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Buchmesse 2017
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I N D E X
• Fiction 3
• Non-fiction 24
• Children’s Books 39
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Silva Gentilini
LE FORMICHE NON HANNO LE ALI
(Ants do not have wings)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 168 · RELEASE DATE: NOV 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
BASED ON AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FACTS, ANTS DO NOT HAVE WINGS IS
THE STORY OF TWO WOMEN SHARING THE SAME TRAGIC FATE: THEY
ARE BOTH FORCED TO GIVE UP THEIR FIRSTBORNS FOR ADOPTION.
TO BE PUBLISHED BY MONDADORI FOR THE “INTERNATIONAL DAY
FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN”.
In the ’70s, Emma is a girl who constantly suffers from her father’s tyr-
anny and abuses. Her mother, sister and grandmother can do nothing
against him, because no one can overcome his depression and deep
F I C T I O N
anger issues. When Emma is 17, her father rapes her. After she finds out
she’s pregnant with his child, her only option is to follow her mother’s
English sample available
advice and give up the baby, leaving him in the hands of a sleazy and
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unknown doctor.
At the beginning of the century, Margherita falls in love with a boy from
a very rich family. Since she’s a girl of humble background, she has no
one to turn to when he impregnates her. After being separated from her
baby, she decides to emigrate. Only 16, she promises herself that she’ll
come back one day to reunite with her child, and then she leaves for
New York. America will give her a new life, four husbands, other chil-
dren and a career as businesswoman. Eventually, she will find a way to
connect with her son, but she’ll never be able to see him gain.
Despite being decades apart, these two dark, bloody and brave lives
will unexpectedly cross when, after her
mother’s death and her father’s suicide,
Emma decides to trace down the family
that took in her baby.
Telling the true story of one of her ances-
tors and, most of all, her own, Silva Gen-
tilini raises a painfully honest and grace-
fully bold shout for redemption.
Born in 1961, SILVA GENTILINI worked
for more than twenty years as story-editor
for an Italian TV station. She was also a
free-lance journalist for «Cosmopolitan»
e «Moda». Ants do not have wings is her
first novel.
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Vito di Battista
L’ULTIMA DIVA DICE ADDIO
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 208 · RELEASE DATE: FEB 2018 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(Goodbye, Molly Buck)
“A DEBUT NOVEL THAT SINGS AS THE VOICE-OVER BEHIND
A MASTERPIECE”.
1977, New Year’s Eve. Once a famous movie star, Molly Buck dies in a private
clinic in Florence. Sitting just outside the front gate, there is a young man that
she chose as her biographer.
This is the beginning of a backwards tale that follows Molly Buck’s career,
from her retirement to the splendour of her younger years. In their sleepless
nights together, the narrator meticulously had recorded his muse’s memo-
F I C T I O N
ries while the old beautiful city was embracing them as if it was a third, silent
protagonist.
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The life of Molly Buck unfolds now through their voices as the narrator re-
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calls everything he discovered: the story of her son Philip, a Baptist preacher
born when she was 16 and still living in a poor village in Alabama; the fate of
her sister Anne, a prostitute by choice, after a law that in 1958 closed down
every brothel in Italy; the ups and downs of her career, from scandals to birth-
day parties, and the mysterious romance between Molly Buck and Mr Edward
Windmill.
But Molly Buck’s biography is soon revealed to be an expedient for the nar-
rator to tell his own biography, until the very end where all certainties will be
questioned again.
With every chapter beginning with the same phrase and the whole story
moving in reverse, Goodbye, Molly Buck
is a circular novel on memory and its lies,
investigating the power of words and how
it can be able to redeem a whole existence.
Born in 1986, VITO DI BATTISTA studied
Comparative Literature in Florence and Bolo-
gna. During his studies, he focused on Poetry
(especially by Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and
Hart Crane) and on the work of authors like
Romain Gary, Tarjei Vesaas and J.M. Barrie.
He writes on «Nuovi Argomenti» magazine,
published by Mondadori.
His debut novel will be published by SEM -
Società Editrice Milanese, founded by Ric-
cardo Cavallero and directed by Antonio
Riccardi.
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Claudio Morandini
LE FAMOSE MASCHERE DI POCACOSA
(The famous masks of Pocacosa)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 160 · RELEASE DATE: JUL 2018 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
AFTER THE SUCCESS OF NEVE, CANE, PIEDE, CLAUDIO
MORANDINI RETURNS TO HIS MOUNTAINS TO WRITE A
PRISTINE AND CHARMING COMING-OF-AGE TALE THAT
SALANI WILL PROUDLY PUBLISH ON 2018.
Pocacosa is a little village in the Alps where, every year at Carnival, everyone
wears a mask. But not the kind of masks one could think of. Extravagant,
elaborate and fanciful, those masks are people’s protection, so that they can
run after each other, get back at someone and play bizarre pranks. For one
night, everything is permitted. The only rule is that, one minute before mid-
J U V E N I L E
night, everyone must go back to reality.
Remigio is a smart and shy young boy. He’s the top of his class and, now that
Carnival time is here, he’s well aware that his schoolmates will make him pay
for this. And that is the reason why Remigio decides to arm himself: he builds
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a majestic, iron mask, so that he can be taller and scarier than everyone else
in his class. But someone finds out about his plan and, on the eve of Carnival,
his mask gets destroyed.
Remigio has no other choice but to run away to the mountains, where he
eventually meets the old, mythic Bonifacio, a hermit on whose account all
kinds of terrible stories are told.
But every legend has its share of artificiality, and so Remigio finds in Bonifacio
the helping hand he was needing all along.
Once famous as a most industrious and experienced masks-maker, this old
and wise man will build with Remigio an armour made of wood, leaves and
birds’ nests. The most marvellous mask that Pocacosa has ever seen.
Under a shell that will make him invincible, Remigio will find the courage
to face his enemies. And, above anything else, he will learn that fear is not a
weapon that one should raise on others, but a feeling that we all must try and
control. For our own sake.
CLAUDIO MORANDINI lives in Aosta. He wrote comedies for the radio, monologues
for the theatre and several novels.
His previous novel A gran giornate won “Città di Trebisacce”
Literary Prize in 2013.
His account Dita fredde is included in the italian-american
Santi – Lives of Modern Saints (Black Arrow Press, Baltimora,
2007).
Neve, cane, piede, a Top 10 Italian best-sellers novel, has
been sold to France, Chile and Turkey so far.
