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FOCUS ON Antonio Scurati
M. The Man of Providence
M. L’UOM O DE L L A P ROVV I DE NZ A
The second volume of Antonio Scurati’s epopee. Mussolini is now a distant entity,
series about Mussolini, from 1925 looking at the path of History, around
to 1932. which his old comrades tear each other
to pieces. He puts Augusto Turati to
1925: the youngest Prime Minister in sedate his hierarchs’ fights, he forgets
Italian history and in the world, who his gratitude to Margherita Sarfatti, he
has just laid on himself the fault of tries to placate his daughter Edda’s flame
the Matteotti murder, who is now the by marrying her off to Galeazzo Ciano
only winner of Italian political arena, and lays upon Badoglio and Graziani the
is suffering from an ulcer. This is the African enterprise, celebrated by the
opening scene of the second chapter regime propaganda but fought by using
of Antonio Scurati’s tale of the Fascist gas and concentration camps.
A N T O N I O S C U R AT I
was born in 1969 in Naples and teaches Comparative Mondello Prize. Among his many books, translated into many
Literatures at the IULM university in Milan, where is head languages: Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo (2009,
of the Master in Storytelling. He also works for “Il Corriere shortlisted for the Strega Prize), La seconda mezzanotte
della Sera” and is author of many essays. He’s been writing (2011), Il padre infedele (2013, shortlisted for the Strega
novels since 2002. Il sopravvissuto was awarded the Prize) and Il tempo migliore della nostra vita (2015, Viareggio
2005 Campiello Prize and Una storia romantica the 2008 Prize and Selezione Campiello Prize).
WINNE R O F T HE 2 0 1 9
STR EG A P R IZ E
“A novel Italy had been awaiting for for
decades. A true masterpiece.”
Roberto Saviano
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FOCUS ON Roberto Saviano
Shout It Out
G R I DA L O
The great adventure of freedom of the mechanics we thought we knew
speech: with his writing both epic and and reveal others we didn’t suspect. All
lucid, Saviano unveils all the dangerous together, they make up a great picture,
dynamics dominating any kind of animated by the will of the author to
communication. Nevertheless, at the end save stories that can make amend to
of the book, we feel full of energies, injustice and abuses, and to shout aloud
of dreams, of indignation. words forbidden by the regimes. From
Ipazia to Robert Capa, from Giordano
These pages are made of passionate Bruno to Anna Achmatova, celebrated
and gripping tales that dismantle reality men and women come and question us.
under our own eyes and show us all
R O B E RT O S AV I A N O
(Naples, 1979) is author of the international bestsellers he published In mare non esistono taxi. As a screenwriter, he
Gomorra (2006) and ZeroZeroZero (2013) and of the novels was awarded the Grand Prix du Jury for Gomorra in Cannes
La paranza dei bambini (2016), Bacio feroce (2017). In 2019 and the Silver Bear in Berlin for La paranza di bambini.
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A collection
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Roberto Saviano
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Arianna Farinelli
American Gothic
GOTICO AMERICANO
A remarkable debut novel. An unflinching with the racist conservatism of the new
portrait of America today as seen from president or the loneliness that haunts
within and from without. A collective and her amid the thousand bright lights of
intimately personal narrative of migration, Manhattan. She is pregnant by her young
dreams, resentments, of promises, of Afro-American student, Yunus, who for
betrayals, and love as our only fighting two days now hasn’t been answering her
chance. phone calls. Yunus, aged twenty, sends her
a manuscript to her in which he tells his
It’s the night of the presidential elections. own story: the tale of a young man of colour
Bruna, a professor of Political Science to whom life leaves few choices, and who
in New York, has been on television, therefore makes the most radical possible
commenting on the results. But back at one – one that takes him to Syria, to fight
the apartment she shares with her husband in a war which represents the failure of
Tom and their children, the wave of nausea centuries of human progress.
that overwhelms her has nothing to do
ARIANNA FARINELLI
was born in Rome in 1975. She has been living in the
United States since 2001. In 2009 she was granted a PhD
in Political Science and since 2010 she has been a lecturer
at Baruch College, City University of New York. This is her
first novel.
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Daphne Caruana Galizia
Speak the Truth
Even if Your Voice Shakes
DI’ LA VERITÀ ANCHE SE LA TUA VOCE TREMA
The book Daphne Caruana Galizia Daphne paid with her life for thirty years
was working on at the time of her of investigative journalism in which
assassination. she exposed the dark side of Malta,
from political corruption, drug trade
“There are crooks everywhere you look, and money laundering to the influence
the situation is desperate.” These are the exerted by the Azerbaijani regime over
last words that Daphne Caruana Galizia local politics, Malta’s role in the Panama
posted on Running Commentary, at 2.35 Papers scandal and the sale of Maltese
pm on 16th October 2017. Minutes later, citizenship – accounting for 2.5% of
the Peugeot 108 in which Daphne was the island nation’s GDP. Daphne’s last
heading away from Dar Rihana exploded, words will remain a painful warning amid
and that sentence unwittingly became the flowers at the site of her makeshift,
her final message to readers of the blog. unofficial memorial.
DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA
a Maltese journalist and blogger, wrote for “Sunday
Times of Malta”, for “Malta Independent” and for the
blog “Running Commentary”, opened in 2008. She was
murdered in an attack on October 16th, 2017.
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INTRODUCTION BY PAUL CARUANA GALIZIA
INTRODUCTIONS TO SECTIONS OF THE BOOK BY
ANDREW, MATTHEW AND PAUL CARUANA GALIZIA.
“Daphne Caruana Galizia had the courage
and resilience to write despite the threats she
faced. [...] To secure justice it is essential that
there is a public inquiry to determine who
commissioned her killing – and, crucially,
whether it could have been prevented.”
