Niccolò Ammaniti, trans. from the Italian by Kylee Doust. Grove/Black Cat, $14 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7090-3
Already a bestseller in Italy, Ammaniti’s slim but immensely engaging fourth novel presents Lorenzo Cuni, a precocious 14-year-old desperate for some space of his own. He achieves this respite from reality with “Operation Bunker,” an elaborate ruse...
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Niccolò Ammaniti, trans. from the Italian by Kylee Doust. Grove/Black Cat, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2111-0
Sometimes warmhearted, sometimes shockingly offensive, and much of the rest of the time very funny, Ammaniti’s (I’m Not Scared) new novel is like a rich, delicious stew with a few pieces of spoiled meat included for good measure. Saverio Moneta is a
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Niccolo Ammaniti, Author, Jonathan Hunt, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt. Canongate $23 (208p) ISBN 978-1-84195-297-0
This gripping American debut by Italian novelist Ammaniti captures well the vagaries of childhood: the shifting alliances, the casual betrayals and the mix of helplessness and earnest audacity with which children confront adult situations. Nine-year-
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Niccolo Ammaniti, Author, Jonathan Hunt, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt. Canongate $23 (405p) ISBN 978-1-84195-824-8
Ammaniti, author of novel-turned-film I'm Not Scared
(2003), offers another tale of smalltown southern Italy, this time juxtaposing the growing pains of 12-year-old Pietro Moroni, a "small for his age" kid frequently targeted by bullies,
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Niccolo Ammaniti, Author, Jonathan Hunt, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt. Grove/Black Cat $14.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7067-5
Plans for an ATM heist go terribly wrong for a bumbling gang of Italian ruffians in Ammaniti's latest. Rino Zena, an unemployed single father with neo-Nazi tendencies, can barely keep his teenage son, Cristiano, out of social services. Zeno'
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Niccolo Ammaniti, Author, Andrea Camilleri, Author, Massimo Carlotto, Author Bitter Lemon Press $14.95 (319p) ISBN 978-1-904738-26-8
As De Cataldo, an appellate judge, points out in his pithy preface, corruption is a theme shared by all nine stories in this first U.S. anthology of Italian noir. The dark farce, ""You Are My Treasure Chest"" by Niccolo Ammaniti and Antonio Manzini,
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Niccolò Ammaniti, trans. from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt. Canongate, $15 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-78211-834-3
Ammaniti (I’m Not Scared) conjures a solemn dystopia in this picturesque view of a world gone wrong. Four years after a virus wipes out all adults, 13-year-old Anna Salemi spends her days foraging in the ruins of a Sicilian landscape ravaged by...
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