In 2018, Salani will publish his YA story The famous masks
of Pocacosa and, from 2019, his new novels will be published
by Bompiani.
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Claudio Morandini
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 144 · RELEASE DATE: NOV 2015 (4° ED. FEB 2017) · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
NEVE, CANE, PIEDE
(Snow, Dog, Foot)
NUMBER 5 ON ITALIAN BEST-SELLERS LIST, FEBRUARY 2017.
SOLD TO FRANCE, CHILE AND TURKEY.
“Le chien, la neige, un pied est un récit saisissant et cruel, déroutant, sem-
blabe à ces histoires légendaires que l’on aime à raconter à la veillée”.
WINNER OF “PREMIO PROCIDA-ISOLA DI ARTURO-ELSA MORANTE” 2016
Florence Courriol-Seita, «Le Monde»
SOLD TO: FRANCE (Anacharsis), CHILE (Edicola), TURKEY (Timaş)
“One of the most competent and astonishing novelist of our literary scene”.
Umberto Rossi, «Pulp libri»
“If you wish to combine a boundless fantasy with a philosophy of life that
knows no lies, Morandini is the one for you. He is simply one of the great-
WINNER OF “MODUS LEGENDI” 2017
F I C T I O N
est Italian writers of our time”.
Fabrizio Ottaviani, «il Giornale»
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“This is an impeccable short novel, full of attention to detail and musical
rhythm”.
Fabrizio Coscia, «il Mattino»
In the Alps, there is a lonesome valley where the old and scatterbrained Adel-
mo Farandola wanders, crazy with solitude.
Adelmo’s only companion is a nagging dog; together they form an unusual
comic pairing, since Adelmo is able to understand its talking as well as those
of other animals of the mountains. He also understands the voices of the
wind, the sky, and even of the dead.
Struggling in the wild and hostile nature around him, we follow him in the
changing of seasons and in the repetitiveness of his actions: but then one day,
as spring arrives, Adelmo and his dog notice
a foot in the melting snow.
Snow, dog, foot is a strange little book that
one can read cover to cover, enchanted by
its characters and their sarcastic profundity.
CLAUDIO MORANDINI lives in Aosta. He wrote
comedies for the radio, monologues for the thea-
tre and several novels.
His previous novel A gran giornate (In great days)
won “Città di Trebisacce” Literary Prize in 2013.
His account Dita fredde (Cold fingers) is included
in the italian-american Santi – Lives of Modern
Saints (Black Arrow Press, Baltimora, 2007).
In 2018, Salani will publish his YA story The fa-
mous masks of Pocacosa and, from 2019, his new
novels will be published by Bompiani.
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Liliana Manfredi
IL NAZISTA E LA BAMBINA
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 96 · RELEASE DATE: 2008 (7° ED. SEP 2016) · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(The Nazi and the Child)
A TRUE STORY
7° PRINT
40,000 COPIES SOLD
“THAT SOLDIER SAVED MY LIFE NOT OUT OF PITY, BUT BECAUSE OF THE
SCHOOL EDITION BY FABBRI EDITORE/RIZZOLI EDUCATION (2015)
DISGUST OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING. THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO BELIEVE”.
MOVIE ADAPTATION LA RUGIADA DI SAN GIOVANNI (2016)
Liliana Manfredi
“This story is like a flower blossomed from an heap of atrocity”.
Beppe Carletti, soundtrack composer
F I C T I O N
Liliana Manfredi was the only survivor of a Nazi massacre in June
1944. She was 11 years old when 35 innocent civilians were killed
at Bettola, on the hills of Reggio Emilia. But Liliana’s story has
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something more that makes it unique. After witnessing her
family’s massacre, she was brave enough to escape to the
river. There, with a broken leg and three bullets in her body,
the miracle happened: a Nazi soldier discovered Liliana
hidden in the grass and, instead of giving her the death-
blow, he took her and gently left her on the main road,
risking the martial court in order to save her life.
Not a simple diary of that terrible night of war and
horrors, this book is the story of how, even when
the worst instincts seem to prevail, there is always
some light and pity.
For a single, short moment, the eyes of a child
put a stop to the ferocity and two human souls
found a reason to come together.
I’m seventy years old and I was born twice.
The first time it was in my mother’s house, on
April 29th 1933.
The second time I was on the grass, beside a
house turned to dust by the Germans.
I had three bullets in my body.
That Nazi pointed the rifle in the middle of my
eyes.
Then he looked away, and saved my life.
LILIANA MANFREDI (1933) is the only survivor
of a Nazi massacre in June 1944.
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Marino Magliani
L’ESILIO DEI MOSCERINI DANZANTI
GIAPPONESI
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 180 · RELEASE DATE: MAY 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(When Japanese Dancing Midges Go Into Exile)
“ME AND ANTONIO TABUCCHI USED TO WRITE LETTERS TO EACH OTHER.
LOTS OF THEM, ALWAYS AT NIGHT. AFTERALL, THAT IS WHAT AN EXILE
IS VERY GOOD AT: TO WALK ON THE BANKS OF A RIVER, AND TO STAY
AWAKE WHEN IT’S DARK OUTSIDE”.
“Magliani’s writing gives back to the reader that everlasting, inner conflict
that we all experience with our places and choices. And so the journey be-
comes a metaphor, and all we can do is to close the door behind and leave”.
Alice Pisu, «la Repubblica»
F I C T I O N
“Sharp and exact, Magliani’s words are as watchful as they should be”.
Guido Festinese, «il Manifesto»
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“Magliani pays his depts with his own past, made of breakaways, loves and
places. A fragmented autobiography where no regrets are allowed”.
Gianluca Barbera, «il Giornale»
A professional translator left his hometown to never go back. A voluntary exile
from everything and everyone he knew, including himself.
This is his fragmented autobiography, where everything is supposed to be
true because no one can say otherwise. Sea, shores, horizon, sands and wa-
ters run through the pages with the voice of nostalgia. From one exile to the
other, he claims that all the people in his
condition can do properly only two things:
to walk on the shore and to spend the night
awake.
And we keep him company in this journey,
a life-long journey where he’s chasing him-
self, a journey that will take everyone, just
as it happened to Dante before us, until the
gates of Hell.
MARINO MAGLIANI was born in 1960. He
is a novelist and translator from Spanish
and Dutch. He lives in Netherlands, by the
North Sea. His novels have been published
by Sironi, Instar Libri and Longanesi.
Some of his novels have been translated
into Dutch and German.
His next novel will be published by Chi-
arelettere in 2018.