Margaret Atwood
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MODERN CLASSICS
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HIGHLIGHTS Giulia Caminito
Lake Water Is Never Sweet
L’ACQUA DEL LAGO NON È MAI DOLCE
A red-haired girl, a lake that seems to to be good but not to expect anything
swallow any hope. A harsh, disturbing, from anyone, ever. And so Gaia does:
coming-of-age novel with a strong, she never complains, she dives into the
contradictory unforgettable main lake even when the currents are at their
character. strongest, she reads books instead of
watching TV, she hides away her sadness
On the shores of the Bracciano lake where nobody can see it. Until, facing
Antonia’s family arrives: she is a brave an injustice, she reacts violently and her
mother, with a handicapped husband and vengeance will be that of a mute deity.
four children, and teaches her daughter
GIULIA CAMINITO
was born in Rome in 1988. She graduated in Political alcohol and was a vivid personality, well known throughout
Philosophy at Roma Tre University. Her mother is an author the Italian communities in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her debut
of books for children. Her father, a writer as well, is originally novel, La grande A (2016), was awarded the Bagutta Prize.
form Asmara and his grandmother and grandfather met in Bompiani also published Un giorno verrà.
Assab. Her greatgrandmother drove a truck, sold contraband
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HIGHLIGHTS Yari Selvetella
The Rules of Lovers
L E RE GOL E DE GL I A M A NT I
Yari Selvetella depicts two thoughtless moment they meet, Iole’s and Sandro’s
and selfish characters, the scant Italian lives start turning around one question,
bourgeoisie of the 21st century, the flame how to protect their happiness from the
of a man and a woman glowing with their passing of time. They think they have
love for words, their need for authenticity an answer, or at least a starting point:
and for a great contemporary romance. they know what they do not want. They
want to escape boredom, but without
Falling in love when adults is always disrupting their lives. So they set a 30-
difficult: that unreasonable feeling year pact and a decalogue, in order to
exposes us and makes us take important experiment the charms of undercover
decisions. That is what happens to the love and to fully live their marriages and
main characters of this novel: since the children.
Y A R I S E LV E T E L L A
(Rome, 1976) published the novels La banda Tevere (2015)
and Le stanze dell’addio (Bompiani, 2018), longlisted for
the Strega Prize, and the poetry collection La maschera dei
gladiatori (2014). He works as a TV author for Rai Uno.
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L ONGL I S T E D F OR T HE 2 0 1 8 STR EG A PRIZE
W I T H LE STANZE DELL’ADDIO
“The novel tells both the power of love and its exceptionality
and even its seriousness when it finishes. It tries obsessively,
and therefore desperately, to free clandestine love from
imperfections.”
Francesco Piccolo, “La Lettura – Corriere della Sera”
“The Rules of Lovers stands as a fresco of the Italian
bourgeoisie ‘with few qualities’ on the glimpse of the new
millennium and, at the same time, as a literary investigation
on the possibility of great love, today.” “Il Libraio”
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11FICTION
NOIR Cristiano Governa
The Clarissine Strategy
LA STRATEGIA DELLA CLARISSA
An unusual detective story set between but a very unusual one: she likes bikinis,
Bologna and the Riviera Romagnola and dirty talk and his brother’s cooking.
played by a landlocked detective and his One day Paola finds out that someone
nun sister. is praying St. Catherine to make some
people die. At the same time Carlo has
Carlo Vento is a police inspector in to find a 15 y.o. girl who disappeared. A
Bologna: he loves old songs and good dead body is found in Romagna, by the
cooking, hates the sea and those fake TV sea, and Carlo must set off and try to
detectives. His sister Paola, beautiful and solve the case. Paola will be his helper.
restless, has become a Clarissine nun,
CRISTIANO GOVERNA
(1970) lives and works in Bologna. He is a journalist, a writer
and writes for the cinema and the theatre. He published the
novels Il catechista and the collection of short stories Le
lettere cattive and Baranowski.
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Bologna in summer is the perfect place
to disappear. And to kill.
A caustic noir full of poetry.
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NOIR Stefano Jacini
The Lady of Rue de Vaugirard
L A DA M A DI RUE DE V A UGI RA RD
A rug glued to the floor in a Parisian rug that has been glued to the drawing
apartment which is up for sale; a letter room floor and which Gorbio (who is
from Rossini to an over-insistent lover; not entirely unknown to the criminal
a marriage for money (or perhaps not); justice system) is set to recover at any
an unsigned painting... cost. Thus begins a witty detective story
teeming with music, culture and figures
At the Bibliothèque Nationale Camillo from the past: meet the portrait of a
Monghidoro is researching Rossini’s mysterious female traveller from which
years in Paris; at the same time he is the signature has been erased, a mature
also in the process of purchasing a flat noblewoman answering to the name
from Bruno Gorbio – the apartment in of Antea, her latest boyfriend Titto
which the vendor’s mother spent the Torbole, and the courteous owner of a
last ten years of her life. No one can crêperie located in the building where
fail to notice the magnificent Aubusson D’Artagnan may once have lived...
STEFANO JACINI
is a writer, editor, journalist and a lover of and an expert
in classical music. With Bompiani he has published Dio e
monsieur Divan, Tu non nascesti audace, L’invidia degli dei
and Mefisto Valzer.
STEFANO JACINI Music, art and irony for an elegant,
exhilarating detective story which invites
us to acknowledge the humour in human
absurdity.
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13FICTION
NOIR Silvana La Spina
Sister Death
SORELLA MORTE
A detective nun, a female police officer, a the aristocratic Pennisi di Floristella
case in the shadows of a cloister. family: Sister Benedetta’s cousin, Marilù,
a forty-year-old whose ex-husband lives
Catania. The convent of San Benedetto. in America and whose career to-date has
The nuns pray and teach. Their boarding- been somewhat erratic.
school pupils study, gossip and daydream, While Marilù does her best to
like all teenage girls. Until the convent’s disentangle a web of guilty silence with
gatekeeper, Sister Germana, enters the aid of a strange old man who talks
classroom B and finds Sister Barbara to a ghost, the young Sister Benedetta
stripped of her veil and lying in a pool is assisted by Maria, a simple soul and a
of blood. The Mother Superior instructs fine cook: a modern-day Sancho Panza in
Sister Benedetta to begin making holy orders who knows all too well that
enquiries into the murder. Meanwhile, when evil flourishes no one should be
the police officer investigating the crime terribly surprised.
just happens to be another member of
S I LV A N A L A S P I N A
is the author of a book of short stories entitled Scirocco (1997), Penelope (1998), La creata Antonia (winner of Premio
(1992, winner of Premio Chiara), and of several Vittorini), La continentale (2014) and L’uomo che veniva
novels, such as Morte a Palermo (1987, winner of da Messina (2015). She also the author of a series of three
Premio Mondello), L’ultimo treno da Catania (Bompiani novels featuring Inspector Maria Laura Gangemi: Uno sbirro
1992), Quando Marte è in Capricorno (Bompiani 1994), Un femmina (2007), La bambina pericolosa (2008) and Un
inganno dei sensi malizioso (1995), L’amante del paradiso cadavere eccellente (2011).
