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Niccolo Ammaniti
Room meets Stand By Me, in a thrilling tale of the loss of innocence
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Niccolo Ammaniti,Jonathan Hunt
The extraordinary new dystopian novel from the author of the international bestseller I’m Not Scared
The hottest summer of the twentieth century. In a tiny Italian rural community, nine-year-old Michele makes a discovery so momentous and terrifying that he dare not tell anyone.
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Italian literary superstar Niccolo Ammaniti’s debut novel, I’m Not Scared, prompted gushing praise, hit international best-seller lists, and was made into a smash indie film. With his highly anticipated follow-up…
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First published in English in Great Britain in 2013 by Canongate Books Ltd –T.p. verso.
A virus has spread around the world. It has a special feature: it only kills adults. Children incubate it but aren’t affected until they age. Anna, thirteen, must rescue her…
IschianoScalo, a village of four houses next to a mosquito-infested swamp, is the place in which two tempestuous love stories are told. One of them is betweenthe young Pietro and…
The extraordinary dystopian novel from the author of the international bestseller I’m Not Scared
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From the internationally bestselling author of I’m Not Scared comes a dizzying and compulsively readable novel set in a moribund town in industrial Italy, where a father and son contend…
In swampy Ischiano Scalo the adults are all losers and the children dream of escape. Meek little Pietro is constantly struggling with the torments of school bullies and indifferent parents…
Cristiano Zena lives with his hard-drinking father, Rino. Rino Zena and his cronies are planning a ram raid on an ATM using a converted tractor. The wary, adoring Cristiano sits…
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The prize-winning international bestseller from the author of I’m Not Scared
‘A deft masterpiece with never a false note’ - Guardian
Lorenzo doesn’t have any friends. Because this is making his parents unhappy, he tells them he has been invited on a skiing holiday. In fact, he plans to spend the…
One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat-fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele makes a discovery so momentous…
The prizewinning international bestseller from the author of I’m Not Scared