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Michele Marziani
LA FIGLIA DELPARTIGIANO O’CONNOR
(Tha Daughter of Partisan O’Connor)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 160 · RELEASE DATE: JUL 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
A SEMI-LOVE STORY WITH ALL THE 20TH CENTURY INSIDE.
“Marziani’s new novel lives up to his standards with a brave
and modern writing. A real page-turner”.
«Ultima Voce»
“A flowing and compelling story, with a remarkable attention
to historical details”.
«Italish»
F I C T I O N
1936. Following IRA leader Frank Ryan, hundreds of young Irish
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men left to fight in Spain alongside the anti-fascists.
Born and raised in the Italian Alps, Pablita O’Connor is the daugh-
ter of one of them. In her old days, she decides to go on a journey
in search of her roots, and she will find out how powerful Ireland
really is and a secret that her father, Malachy O’Connor, kept hid-
den for so long.
A novel made of little things
that are able to cross History.
Born in 1962, MICHELE MAR-
ZIANI lives between Italy and
Ireland.
He wrote several novels and es-
says published by Barbès, Cult,
Ediciclo, Antonio Tombolini
among others.
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Enrico Brizzi
“EPOPEA FANTASTORICA ITALIANA”
(Italian ‘fanta-historical’ epic tale)
“His writing is still brilliant and ‘fat’, meaning thriving, just as his hometown
Bologna”.
Laura Pezzino, «Vanity Fair»
“One must a have a great ability to write something like this, a story about
a world that could have been ours, filled with echoes of Celati, Tondelli and
Benni. It’s a chance to think things through”.
Giovanni Tesio, «la Stampa»
GENRE: NOVEL · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
“Brizzi brings to life a scenario of memorable characters, something quite
rare on days like these”.
Aurelio Pasini, «il Mucchio»
“A true colossal about Italian (fanta) history”.
F I C T I O N
«QLibri»
Born in 1974, at 19 ENRICO BRIZZI published his debut novel, Jack Frusciante
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has left the band, later translated in 24 languages. In 1996 it inspired an Ital-
ian movie by the same name.
His second book, Bastogne, has been translated to French, German and Span-
ish.
He later wrote ten more novels, published by Baldini&Castoldi and Monda-
dori, comics, graphic novels, guides.
At the present time, the “Italian fanta-historical epic tale” consists of three
novels that will soon be republished all together. Brizzi is currently working
on the fourth chapter of the epopee.
10Enrico Brizzi
“EPOPEA FANTASTORICA ITALIANA”
(Italian ‘fanta-historical’ epic tale)
L’INATTESA PIEGA DEGLI EVENTI
(The unexpected turn of events)
The question is: what would have happened if Mussolini had won
World War II? The answer begins with this book, first of a three-part
series.
Being a sport journalist, Lorenzo Pellegrini is asked to go to Africa
GENRE: NOVEL · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
to report the local football championship. It’s the ‘50s and Italy still
rules over its “black” colonies. Over there, Lorenzo will soon find
how “italianization” is just a facade, because prejudice and racism
are the true rule. But the problem is that something is happening in
F I C T I O N
his country as well: with Mussolini getting closer to death, Italy is
shaken up by an impending political crisis.
1° ED. BALDINI CASTOLDI DALAI, 2008 / 2° ED. ITALICA, 2015 • PAG. 448
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LA NOSTRA GUERRA
(Our war)
Set in the years between 1942 and 1945, Our war recounts Loren-
zo’s coming of age, as he leaves behind the comforts of middle-class
lifestyle and he struggles with being an evacuee. While Italy goes to
war with the Allies, his education is made of first love, friendships,
betrayals and air raids. Thanks to the author’s vivid imagination,
the second chapter of Brizzi’s epopee has the same bittersweet
taste of most renowned movies from the Italian golden age.
1° ED. BALDINI CASTOLDI DALAI, 2009 • PAG. 640
LORENZO PELLEGRINI E LE DONNE
(Lorenzo Pellegrini and his women)
Lorenzo is 19, the war is over and women are his only thought. Riding
his Vespa, he wanders in the streets of Bologna but his journey will
soon bring him further away, as he chases his goddess Irene. After
he decides to decline his father’s proposal to follow his steps and
become a lawyer, Lorenzo begins his training as a sport journalist
and he discovers an exciting way of life made of swing rhythms and
new stepping-stones.
In the background, Mussolini’s victory reveals its real price…
1° ED. ITALICA, 2012 • PAG. 344
11Claudio Volpe
LA TRAIETTORIA DELL’AMORE
(Love’s path)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 192 · RELEASE DATE: FEB 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
NOMINATED FOR “PREMIO STREGA” 2017
“It’s wonderful how a young, so young author can be able to
write with such sharp narrative strength”.
Dacia Maraini
Actually, Love’s path is the story of two differ-
ent paths: the one that reunites a brother and a
sister and the one that blossoms between two
F I C T I O N
young women.
After a hit and run, Giuseppe turns to his sis-
ter Andrea for help, even though they drifted
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apart years before since he couldn’t accept her
homosexuality. But now that she lives with her
girlfriend Sara, Andrea has to learn if their love
can survive the weight of her past.
The three of them decide to run together until
they reach a little town somewhere in South-
ern Italy, where their troubles will finally be
unraveled and Giuseppe will find the strength
to deal with his blame.
Using words that every boy and girl in love can easily make their own,
Claudio Volpe wrote a modern, wise and captivating road trip tale.
Born in 1990, CLAUDIO VOLPE moved from
Sicily to Rome, where he studied Law.
In 2011, Dacia Maraini put forward his debut
novel, Il vuoto intorno, for “Premio Strega” lit-
erary prize. The same novel won “Premio Inter-
nazionale Franco Enriquez”. In 2013, his sec-
ond book Stringimi prima che arrivi la notte
has been mentioned for “Premio Strega” by
Renato Minore and Cesare Milanese, winning
the “Napoli Cultural Classic” prize.
With Member of Parliament Anna Paola Concia, in 2014 he wrote
an essay on homosexuality and gender-based violence, Raccontami
l’amore.
12Alessandro Gallo
GENRE: CRIME NOVEL · PAGES: 160 · RELEASE DATE: MAR 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
TUTTA UN’ALTRA STORIA
(That’s another story)
That’s another story is the recounting of a liquid friendship,
soon vanished, in that brief time that separates puberty from
adulthood.