A black comedy powered by women
against the backdrop of a Sicily full
of mystery.
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14FICTION
NOIR Fausto Vitaliano
The Half-Moon Bay.
Gori Misticò’s Last Investigations
LA MEZZALUNA DI SABBIA. LE ULTIME INDAGINI DI GORI MISTICÒ
An inspector torn between the Nicola Strangio, an oncologist working
temptation to let evil triumph and the in Milan. Gori has cancer, probably
love for his beautiful land, Calabria. incurable. He travels to the north of
Italy for medication, but without much
Gregorio Misticò, known as Gori, is chief conviction.
inspector of the Carabinieri. Forty years Gori Misticò doesn’t want to be bothered
old, he has a twenty-centimetre scar in this crucial time of his life. But a
over his heart. After working with the heinous murder followed by another very
Anti-Terrorism Unit in Milan he returns elegant but no less suspicious death will
to San Telesforo Jonico, his hometown disrupt San Telesforo. The Vice Brigadier
in the South, and goes on leave. No Federico Costantino asks for his help.
one knows why, except his friend Gori refuses, but...
FAUSTO VITALIANO
was born in Calabria, but has been living in Milan for most of Together with Serra he wrote the monologue
his life. He is a screenwriter for Disney Italia and has written Tutti i santi giorni (produced by Teatro dei Filodrammatici
comic storylines for Sergio Bonelli, for Edizioni BD/Corriere in Milan). Among his books, the novels Era solo una
della Sera, and the French publisher BD Music. He has also promessa, Lorenzo Segreto and La grammatica della corsa,
worked in radio, TV and newspapers, has translated books, and the children’s non-fiction books La Repubblica a piccoli
and edited anthologies by Beppe Grillo and Michele Serra. passi and La musica a piccoli passi.
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A portrait of Calabria caught between
degradation and splendour. A classic
investigation with a contemporary pace.
THE FIRST NOVEL IN AN INTRIGUING SERIES.
THE SECOND NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED
IN JUNE 2021.
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Marta Barone
Sunken City
C ITT À S OM M E RS A
A semi-unknown father and his past to an armed band? And why did he never
be discovered. Terrorism in 1970s Turin. want to tell his daughter about those
years? Lawyers, old far-left-winged
A young woman, lonely and in love militants, archives and trial accounts
with literature, writes the chronicle of are voices that slowly make up the
her fight with her father’s death: the portrait of a complex and contradictory
two had shared a happy relationship man, a witness and a protagonist of a
during her happy childhood, a hard one complex and contradictory time. On the
during her teenage years. But now that background, Turin, city of rage, pain
the man is dead too many questions lay and hope, backdrop of violence that
unanswered: who was the young doctor- generated just deception and ruins.
worker who always sided with the poor, The novel of a man, of his families, of
who always had someone to save, who his choices, retold with love and fury.
was sentenced to jail for taking part in
MARTA BARONE
was born in Turin in 1987. She is a translator and wrote
three children’s books: Miriam delle cose perdute, I giardini
degli altri and I 7 colori per 7 pittori. This is her first novel
for adults.
WINNER 2020 ELIO VITTORINI PRIZE
LONGLISTED 2020 STREGA PRIZE
LONGLISTED 2020 CITTÀ DI MONCALIERI
LITERARY PRIZE
FINALIST 2020 SEVERINO CESARI
LITERARY PRIZE
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16FICTION
Giomaria Bellu
Children of the Moon
I BA M BI NI DE L L A L UNA
The story of a man who chose to live following Why this way to exit life? Giomaria Bellu
his ideas and failed. Stubborn, contradictory, tells this true story with the pace and
beloved, yet lonely to the terrible end of his passion of a novelist, propelled by being
life. The parable of a son of our times told the same age as Sgargy: they were both
from another son of our times who delves children of the Moon, just kids when man
into his life starting from his death. set foot on our satellite, born in an age of hope
and great expectations. What happened
Angelo Di Carlo was 54 and hopelessly then? A piece of investigative journalism built
unemployed when he took his life by setting on interviews and meetings with family
himself on fire in front of the Italian Parliament friends, travels in provincial Italy, visits
on August 11th 2012. It was summer, the time to former homes, following the footprints
of vacations and leisure, and the press ran very of a man who chose to be faithful to his
succinct reports of this terrible death. ideals and then lost faith. The portrait
Who was Angelo “Sgargy” Di Carlo, “the of a man and of a time when everything
Green Jan Palach”, as he was dubbed? seemed possible and then was not.
GIOMARIA BELLU
born in Cagliari, is a journalist and novelist. He worked for
“la Repubblica”, was coeditor at “L’Unità”, editor at “Left”,
“Sardegna 24” and “Sardinia Post”.
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17FICTION
Gianfranco Calligarich
Life at the Extreme
U NA V I T A A L L’E S T RE M O
The life of Vittorio Bottego, the Italian Società Geografica, thus gaining general
officer and explorer who crossed Equatorial attention and praise. He was back to
Africa at the end of the XIX century and Africa in 1892 for a new expedition
died on the battlefield, told by the brilliant with a company of scientists: the aim
literary voice of Last Summer in Town. was to cross Ethiopia and trace the
course of river Oma. But they were
Born in 1860, Vittorio Bottego was caught unawares by the open hostilities
an officer in the Sabaudian army and between Italy and Ethiopia and Bottego
left first for Africa in 1887 as part of was killed on the battlefield in 1897.
a special corps meant to explore some With his rich, rotund prose and peculiar
still widely unknown parts of Equatorial style that has won him the attention
Africa. His first feat was going from of the international literary milieu,
Massaua to Assab along the coast, Gianfranco Calligarich tells the story,
meanwhile collecting samples of local hopes, delusions, defeat of a forgotten
flora: a trip he then reported to the hero.
