
ADesso bAstA (Stop It Now. How to Quit Work and Change Your Life)
❝ 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.
AvAnti tUttA (Full Speed Ahead)Chiarelettere 2011, 208 pages
❝ The guru of downshifting. ❞ la Repubblica
We can do it. Downshifting is a viable choice. And now? Supported by his own ex-perience and his last years on the loose, Perotti tells us “how to live as outsider” and unmasks all the prejudices, drawing the identikit of the contemporary man in revolt.
Chiarelettere 2009, 190 pages
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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.
goDiti iL PRobLeMA(Enjoy the Problem)
Details A novel, Rizzoli, June 2012, 306 pages
❝ A perfect balance between comedy and 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
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
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