Naples. Three teenagers grow up admiring
the racketeers and reproducing their illegal
activities: Diego “El Pibe” dreams of becom-
ing part of the clan, Catia “Boutique” feels
on her body the suffering of her father and
F I C T I O N
the struggles of a criminal love, Raffaele “Ca-
pocchione”, who never met his mother and
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whose father had been killed by the mob,
daydreams of a different neighborhood. He
finds comfort in a theatre workshop among
scripts, colorful clothes and unstable beams
of the abusive barn that surrounds him.
That place becomes a space of life and redemption, until Camorra de-
cides to turn it into a weapons storage…
ALESSANDRO GALLO was born in Naples in 1986. He is a theater di-
rector and editor in Civil Commitment field. He won the national prize
‘Iride, Cava de’ Tirreni’ with his novel Scimmie (more than 7,000 cop-
ies sold) published by Navarra Edi-
tore, that inspired the theater per-
formance di carne. In 2011 he was
curator of the anthology La parola
liberate dalle mafie, and in 2012 of
Italian Shorts. Brevi storie lungo il
bel paese. In 2013 he collaborated
to the creation of the anthology
La giusta parte, testimoni e storie
dell’antimafia by Mario Gelardi
and to La grammatica di Nisida
by Maria Franco, awarded with the
prize ‘Premio Napoli Cultural 2013’.
13Claudio Morandini
LE PIETRE
(Stones)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 192 · RELEASE DATE: APR 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
“Balancing immanence and metaphysics, Morandini creates a
ghost story that rolls gloriously down the mountanside.”
Michele Lauro, «Panorama»
“Morandini embraces a mistery and he paints it with humour”.
Alessandro Beretta, «Corriere della Sera»
“Unpredictable, fiendish and spiteful: these are Morandini’ stones”.
Giorgio Vasta, «la Repubblica»
F I C T I O N
“A choral and polyphonic novel. Comic and dramatic at the same
time, this story is sharply ironic and deeply realistic.”
«Il Libraio»
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In this novel, everything is in motion.
There is a little town in the Alps, Sostigno, where all the locals keep moving
to and from the mountains; the river too is never still, changing its shape
overnight. But most of all, the stones can’t stay idle. Bizzare events happen
all the time, and the stones make their way into homes, fields, everywhere
they can. Until they appear in the living room of an old couple’s “villa”, and
the story unfolds with echoes of Ionesco and Buster Keaton.
A funny and choral novel where past and present merge and collide, just as if
they were stones rolling down the moun-
tainside.
CLAUDIO MORANDINI lives in Aosta. He
wrote comedies for the radio, monologues for
the theatre and several novels.
His previous novel A gran giornate (In great
days) won “Città di Trebisacce” Literary Prize
in 2013.
His account Dita fredde (Cold fingers) is in-
cluded in the italian-american Santi – Lives of
Modern Saints (Black Arrow Press, Baltimora,
2007).
Neve, cane, piede (Snow, Dog, Foot), a Top
10 Italian best-sellers novel, has been sold to
France, Chile and Turkey so far.
In 2018, Salani will publish his YA story The fa-
mous masks of Pocacosa and, from 2019, his
new novels will be published by Bompiani.
14Irene Chias
NON CERCARE L’UOMO CAPRA
(Don’t go looking for the goatman)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 196 · RELEASE DATE: NOV 2016 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
“I closed this book with a smile on my face. It’s fresh, filled with
life, and important.”
Veronica Tomassini, «Il Fatto Quotidiano»
“Stories of different migrates in a dreamlike and neurotic Milan.
A novel that moves erotically, deconstructing the traps of
romantic love.”
«TgCom24»
F I C T I O N
“True stories about integration, risks and everyday struggles.”
«RDS - Radio Dimensione Suono»
“Irene Chias writes about diversity of thinking, language and color.”
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«Fashion Times»
Maybe everyone’s a migrant in their own way.
There is a Romanian violinist, and he’s into astrology. There is
also an Italian-Gambian couple: she makes a great Glenn Gould
impression as she plays the piano, he reached Europe on a boat,
fighting for his life. They struggle to understand each other, but
who doesn’t?
Set in a dreamy Milan, Irene Chias’
new novel is the story of Luisa, Simona,
Seedia, Assane and Rodrigo, all mixed
up with tango fusion music and jazz
manouche, conversations about true
love and journeys to Zanzibar, Fellini
movies and volley games.
Born in 1973, IRENE CHIAS wrote
Sono ateo e ti amo (Elliot, 2010) and
Esercizi di sevizia e seduzione (Monda-
dori, 2013) winner of Premio Mondello
Opera italiana and Mondello Giovani
prizes.
15Marita Bartolazzi
LA DONNA CHE PENSAVA DI ESSERE
TRISTE
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 150 · RELEASE DATE: OCT 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(She is sad, maybe)
“She is sad, maybe moves like a fairytale.”
«Poetarum Silva»
“An easygoing and educational happiness, halfway between
Jacques Prévert and Gianni Rodari.”
«OUTsiders»
F I C T I O N
In a city out of time and place, there is a woman who believed
she was sad. But there is also a little crowd of characters, may-
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be real or maybe not, which provide a great deal of advices:
talking animals, tailors, children living in a supermarket of
dreams and a bored bronze statue.
Until, one day, the woman begins to see parts of herself walk-
ing around, as if they were living on their own, and the nights
get filled with dreams, visions and encounters.
MARINA BARTOLAZZI lives in
Roma, working in publishing and
collaborating with «Tutto italiano»
magazine.
16Enrico De Vivo
POCHE PAROLE CHE NON RICORDO PIÙ
(Few words that I remember no more)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 164 · RELEASE DATE: MAR 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
“A reflection on the evanescence of time and the unpredictability
of our future.”
«Robinson - la Repubblica»
“A vivid realism filled with magic glimpses. A book out of time.”
«il Mattino»
“Flawless, refined, splendid.”
«Il Cittadino»
F I C T I O N
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With the company of the wise Rossana, Gargiulo, a musician,
goes on a picaresque journey through Southern Italy, between
bluesmen and maps experts, visionary trekkers, old poems
readers and philosophers who live in a criminal loony bin.
A novel that is a survival
manual for tired souls.
Born in 1963, ENRICO DE
VIVO has been the curator
of Racconti impensati di
ragazzini (Feltrinelli, 1999)
and other anthologies. He
worked with Gianni Celati
for Sonetti del Badalucco
(Feltrinelli, 2010) and he is
an editor for the publisher
QuiEdit. In 2002 he found-
ed the literary magazine Zi-
baldoni e altre meraviglie
(www.zibaldoni.it).