GIANFRANCO CALLIGARICH
was born in Asmara, Eritrea, from a family from Trieste. He He is author of many novels, among which L’ultima estate
grew up in Milan before moving to Rome where he worked in città, Principessa, Posta prioritaria, La malinconia dei
as a journalist and screenplayer. He wrote many successful Crusich (winner of ViareggioRèpaci Prize), Tre uomini in
programmes for RAI and in 1994 was the founder of the fuga.
Teatro XX Secolo. He was awarded many prizes for his plays.
WINNER OF 2017 VIAREGGIO-REPACI PRIZE
WITH LA MALINCONIA DEI CRUSICH
L’ULTIMA ESTATE IN CITTÀ IS BEING
TRANSLATED IN 13 LANGUAGES
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18FICTION
Enzo Fileno Carabba
The Imagined Lives of Vasari
V I T E S OGNAT E DE L V A S A RI
Fra Filippo Lippi and his gift for being biographies he has found the seeds of
forgiven. Verrocchio and the dangers of what develops into utterly fanciful (or
studying too hard. Andrea del Castagno entirely plausible) episodes via which he
and the bearing of grudges. Leon reintroduces us to the greatest artists of
Battista Alberti and his nostalgia... the Renaissance from a compelling new
angle. Each tale explores a state of mind
Vasari’s The Lives of the Artists is an or a state of grace. These are stories from
extraordinary document recounting the the past, but the emotions they portray
stories of the founding figures of Western are utterly contemporary. From Leonardo
art, but for many reasons it is also far da Vinci to Titian to Cimabue and
from accessible for most contemporary Michelangelo, the history of art becomes
readers. Inspired by Vasari’s Lives, an endless source of images and feelings
Carabba has embarked upon a piece of that enrich lives.
narrative archaeology: in each of Vasari’s
ENZO FILENO CARABBA
is the author of novels, short stories, radio plays, children’s di zucchero and La zia subacquea e altri abissi famigliari,
books and opera librettos. In 1990 he won the Premio as well as the middle-grade fantasy saga Fuga da
Calvino for the novel Jakob Pesciolini (1992), the first Magopoli and Battaglia a Magopoli. He writes for “Il Corriere
volume of a fantasy trilogy which also includes La regola Fiorentino” and “Corriere della Sera”. His novels have been
del silenzio (1994) and La foresta finale (1997). His other translated into several languages.
books have included Pessimi Segnali, Attila, Con un poco
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Giulia Contini
The Canary Room
L A S T A NZ A DE I C A NA RI NI
An intense, painful and brilliant story a gloomy unhappiness overcomes her.
about what it takes to find ourselves An encounter with Adele, a high school
through someone else. teacher who “inhabits space like morning
light peering through blinds”, will change
A girl’s path through her efforts to everything. It will bring the real Giulia
accept her own identity and to be back to life, with all the courage needed
accepted. The story of a difficult love. to keep a bond that her provincial world
Giulia was the perfect child: intelligent considers wrong. Adele can but surrender
and good at everything. Her parents herself to Giulia’s invincible passion,
considered her strong and independent, and all her resistance fails in the face
so much as to place her bedroom in of this immense love, which can only
the most remote part of the house: be freed once high school is over for
upstairs, where everything creaked, Giulia. And then Giulia and Adele will
and where the canaries were once have to confront the passing of time, the
kept. But when Giulia is in that room, changes.
GIULIA CONTINI
is the pen name of a writer from the Marche Region, Italy.
This is her debut novel.
A MUST READ BECAUSE:
This is a love story.
The story of a forbidden love, judged
and surrounded by eyes as sharp as thorns.
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20FICTION
Paolo Di Stefano
Us
N OI
The story of a family and the roots of starts a journey towards the future which
their unhappiness, the flashes of joy that has been denied to his brother Claudio.
leave spotted marks on their paths. It is also a journey the narrator conducts
into the past, with the feeling of someone
One day in April 1967. It’s raining, breathing behind him, a feeble voice
Italian singer Patty Pravo celebrates insinuating itself among his thoughts,
her nineteenth birthday, football player unwilling to be ignored. Di Stefano
Burgnich scores his second goal for Inter gathers and preserves traces of an entire
at San Siro against Bologna, and the life universe of non-prominent though very
of a family changes forever. One of the relevant lives, gathering them around,
children playing in the living room is the finding the strength to evoke and say
author of this story. In the next room, his goodbye for ever to his little brother, at
younger brother is dying of leukaemia, a once loved, envied, tormented and lost.
disease for which the following year there
will be a cure. On this day the narrator
PAOLO DI STEFANO
was born in Avola, Sicily; he is a correspondent for “Corriere (with Massimo Siragusa, 2018). Under the nom de plume
della Sera”. He has published poems, short stories, Nino Motta he has published La parrucchiera di Pizzuta
investigation reports, and novels such as La catastròfa. (Bompiani, 2017). He has won several literary awards, such
Marcinelle 8 agosto 1956 (2011), Giallo d’Avola (2013), as Grinzane Cavour, SuperFlaiano, SuperVittorini, Campiello,
I pesci devono nuotare (2015) and Respirano i muri Volponi, Lo Straniero, and Viareggio-Rèpaci.
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Davide D’Urso
The Famished
I FAMELICI
A father and a son, two different ways of precarious jobs, dreaming of opening
living, two generations coming out from his bookshop. Two generations clashing,
the same lower provincial middle class regrets and silences bursting: possibly
now in deep crisis. the only way to reconcile this deep
fracture and to rebuild a working
Two deeply different men, the father relationship will be regrouping around
– who won everything he wanted in the idea of family and the call of their
his life – and the son, a testament to common roots.
our difficult times, balancing between
D AV I D E D ’ U R S O
A bookseller and author, he is head of the Neapolitan branch
of che Coop Bookshop. Among his former books Il paese che
non voleva cambiare and Tra le macerie.