17Marino Magliani
LA SPIAGGIA DEI CANI ROMANTICI
(The Beach of Sentimental Dogs)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 224 · RELEASE DATE: JAN 2011 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
“Who are those sentimental dogs? They’re the chicos piola, the Ar-
gentinian boys that, at the end of the Summer, move to Spain to
work on the Lloret De Mar beaches.”
«Nazione Indiana»
“Marino Magliani is a very important name in our current literary sce-
nario: he is minimalist and poetic, just like Pavese.”
Gordiano Lupi, «Mentelocale»
“Telling the uncertainties of the 80’s, Magliani draws an original dia-
SOLD TO: NETHERLANDS (Prometheus)
F I C T I O N
gram that crosses Argentina, Spain and Italy.”
Full Spanish translation available
Luigi Preziosi, «Bibliomanie»
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Lincoln, Costa Brava. The summer ends when the boys dressed
with gaudy shirts, the chicos piola, finally leave Europe after they
worked on night clubs and bars.
In 1983, Almeja is one of those boys but his true dream is to be-
come a soccer player, and so he and his girlfriend embark on a
different journey, headed for Italy. But it won’t be so easy for them
to forget those endless nights on the beach, a place where people
go to have fun but also a graveyard for many English soldiers.
Thirty years later, a Dutch journalist
decides to search for those boys. And
he will uncover the trails of a past
that seemed buried forever.
MARINO MAGLIANI was born in
1960. He is a novelist and translator
from Spanish and Dutch. He lives in
Netherlands, by the North Sea. His
novels have been published by Siro-
ni, Instar Libri and Longanesi.
Some of his novels have been trans-
lated into Dutch and German.
His next novel will be published by
Chiarelettere in 2018.
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EDIZIONI
Marino Magliani
GENRE: TRAVEL LITERATURE · PAGES: 180 · RELEASE DATE: MAR 2014 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
SOGGIORNO A ZEEWIJK
(A Stay in Zeewijk)
FINALIST AT “L’ALBATROS - CITTÀ DI PALESTRINA” PRIZE FOR TRAVEL LITERATURE
“Soggiorno a Zeewijk is a small gem. There are delightful pages in
this book”.
WINNER OF “FRANCESCO GELMI DI CAPORIACCO” LITERARY PRIZE 2016
«la Repubblica»
“Magliani is a ‘poet of gaze’: his ability to observe is at its best
through the streets of Zeewijk”.
«Diacritica»
Full French and German translations available
F I C T I O N
This book is a walk through the streets of a quarter of the Dutch
sea town of IJmuiden, not far from Amsterdam.
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Built on the sand dunes, every 50 years this town is forced to
change its urban shape. This is the story of a changing landscape,
of houses whose lives are shorter than the ones of their inhabit-
ants. It is also the story of an unexpected encounter, happy and
melancholic at the same time, like anything else in Zeewijk.
It is the novel of an observer but also a map, a travel book between
Holland and Liguria, where the author sets intense pages amongst
hills and orchards.
MARINO MAGLIANI was born in
1960. He is a novelist and translator
from Spanish and Dutch. He lives in
Netherlands, by the North Sea. His
novels have been published by Siro-
ni, Instar Libri and Longanesi.
Some of his novels have been trans-
lated into Dutch and German.
His next novel will be published by
Chiarelettere in 2018.
19Paolo Grugni
L’ODORE ACIDO DI QUEI GIORNI
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 288 · RELEASE DATE: MAR 2011/MAR 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(The sour smell of those days)
“Telling clearly the Years of Lead and at the same time entertaining
with an intense detective story.”
«TV Sorrisi & Canzoni»
“A very interesting and valuable book”.
«La Repubblica»
“One of the most beautiful novels about the 70s. A political noir that
smells of snow, soot and blood”.
F I C T I O N
Gianni Canova
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In 1977 Italy is upset by political chaos: bombs, terrorist attacks, riots
between police and extra-parliamentary groups that increasingly dis-
tance themselves from political parties, announcing the birth of the
Movement.
A physician from Bologna, with both career and family shattered, Ales-
sandro Bellezza discovers under the snow a woman apparently dead.
She is Francesca Mirri, a policewoman infiltrated in the ranks of New
Order, on the hunt for a murderer hidden in the extreme right organi-
zation.
The two will join the marshal Bertoli and together they will unveil hor-
rifying truths. No one is ever what they appear to be and everybody
seems to be playing on two sides.
There are truths that must not emerge, and
a murderer that cannot be discovered.
Everything culminates with the tragic
events of March ‘77, when the panzers ar-
rive in Bologna, sent by the President of the
Republic.
PAOLO GRUGNI (Milan, 1962) is the author
of the novels Let it be (Mondadori 2004;
Giallo Mondadori 2009), Mondoserpente
(Snakeworld; Alacran 2006; Giallo Mon-
dadori 2011), Aiutami (Help me; Barbera
2008) and Italian Sharia (Perdisa 2010).
20Edoardo Zambelli
L’ANTAGONISTA
(The Rival)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 220 · RELEASE DATE: SEP 2016 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
“A great talent, an extraordinary debut”.
Giulio Mozzi
“A little jewel of Magic Realism”.
«Cultora»
“A slap-up debut. Powerful and unsettling, with a sharp language
on the verge of Hyperrealism”.
Gianluca Barbera, «il Giornale»
F I C T I O N
Erika had to do everything by herself when she jumped out the
window, and the few people that cherish her memory remained
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astonished. The man that loved her when they were both college
students, the best friend that shared her adventure in Rome, the
family that rejected her, the producer that saw her growing up and
then disappear, the artist that made her a muse or a prey: everyone
believes that her death revealed that they were never truly alive,
but only fleeting presences in Erika’s life.
And the reader goes deeper and deeper into the same mystery,
until an unbearable truth is unveiled.
Born in 1984 in Mexico City, EDOAR-
DO ZAMBELLI lives in Cassino. This is
his first novel.
21Ilaria Milandri
DELIA È DI NESSUNO
(Delia belongs to no one)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 406 · RELEASE DATE: JUL 2016 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
“A perfect balance between deep intimacy and sudden
accelerations, by a genuine and straightforward author.”
«Ansa»
“A prostitute by choiche, to fight the respectable life that
her father had planned for her, Delia is cynic and nihilist.
Milandri’ strenght lies in the chiaroscuro of her elliptic and
F I C T I O N
concise writing.”
Deborah Donato, «Critica Letteraria»
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In a cold springtime morning, Delia and Antonio bumped into
each other. She’s beautiful, educated and she’s a prostitute – by
her own choice. He’s an old man suffering the loss of his wife, so
he wanders between the graveyard and the park.
This accidental meeting will change Delia’s life forever, just when
her dark past and her mysterious present will throw her against
an intolerable reality.
She will do whatever it takes to protect the one she cares about
the most.
Born in 1967, ILARIA MILANDRI is a
painter, photographer and writer. Her
first narrative works were short stories
that accompanied her art exhibitions.
From 2010 to 2014, Foschi Editore
published her trilogy of novels: La vi-
sion cieca, Amen, Legami di sangue.
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GENRE: CRIME NOVEL · PAGES: 216 · RELEASE DATE: APR 2016 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
IN MORTE DI DON MASINO
(On the Death of Don Masino)
“Written as if it were a screenplay, On the Death of Don Masino
is a claustrophobic attempt to assume how things really went.
Maybe literature can really accomplish what the research for
truth is unable to”.
«Dazebao News»
F I C T I O N
A journalist’s obession: to find out what happened to Stefano Bon-
tate’s treasure. He was killed on 23 April 1981 by Totò Riina’s clan,
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at the beginning of the Second Mafia War. How much money did
Bontate, called “Prince of Villagrazia”, accumulate in his life? Bil-
lions, it seems, enough to affect the economy of an entire Country.
But all tracks of it have been lost.
Reporter Francesco Felice meets mysterious characters willing to
help him find peace and answers. They will bring him in front of a re-
vived dead man that lives hidden in New Jersey: he is Tommaso Busc-
etta, Boss of both worlds, and he will tell Francesco the entire story.
Based on historical documents and deeds, this novel has the
chance to tell the story, as close as possible to the truth, of our
unfortunate Republic.
PIETRO ORSATTI (Ferrara, 1963) has
lived most of his life in Rome. He
worked and collaborated with vari-
ous newspapers and TV stations, in-
cluding «il Manifesto», «Diario», «Lib-
erazione», «Left», «Nuova Ecologia», PIETRO ORSATTI
«Terra», Radio Popolare, Rai, Arcoiris,
Agenzia Dire, «Micro Mega», «Antima- MORTE
fia Duemila» e «I Siciliani/Giovani». He MASINO
wrote and directed more than twenty R O M A N Z O
documentaries. His latest book is Imprimatur
Rome is burning (Imprimatur, 2015).
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Carla Ferguson Barberini
IL METODO STICAZZI
(Sticazzi Living: The Italian Way to Deal with Life)
Sticazzi Living When You’re Working · Sticazzi Living When it’s Christmas · Sticazzi Living and the Global Crisis
A SERIES OF 7 BOOKS (so far)
GENRE: HUMOR · RELEASE DATE: 2011-2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
Sticazzi Living · Sticazzi Living 24/7 · Sticazzi Living – The Handbook · Sticazzi Living in the Kitchen ·
MORE THAN 70,000 COPIES SOLD
“Sticazzi is happiness explained (and taught) in a single word.
Every big step in the Human History was born out of a Sticazzi.”
N O N - F I C T I O N
Beatrice Dondi, «l’Espresso»
“Sticazzi books will make you invincible.”
Manfredo Liparoti, «la Repubblica»
“A philosophical-commercial phenomenon.
With its Roman origin, Sticazzi is always the last word.”
Davide Turrini, «Il Fatto Quotidiano»
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“A shortcut to happiness.”
Federica Pessot, «Il Pickwick»
Setting an example to handle every struggle of our daily life, a group of men and
women found the perfect word to illustrate what they mean: Sticazzi.
The ultimate 20th century philosophy on how you can nurture your own happiness,
isolating what’s really important from what is just a pain in the neck. And even when
you simply have to put up with that pain, there is always another way to look at it.
Forget pizza, shoes and Dolce Vita: Sticazzi is the best Italy has to offer.
All over the world, we are facing the same problems: job crisis, mothers-in-law,
ex-lovers and current ones, work colleagues, neighbours, Sunday plans and major
holidays. But everything can be endured with a little bit of self-mockery and (a lot
of) Sticazzi.
Carla Ferguson Barberini compiled a perfect guide to all those who are Sticazzi wan-
nabes – and you’re note alone, by the way: Socrates,
Rossella O’Hara, and even Jesus believed in Sticazzi.
Beyond “nevermind”, more than “Hakuna Matata”
and “keep calm and take it easy”, this is your most
delicious and useful cup of tea: Sticazzi, because
Italians really do it better.
Despite the girl’s name, CARLA FERGUSON BARBERINI
collective welcomes men as well. They are all profession-
als in the field of Communication and Publishing. Since
they believe deeply in the power of their philosophy, the
collective would be more than willing to adapt the Stica-
zzi books for a worldwide circulation.
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Hafez Haidar
LEZIONI DI PACE
(Peace Lessons: Koran, Islam and Terrorism
Explained to my Students)
GENRE: ESSAY · PAGES: 160 · RELEASE DATE: JAN 2018 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
2017 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CANDIDATE
“Hafez’s good tale: ‘Culture is an immense world of love, and it is for everybody’.”
«Corriere della Sera»
“Haidar made the marvels of Koran more accessible to western readers”.
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«la Repubblica»
“Hafez’s true Religion is Love, everlasting and boundless”.
«Il Sole 24 ore»
“Haidar had spent nineteen years on books, translations and seminars to spread
love and tear down the walls of suspicion, hate and violence”.
«Corriere della Sera»
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Hafez Haidar builds up bridges.
As a man, as a scholar, as a writer.
To him, culture is “a redeeming tool which enclose beauty, wisdom and boundless love”.
For this reason, he has been nominated for the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
For his dual nature of man and scholar of both Arab and Christian literature – he
belongs to these two cultural traditions, from which he acquired a wider and more
complete spirituality –, Hafez Haidar is a unique author in the Italian literary scene.
He is considered one of the world’s leading scholars of Monotheistic Religions and
the aim of all his works is to spread intercultural dialogues and to reconcile two
worlds mistakenly opposed, the Islamic and the Christian, in order to demonstrate
the possibility of a peaceful coexistence. His message is a concrete tool “to tear down
the walls of suspicion, hate and violence”.
Through the tale of Koran and Mohammed’s life, he wants to teach his students how
the Islamic fundamentalism is nothing more than a scaring drift of Islam culture,
born out of fanaticism, hunger, ignorance and economic interests.