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Fulvio Ervas
The Little Book
of Prodigious Insects
P IC C OL O L I BRO DI E NT OM OL OGI A FAN TASTICA
A gang of children fascinated by insects butterfly house is to be found. Emily,
and disappointed in adults. A villa filled Melchior, Mr Flood, Madame Lamarr
with pensioners and butterflies. and Greenway, the time doctor, are the
villa’s not-so-youthful residents, and each
Daisy, Red, Imre, Ebony and Saul: out-of- one of them is there for a precise and
the-ordinary names for out-of-the-ordinary secret reason. This is the story of the
children. Children who feel stifled in their extraordinary things that happen when the
grey home town with its distant and rather melancholy patience of old age encounters
hopeless adults. Only the strange the hopeful, hungry urgency of youth. In
exoskeletons and preposterous iridescence describing the tiniest of nature’s creatures,
of insects arouse the gang’s enthusiasm. this is a book that talks about us – because
In the search for new specimens to add to life’s tough carapace can and does crack
their collection, the kids set off towards open, revealing wings ready for the miracle
the villa in which, it is said, a huge of flight.
F U LV I O E RV A S
is a science teacher and a writer. In 1999 he was joint and much-translated Se ti abbraccio non aver paura [Don’t
winner of the Premio Calvino, sharing the prize with Paola Be Afraid if I Hug You] which in 2019 became a film (Volare/
Mastrocola. Since then he has published a host of books, Tutto il mio folle amore) directed by Gabriele Salvatores
including Tu non tacere, Follia docente, Nonnitudine, the and starring Valeria Golino, Claudio Santamaria and Diego
eight Inspector Stucky novels, from which a film starring Abatantuono.
Giuseppe Battiston was made in 2017, and the much-loved
A novel about the passing of time
and the force of nature linking
generations.
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Mario Fortunato
South
SUD
A tale of love and loss set in Calabria, stopped in their travels and happily settled,
where the Greeks stopped and settled. a land now full of ruins and sun, the novel
The story of a middle class family in takes us back at the time when notaries
southern Italy throughout the last century. and lawyers were undiscussed authorities
in small towns. Meet the Notaio, his lover
The story of a middle class family in Magda, a Polish countess and a spy, and
Calabria from the beginning of the 20th delve into their love story in Naples; meet
century to our times told from the point the Farmacista, owner of the first chemist’s
of view of Valentino, set to leave southern shop in town, his wife Lea and their
Italy in the Seventies as a young man in children; follow the paths where these lives
order to find a better life elsewhere, and cross, and Tamara, Mara for short, marries
then bound in his middle age to rake into the Notaio’s family; get to know
through and rebuild memories of old like charming Uncle Giorgio, an extravagant
all of us do when looking for roots. Set loner, owner of two small Gauguins, and
in Magna Grecia, the land where Greeks Gioacchino, the house ghost...
M A R I O F O R T U N AT O
has published the following books with Bompiani: Luoghi the Mondello and Super Mondello-Città di Palermo Prizes),
naturali, Immigrato (with Salah Methnani), I giorni innocenti Quelli che ami non muoiono, Tre giorni a Parigi, Le voci di
della guerra (finalist for the 2007 Strega Prize and winner of Berlino, Noi tre and Tutti i nostri errori.
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“The novel’s great theme is the return, the
dream of returning, the horror of the return,
the substantial impossibility of returning.”
Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti, “Corriere della Sera”
“Beautiful, gorgeous, sensual, seductive
and magnetic since the cover image,
Mario Fortunato’s new book is a journey
through time, history, space, passions.”
Francesco Mannoni, “Giornale di Brescia”
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Mario Fortunato
Those You Love Do Not Die
Q U E L L I C HE A M I NON M UOI ONO
Mario Fortunato’s friends, cities, writers, behind a door; Natalia Ginzburg, afraid
encounters, sceneries, landscapes, real of speaking in public; Alberto Moravia,
and heart’s geographies. dying in a moment of distraction; Agota
Kristof’s nastiness; Hanif Kureishi’s
Borges, who know people through sweet roughness; Giorgio Bassani’s
their hands; Pier Vittorio Tondelli, who absent-minded look; Paul Bowles’
looks at the Greek sea for the last time; loneliness. And then Rome, Berlin, New
Giulio Einaudi, who eats a chicken with York, Tangeri, London. A life in books,
Nanni Moretti; Salman Rushdie, hiding writers and places.
M A R I O F O R T U N AT O
has published the following books with Bompiani: Luoghi the Mondello and Super Mondello-Città di Palermo Prizes),
naturali, Immigrato (with Salah Methnani), I giorni innocenti Tre giorni a Parigi, Le voci di Berlino, Noi tre, Tutti i nostri
della guerra (finalist for the 2007 Strega Prize and winner of errori and Sud.
A NEW EDITION WITH NEW VOICES,
PEOPLE AND STORIES
FINALIST 2007 STREGA PRIZE
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Loredana Lipperini
The Night Is Coming
L A NOTT E S I AVV I C I NA
An ancient evil, embodied in illnesses, that prevent anybody from going in and
in unsolved crimes, in carnages: a theme out, unsecure, fearful and angry people
dear to the author, here intertwined with live: the feral mothers who make social
supernatural phenomena that make the services take too much interest in Maria
readers fight their own fears. and her children; Chiara, alone and lost
in her world of visions, dreams, punitive
2008: the year that changed everything, angels; Saretta, seventy years old, with
the year of the economic crash, when her total dominion over Vallescura, the
indifference reached its peak. In a little village hurt by the earthquake which
isolated village, surrounded by soldiers hides a secret and seems to attract evil.
LOREDANA LIPPERINI
is a writer, a journalist for “la Repubblica” and the voice (2007), L’ho uccisa perché l’amavo with Michela Murgia
of “Fahrenheit”, Radio 3. Her blog Lipperatura has been a (2013), the children’s book Pupa (Rrose Sélavy, 2013).
meeting point for literary, cultural and political debate since Bompiani published L’arrivo di Saturno (2017), the collection
2004. She published gothic novels under the nom de plum of short stories Magia nera (2019) and the new edition of Non
Lara Manni and the essays Ancora dalle parte delle bambine è un paese per vecchie (2020).