“A terrorist is the enemy of West and East, he had de-
famed and blemished his religion”.
Academician Emeritus, Ambassador of Human Rights,
Chairman of several national and international Prizes
Committees, Knight of the Italian Republic and Inter-
national Director of the Camerata dei Poeti in Florence,
HAFEZ HAIDAR is a Lebanese poet and writer. He lives in
Italy and he is currently a teacher of Arabic Language and
Literature at the University of Pavia. His best-seller books
have been published by Mondadori, Rizzoli, Piemme and
Fabbri. He edited The Prophet and other works of Kahlil
Gibran, and his translation of The Arabian Nights has
been very appreciated by the literary world.
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Paolo Palumbo - Luigi Pomata
SAPORI A COLORI
(ColourfulFlavours:Fightingsicknesswithgoodcoocking)
GENRE: COOKBOOK · PAGES: 126 · RELEASE DATE: FEB 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
LAUNCHED ON NATIONAL TV SHOW “PORTA A PORTA” (RAI 1) BY
BRUNO VESPA, ON 17TH FEBRUARY 2017.
THE 1RST AND UNIQUE COOKBOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN NO
LONGER TASTE FOOD.
The wish of a boy with a serious illness becomes real.
N O N - F I C T I O N
“Love is like good cuisine: special things
come from simple ingredients, but im-
agination makes them amazing”. A joint
work of one of the most famous Italian
chef and Paolo Palumbo, the youngest
ALS sufferer, it is not the classic cook-
book, but it is a hymn to love for cuisine
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and life. They designed recipes to give
“taste” to food that ALS sufferers must
ingest through a feeding tube because
they cannot do it by themselves. This is a
book designed for people with swallowing
disease, dysphagia or other dysfunctions
that prevent a normal nourishment. Most of all, this is the dream come
true for a nineteen-year-old who lost the use of arms as his body fades
away with no clear reason.
PAOLO PALUMBO, 19 years old, worked in several restaurant before discover-
ing his terrible illness. He faced his fate with
courage and he found that despite the extreme
difficulties he can help to relieve the suffering
of ALS people like him or affected by other
diseases.
LUIGI POMATA comes from a family of chefs.
He worked for Michelin-starred-chefs in New
York, London and other cities. In 2003, he rep-
resented Italy at the prestigious Bocuse d’Or,
he won the Cous Cous exposition and took
part in TV shows: “La prova del cuoco”, “La
cucina del Gambero Rosso”, “Alice”. He wrote
several cookbooks.
Today, he is one of the most famous Italian
chefs and he owns the Luigi Pomata Restau-
Barack Obama meets Paolo Palumbo at the
rants in Cagliari. He is considered the “king of “Seeds&Chips – The Global Food Innovation
tuna” based cuisine. Summit”.
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Leo Turrini
SENNA. IN VIAGGIO CON AYRTON
(Senna: A last trip with Ayrton)
GENRE: SPORT · PAGES: 172 · RELEASE DATE: FEB 2014 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
“I’M NOT A CAR, I’M NOT UNBEATABLE;
BUT CAR RACING IS A PART OF ME, OF MY BODY.
FOUR WHEELS, A SEAT, A STEERING WHEEL. THEY’RE MY LIFE”.
PUBLISHED IN JAPAN.
N O N - F I C T I O N
“He was a sincere man, and people knew that.
As a pilot, I can easily say he was the best”.
Felipe Massa
SOLD TO: JAPAN (San-Ei Shobo)
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Three times World’s Champion, one of the greatest pilots of Formula 1 of all times,
Ayrton Senna died in Italy on 1th of May 1994. This book is the story of what hap-
pened on that weekend that changed forever the F1 world, but is also the story of
the man under the pilot’s helmet.
Ayrton Senna left a terrible void, because his talent was unique. But the greatness of
his character crosses the bounds of motoring: involving more than 5 million Brazil-
ians, the chronicles of his funeral sealed a life dedicated to the passion for racing.
Leo Turrini describes his career: the great triumphs and burning defeats, his de-
cency during the competitions and the darker aspects of his personality. Always
overwhelmed by his emotions, Senna was like a comic’s superhero on the racetrack
and a man with a delicate sensibility in his everyday life. People, and not only in his
beloved Brazil, had learned to understand his
double identity: for this reason, on May 1, the
grief was collective, huge and inconsolable.
Beginning at the end, with the last trip on the
plane that hosts Senna’s corpse, this book is
not and does not want to be a biography. It is
more an act of gratitude.
Sport reporter for Sky Tv, LEO TURRINI has
been following the Formula 1 for Italian news-
papers since the early 80s (“Il Resto del Car-
lino”, “La Nazione” and “Il Giorno”). He has
followed nearly 400 Grand Prix Formula 1. He
wrote many books and biographies, such as
Enzo Ferrari. Un eroe italiano (2017); Schu-
macher. La leggenda di un uomo normale
(2014); Bartali. L’uomo che salvò l’italia peda-
lando (2014); Il pirata e il cowboy. Pantani e
Armstrong, le storie maledette (2013).
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Maria Anna Mariani
GENRE: TRAVEL LITERATURE · PAGES: 168 · RELEASE DATE: SEP 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
DALLA COREA DEL SUD
(South Korea: Neon Lights and Shamanic Flags)
“A charming book that succeeds in telling a Country in a
way that nobody did before. A literary jewel.”
Cristina Nadotti, «la Repubblica»
N O N - F I C T I O N
In Johyeon, two-hours away from Seul, in the deep of Korean
countryside, there is a college campus.
Maria is living there, surrounded by other astonished and wan-
dering professors from every corner of the world.
But what she discovers is a surprise: a daily life of bows and
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ancient rituals that made their way into this modern and tech-
nological Country.
Slowly, Maria begins to familiarize with a strange, tiger-shaped
place filled with obsessions, sharing her life with the locals and
becoming accustomed to the contradictions of a Country of
plastic surgeries and suicides, fishes and apples hanged at front
doors and ladies with lacy parasols.
MARIA ANNA MARIANI (1982)
teaches Italian Literature at the
University of Chicago. She spent
4 years in South Korea. She pub-
lished Sull’autobiografia contem-
poranea. Nathalie Sarraute, Elias
Canetti, Alice Munro, Primo Levi
(Carocci, 2012).
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Antonio Rinaldis
RIACE, IL PAESE DELL’ACCOGLIENZA
GENRE: CURRENT EVENTS · PAGES: 168 · RELEASE DATE: DEC 2016 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(Riace: An alternative model of Racial Integration
and Refugee Hospitality)
“This is all true. This is Riace, glimpses of a future between old
walls and decrepit buildings.”