“I’m never sure about my gestures:
there is no accord between me and the
surrounding space! When I move, I have
to disentangle myself from thousands
of invisible knots.”
Upon all the things in her life, Jarre casts
the same detached, alienating and slightly
ironic gaze.
Marta Barone
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Melissa Magnani
Teodoro
A debut novel about the sacredness of oblivious of his existence. His life is a
family bonds. secret buried in memory. But Teodoro
speaks, talks, reveals. He gets closer,
Teodoro is a child who anybody from touches, comforts his brothers and parents
lived for eleven days. He now occupies with love, tenderness and complicity.
a place suspended in mid-air. From The scattered splinters of each existence
there he observes life happening after recompose in Teodoro’s whispering voice,
him. He retraces his places, under the in a country village where life rhythms
bell tower, in the field where horses are follow the seasons, the rituals of the land,
resting, inside his house. He looks again the migration of birds.
for his place in his mother’s arms, among A child who is not there, who was there
his father’s words. He pronounces the when too little, and who follows the lives
names of his brothers: Ero, Gedeone, Ada, of his nine brothers born after him like a
Abele, Zaira, Giacinto, Libero, Pellegrino, devoted small shadow.
and Mario. Nine, all born after him, all
MELISSA MAGNANI
was born in Correggio in 1992, and when not in Correggio,
she spends her time in Bologna, working in art and fashion.
This is her debut novel.
A debut novel of sensitivity and
substance, suffused with the timeless
immutable stuff of rural life.
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27FICTION
Mahsa Mohebali
Tehran girl
A gripping novel that overturns the Switzerland, her doll face collapses and
cliché of the objectified women and is replaced by that of the girl born and
tells us about Iran’s past and present raised in a Communist lair during the
thanks to a blunt, explicit and irreverent revolution. Was it her who reported her
writing, refusing to compromise with family with the photos that pasdaran had
any kind of censorship. found in her diary? Or did someone else
use her to break her parents’ cover and
Elham is the charming secretary of an stop the political fight that was leading
Iranian businessman. She is used to be them to ruin? Now she is looking for an
obliging and nice, to be considered just answer and navigating between traffic,
for her looks and to take orders, even work issues, pretenders, her opium-
from herself. But when her boss reveals addicted mother, her lazy brother and her
that her father is alive and living in ex’ still staying at her place.
MAHSA MOHEBALI
was born and lives in Teheran. She is a writer, a screenwriter three novels. In 2013 she took part in the International
and a literary critic, very well known and admired in her Writing Program of Iowa University. Her works have been
country. She published two collections of short stories and translated into Italian, Turkish, English and Swedish.
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28FICTION
Lia Piano
Planimetry of a Happy Family
P L A NI M E T RI A DI UNA F A M I GL I A F ELICE
Are all the families alike? A funny, clever dangerously fond of chemistry; and la
and a bit magic debut novel. Nana, who tells the story from her 6 y.o.
point of view. And then there’s the big
Father can draw, loves the sea, villa on the hill, where the family has just
challenges gravity laws and is building moved to put down roots and, finally,
a sail boat in the basement; Mother is become normal. But in order to do so
beautiful, wears high heels and keeps they should shush away the animals of
stacks of books around herself; Mary, the all kind that keep coming to live there;
nurse, speaks in strict Calabrese dialect, to shut the doors and the windows to
can’t read and her heart is bigger than keep the wind at bay; to stop sleeping
the garden around the house. Then there all together on the floor to enjoy the
are the three children: Marco, struggling moonlight... But what if the planimetry of
with puberty; Gioele, stuttering and a happy family is just that?
LIA PIANO
was born in Genoa in 1972. She has been working with his
father at the Renzo Piano Foundation since 2004. She lives
between Paris, Genoa and any other place in the world.
“An original story, fairy and funny,
about a childhood and a life, where
the only true privilege is happiness.”
“Il Libraio”
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Aurelio Picca
The Greatest Criminal in Rome
Was a Friend of Mine
I L P I Ù GRA NDE C RI M I NA L E DI ROMA È STATO AMICO MIO
A look straight into the life of a criminal Bianciardi, a man living in a small
that has never been told before. pensione on Lake Albano. At the age of
Fiction is intertwined with testimonies twenty, not even, Alfredo meets Lallo
selected from courtroom trial documents. and is stricken by him. He becomes his
accomplice, except he has never killed.
Seven homicides, four kidnappings, eleven Today, while recalling his friendship and
sentencings, two successful escapes from almost filial relationship with the ferocious
prison. Ludovino De Sanctis is a name criminal, Alfredo goes back over his own
that made Rome tremble in the Sixties. life. He goes around with a cattle-gun,
Called “The Beast” as well as “Lallo and wants to kill or die. In his head
the Lame”, he took part in robberies there is only one track: the lullaby his
with the underworld Marsigliesi clan, daughter Monique used to sing as a child.
and was a heinous assassin. Never has Monique, like Lallo’s daughter, who has
literature or cinema told his story before. suffered violence, and must be revenged...
The protagonist of this story is Alfredo
AURELIO PICCA
was born in Velletri. He has published, amongst other Bellissima (1999), Sacrocuore (2003), Via Volta della morte
works, the compendium Per punizione (1990), the collection (2006), Se la fortuna è nostra (2011, Premio Hemingway
of short stories La schiuma (1992), and the novels L’esame and Premio Flaiano). Bompiani has published Addio (2012),
di maturità (1995), I mulatti (1996), Tuttestelle (1998, Un giorno di gioia (2014) and the civil poem L’Italia è
Premio Alberto Moravia, Superpremio Grinzane Cavour), morta, io sono l’Italia (2011).
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“Marvellous and wicked: Picca’s Rome, as it has always
been.” Corrado Augias
“Reading Aurelio Picca is a pleasure that leaves you
exhausted, wanting to start again, but not immediately. You
have to catch your breath.” Paolo Fallai, “Corriere della Sera”
“Aurelio Picca’s verbal exuberance is equal only to that
of his writing: it can start from classicism but turn
lightning-fast into something very visceral, carnal, until
it reaches the forms of the most extreme provocation.”
“Il Venerdì di Repubblica”
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Alcide Pierantozzi
The Inconvenience of Being Loved
L’I NC ONV E NI E NT E DI E S S E RE A M ATI
A young musician who returns to her child in a tiring marriage, and falls
Abruzzo from Milan, his passion for his in love with her, against all his logical
aunt, his desire to love without prejudice, thoughts and predictions. Victim of a
breaking away from rules. brutal man, Sonia becomes the centre
of a new project for Paride, but he will
Paride is 33 years old and dreams of have to leave again to make it work.
becoming a famous singer, but maybe it’s Around them, Manolo, the beach boy,
too late for him. His secret relationship sensitive and intriguing under his bully’s
with an older and powerful man suddenly skin; Gianmaria, the small nephew; and
ceases. He has no choice but to leave a crowd of marginal characters, like
Milan and go back to Abruzzo, to live the forgetful ex-teacher and the Korean
in his grandparents’ house together acrobatic diver, populating the days and
with his uncle and his uncle’s family. nights of the Riviera.
Here Paride gets to know Sonia, his
beautiful and surly aunt, trapped with
ALCIDE PIERANTOZZI
was born in 1985 in San Benedetto del Tronto. He published
his first book Uno in diviso in 2006, also as a graphic novel.
This is his first title with Bompiani. He writes for newspapers
and magazines.
A disarming and painful story, that tells
us how complex it is to understand what
attracts us and to which extent we can
fight to love and be loved.
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31FICTION
Alessandro Raveggi
Big Karma.
Carlo Coccioli’s Lives
G RA NDE KA RM A . V I T E DI C A RL O C O CCIOLI
An on-the-road novel on the footsteps chases his traces around the world. Coccioli
of one of the most enigmatic Italian was a very original author who wrote in Italian,
writers, Carlo Coccioli, on his 100th birth Spanish and French, a partisan, an animal
anniversary. rights guru, the first one to openly speak about
the challenges facing homosexuals in
Following the great success of Piccolo Karma Catholic Italy. Close to Malaparte and Cocteau,
will we finally get to read the mysterious he was a finalist of Premio Campiello. Perhaps
Grande Karma? Author and critic Walter Siti it was the multifaceted nature of his genius
wrote: “One of the most striking elements in which caused his fall into oblivion. Travelling
Coccioli’s narration is the genuine authenticity between Mexico, Paris and Florence, and
with which he refuses the idea of a literature above all, on the fine line between reality
independent from life.” In such a spirit Raveggi and fiction, this book uses the instruments
has chosen to tell us about the writer through of art to explore the enigma of one of
the story of his own life, recounting the the most menacing and fascinating
adventures of a young researcher who intellectuals of the twentieth century.
A L E S S A N D R O R AV E G G I
(1980) lives in Florence and teaches Literature at New York He also edited the anthology of short stories Panamericana
University. He founded and directed the literary magazine (2016). He writes about books and culture for national
“The FLR”. He wrote the novel Nella vasca dei terribili and international magazines, amongst which “Wired”
piranha (2012); a collection of short stories Il grande regno and “Esquire”. He is foreign fiction editor at LiberAria
dell’emergenza (2016), four collections of poems, a book on publishing house.
Italo Calvino, and an introduction to David Foster Wallace.
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“Make yourself evanescent, be more elusive than a cloud.”
Jean Cocteau to Carlo Coccioli
“Big Karma is a self-reflecting amusement park that
reflects itself, a very accurate love story. Because that’s
the only way we can keep the memory of someone alive:
by making it a love story.” Elena Stancanelli, “Rivista Studio”
“A very compelling travel and adventure novel.”
Angelo Ferracuti, “Il Manifesto”
“A novel that stands out in our landscape for modernity
and structural freshness.” Vanni Santoni, Linus
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Igiaba Scego
T h e Colour Line. Lafanu Brown’s
Grand Tour
L A L I NE A DE L C OL ORE . I L GRA ND TO U R DI LAFAN U BR O WN
Italy, the last years of 19th century. the indignation bursts out. In that very
A black American woman painter. moment an American woman, a painter,
Italy, 2019. An Italian woman writer Lafanu Brown, who has been living in
of Ethiopian origins, an expert in Rome for years, is strolling around the
colonialism. An intense historical novel city. She is black and the rage of the
that looks at our past out of love for our crowd takes it out on her, but a man
future. sees it all and saves her. His name is
Ulisse, and Lafanu tells her story: her
December 26th, 1887: at Dogali, birth in a Chippewa tribe, abolitionism
Eritrea, five hundred Italian soldiers are and violence, the big choice that took her
killed during a fight against Ethiopian onboard a ship to England and Italy, far
troops. When the news get to Rome from love but possibly closer to freedom.
IGIABA SCEGO
was born in Rome in 1974. She writes for “Internazionale”,
“Lo straniero”, “La Repubblica”. Among her books: Pecore
nere, Oltre Babilonia, La mia casa è dove sono (2011
Mondello Prize), Roma negata.
S C E GO’S FIRST N OVEL, BEYOND BABYLON ,
HA S BE E N PU BLISH ED BY TWO
L I NE S P RESS WITH A FOR EWOR D
BY JHUM P A LAH IRI.
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33FICTION
Francesca Scotti
Vital Capacity
C AP A C I T À V I T A L E
A piercing novel about the struggle to with Damiano, Nora, Enrico, Nora’s 15
find a centre for oneself. y.o. daughter Zoe, and Matteo. They
go diving together, as usual, but Nora
An underwater incident, a girl alone, a doesn’t resurface and the holidays ends
young lawyer bored with her job. The tale in a tragic way. Some months later, Zoe
of a woman stuck between vocation and shows up at Adele’s doorstep and the
moral, selfishness and generosity. young woman decides to welcome the
lonely girl. Her new relationships with
Adele is a young lawyer who never Zoe and Matteo compels her to face
pauses or relaxes apart from when scuba responsibilities and rooting, something
diving with some fellows. During one she’s always fled.
of these short holidays she meets again
F R A N C E S C A S C O TT I
was born in Milan. After her law degree she started writing
short stories and novels and now lives between Italy and
Japan. Bompiani also published Ellissi (2017).