Domenico Lucano
(Mayor of Riace. Listed by Fortune magazine as one of the
N O N - F I C T I O N
“World’s 50 greatest leaders” thanks to his immigration politics)
“Welcoming migrants the way he did it, Lucano is a precursor
and example for integration.”
Laura Boldrini
(Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and
President of the Chamber of Deputies)
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In Riace, a town in Calabria, gods arrived twice.
First when two male bronzes were fished out of the sea after centuries, and
another time in the Summer of some years ago, when a boat of Kurdish ref-
ugees reached Riace’ shores. They were fragile and scared gods, and they
found hospitality. Many landings followed, and Riace’s abandoned apart-
ments were given to the immigrants together with a job training in ancient
crafts. They became a part of the social context, thanks to the visionary mayor
of Riace, Domenico Lucano.
This reportage is the story of his capacity to welcome those who come from
poverty. In the meantime, Mayor Lucano
saved his own town, whose population
now includes more than 6,000 migrants
from over 20 Countries.
And this is how Riace became a sustain-
able model to handle the European refu-
gee crisis: a model of cohabitation based
on exchange and mutual interest, both for
refugees and for the development of local
communities, that Wim Wenders recount-
ed in his short movie Il volo (The Flight).
Professor of Philosophy at the University
of Milan, ANTONIO RINALDIS, has pub-
lished many essays and novels in Italian
and French.
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Germana Leoni von Dohnanyi
LO STATO PROFONDO
GENRE: CURRENT EVENTS · PAGES: 360 · RELEASE DATE: APR 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(The Deep State: Tournament of Shadows and
Jihad)
The Orwellian nightmare has never been so close to become
reality: «War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Our ignorance is their strenght».
N O N - F I C T I O N
An essay to read the conflicts of these last decades under a different point of
view; to contextualize the big events of our time not just as isolated events,
but as pieces of a bigger puzzle; to reveal the red line which tie all the conflicts
of the post-war period: Indochina, Afghanistan, Caucasus, Balkans, Central
America and Middle East. A puzzle, once recomposed, that shows off a very
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different reality from how it is generally perceived: a big geopolitics project
for the control of Eurasia and its energetic resources.
The Anglo-Americans call it The Great Game, the Russians the Tournament
of Shadows. But the goal remains the same: global supremacy.
What emerges from this book is the existence of the Deep State, the National
Security State – what the «New York Times» report and Pulitzer winner Dana
Priest defined “A second parallel and top-secret government, visible only to
a carefully selected group of people”.
Daughter-in-law of Klaus von Dohnányi,
former First Mayor and Minister-Presi-
dent of Hamburg, GERMANA LEONI VON
DOHNÁNYI has been a reporter from Asia
for Indro Montanelli’s «il Giornale» and for
«L’Indipendente». She collaborated with
«Panorama» and «Il Borghese», the german
radio station Westdeutscher Rundfunk,
«Greenpeace Magazine» (Hamburg) and
more recently with «Voce del Ribelle» Mas-
simo Fini’s newspaper. She is co-author
of Schmutzige Geschaefte und Heiliger
Krieg (Pendo Verlag, Zurich, 2002), Soma-
lia (Editori Riuniti, Italy, 2002); she is the
author of Bush and Bush (Editori Riuniti,
Italy, 2006) and Rapporto Medusa (Mursia,
Italy, 2012).
30Laura Larcan
ROMA, LE SCOPERTE MAI RACCON-
GENRE: HISTORY · PAGES: 174 · RELEASE DATE: JUL 2016 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
TATE
(Rome, the Untold Discoveries)
This book is the proof that Rome is full of secrets, even to
this day. A fascinating collection of stories made of fortuity
N O N - F I C T I O N
and experience.
Gladiator’s grave, the shoes under the Pyramid, Commodo
theater, the little mouse who lived inside Apollo’s head, the
man with the jaw joined with the skull, “the sea” deep in the
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Catabombs. These are just some of the most recent and in-
credible discoveries that Laura Larcan reported on Italian
newspapers.
LAURA LARCAN writes on «il
Messaggero», «la Repubblica»
and «National Geographic».
In 2014, she won the “Europe-
an Character for journalism”
prize and the international
prize “Argil Uomo Europeo
2014”
31Giuseppe Acconcia
GENRE: TRAVEL LITERATURE · PAGES: 240 · RELEASE DATE: NOV 2016 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
IL GRANDE IRAN
(The Great Iran)
“Acconcia is blessing us with the taste for knowledge and
the pleasure of a pure investigation”
«Atlante – Treccani»
N O N - F I C T I O N
Inside this book there are ten years of life and travels, conducted
by one of the most respected Italian news correspondent in the
Middle East.
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Echoing “The Great Game” by Peter Hopkirk, this study is a re-
flection on George W. Bush’s project to create a “Great Middle
East”.
GIUSEPPE ACCONCIA has lived in Iran, Egypt and Syria. He
works for Al Ahram, The Independent, Il Manifesto, Linkiesta,
Oil, Radio3Rai, Reset. His essays have been published by Il
Mulino, The International Spectator,
Ispi.
He won the Giornalisti del Mediterra-
neo prize in 2013 and he is the author
of radio documentary for Radio3.
32Gianluca Serra
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SALAM È TORNATA
(Salam has returned)
The green parabola of a sacred bird.
“Salam is back is the story of mankind’s failure”.
N O N - F I C T I O N
Macri Puricelli, «D-Repubblica»
In 2000, a young Italian biologist goes to Syria for an inter-
national cooperation project and he makes an extraordinary
discovery: Ibis’ last colony, a wonderful bird that was believed
extinguished in Syria.
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But Serra’s book is also a report of what kind of country Syria
was before 2011, when civil war broke out.
Through the voices of Hakim and Mahmoud, two refugees
from Palmyra, or the story of Ayoub, who decided to stay in
Syria, Serra carries the reader among Bedouin’s tents and in-
side luxurious palaces.
Biologist and scholar, GIAN-
LUCA SERRA is specialized in
Behavioural Ecology. He stud-
ied in Italy, Cile and in Berke-
ley. Appointed by ONU, he lived
for 10 years in the Syrian Desert
to follow the migration of a rare
bird that was considered sacred
in Ancient Egypt. After 2011, he
moved to Polynesia to work with
the Oceanian program regarding
environmental issues.
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