“Francesca Scotti’s strength lies
in her penetrating descriptive ability,
in her fine instinct to find the biological
matter the life is made of,
in her subtle earing keen to find
in a handful of sounds the meaning
of a story.”
“La Lettura – Corriere della Sera”
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Umberto Silva
Turmac Bleu
A C URA DI M A RT A BA RONE
Family ties, Rome in the Sixties, loving liveliest ever, brimming with creative
and letting go: a charming novel built on energy and intellectual engagement: the
short stories told in an exquisitely spare right place to thrive for a Renaissance
literary prose by an eclectic filmmaker man such as Umberto Silva. Who then
and analyst. steered to psychoanalysis and made
another job of it. Turmac Bleu collects
Umberto Silva is one of a kind. As the best of his literary writing, originally
beautiful as an actor (and he was an actor scattered in short stories and poetry
in his youth), an art historian, a director, collections: the young, talented Marta
a critic, a screenwriter, he involved all Barone, author of the much acclaimed
his friends (among which Moravia and Sunken City, worked closely with him in
Raffaele La Capria) in his movie projects. order to build up from his writings the
The Roman milieu was at the time the novel of his life.
U M B E RT O S I LV A
Born in 1943 in Northern Italy, as a young man he settled
in Rome where he worked as a reviewer, actor, director and
filmmaker, taking part in the brilliant cultural life of the city.
Then he devoted his life to psychoanalysis. He now lives in
Padova.
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Alice Zanotti
Every Missed Meeting
An Imaginary Portrait of Amelia Rosselli
T UTT I GL I A P P UNT A M E NT I M A NC ATI
U N RI T RATT O I M M A GI NA RI O DI A M ELIA R O SSELLI
One of the most relevant and mysterious participation of a young woman in love,
Italian intellectuals of 20th century comes who brightens every minimal detail and
to life in these pages. freely imagines what history does not
tell. She recalls the tearing relationship
Amelia Rosselli was the daughter of with Rosselli’s mother and father, the
anti-fascist activist and martyr Carlo many languages heard and spoken, the
Rosselli and Alberto Moravia’s aunt; houses, the meetings, the books, and the
she was a musician and an absolutely voices. Everything disassembles and re-
unique poetess. Plenty has been assembles as if in an undertow, delivering
written about her, but this book is a page after page the heart-breaking and
work through her. Alice Zanotti has impossible portrait of a woman with a
decided to tell her biography not as painful life, but with an extraordinary and
a biographer, but with the visionary inimitable voice.
A L I C E Z A N O TT I
was born in Bologna in 1985, and currently lives in
Turin, where she works at “Circolo dei lettori”. Tutti gli
appuntamenti mancati is her first book.
I came back, because I know something
well only when I lose it, in the exact
moment I arrive late, and miss the
appointment.
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Athos Zontini
Beautiful Indifference
L A BE L L A I NDI F F E RE NZ A
The story of a man who sees all the faces showing them in their whole inexpressive
around him disappear. A book about nakedness. Gradually his loneliness grows,
loneliness, isolation and mal de vivre. and he becomes more and more ferocious,
thorny, unaffected by daily life and rituals.
One day Ettore Corbo finds out he can no Indifferent to the political climate getting
longer see people’s faces. They have been tenser around him, Ettore closes himself off
replaced by a void, an oval void stretched the rest of the world while another possible
over their faces like the one of mannequins. life seems to disclose, as absurd as the life
Medical tests do not give measurable of a flat-faced mannequin can be. A tense
results, and for Ettore, a tired accountant and terrifying book, cruel and merciless,
working in the family business and trapped reflecting in the deformed story of an
in a joyless marriage, there is no way to individual the indifferent drifting of an
escape this partial blindness, a blindness entire world.
concealing others from him; or perhaps
AT H O S Z O N T I N I
lives in Naples and works as a screenwriter for the TV series
Un posto al sole. Bompiani has also published his book
Orfanzia (2016).
P RA I S E F O R ORFANZIA
“A dense story, measured by the seasons
and by a lean writing.”
“Internazionale”
“A work with an admirable ability to
transcribe what is incommunicable.”
“Zest”
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37modern classics
BOMPIANIFICTION
MODERN CLASSICS Gesualdo Bufalino
The Plague Sower
D IC E RI A DE L L’UNT ORE
A late 20th century classic, written in tuberculosis at a Palermo sanatorium just
1950, but published only in 1981 thanks after World War II. The narrator loves
to Bufalino’s friend Leonardo Sciascia Marta, the ballerina, is a case in point,
who discovered his talent. The story of a as this is a relationship that can work
sanatorium where the feelings of death within the hospital only. The director of
and being trapped are everywhere; the tale the sanatorium is jealous, even though
of a community that is cut off from the rest he is more in love with the bottle than
of the world and has to try and function with Marta. Guiding the reader through
according to its own values and rules. a haunting landscape of doom, Bufalino
evokes the horrors of wartime. Elegant
“I visit myself as a foreign tourist”, and arresting, the writing moves seamlessly
explains the narrator of this autobiographical beyond the particularity of individual
novel as, from the distance of several experience to confront the mysteries
decades, he explores his memories of two around which our lives ebb and flow.
years spent undergoing treatment for
GESUALDO BUFALINO
was born in Comiso, Sicily, in 1920 and died in 1996. He L’isola nuda (1988), Le menzogne della notte (1988, Premio
was a teacher and a translator for many decades and Strega), Il matrimonio illustrato (1989), Saldi d’autunno
spent a secluded life in his hometown, establishing himself (1990), Qui pro quo (1991), Argo il cieco (1992), Calende
among the finest Italian writers of the 20th century only in greche (1992), Il Guerrin Meschino (1993), Museo d’ombre
his late years with Diceria dell’untore, which gained the (1993), Bluff di parole (1994), Tommaso e il fotografo cieco
1981 Supercampiello Prize. Among his book, all published (1996), Dizionario dei personaggi di romanzo (2000).
by Bompiani: L’uomo invaso (1986), Il malpensante (1987),
WINNER OF THE 1981 SUPERCAMPIELLO PRIZE
BOMPIANI MODERN Pages: 240
RIGHTS LIST CLASSICS Publication: 1981 (1992, 2016)
Price: e 12,00
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