Rights list 2015

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Rights list 2015
Rights list 2015
Foreign Rights Manager
Emanuela Canali
MONDADORI lIbRI
via Mondadori,1
20090 Segrate-Milano
[email protected]
tel. +39.02.7542.3167
fax +39.02.7542.3047
Foreign Rights Assistant
Elena Biagi
MONDADORI lIbRI
via Mondadori,1
20090 Segrate-Milano
[email protected]
tel. +39.02.7542.3017
fax +39.02.7542.3047
www.librimondadori.it
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Abate Carmine
Barbero Alessandro
Bianchi Marco
Biglino Mauro
Bignardi Daria
Bisotti Massimo
Bollani Stefano
Brizzi Enrico
Carabba Enzo Fileno
Cavallo Roberta - Panarese Antonio
Cesaretti Paolo
Costa Antonio Maria
Cotto Massimo
Crupi Stefano
Cugia Diego
D’Aloja Francesca
De Crescenzo Luciano
Delle Foglie Daniela
Dionisi Stefano
Distefano Antonio Dikele
Enoch Luca
Evangelisti Valerio
Feniello Amedeo
Ferrario Rachele
Genovesi Fabio
Giacobino Margherita
Giorello Giulio
La felicità dell’attesa
Le Ateniesi
La mia cucina italiana
La Bibbia non parla di Dio
Santa degli impossibili
Foto/grammi dell’anima
Parliamo di musicisti
Il matrimonio di mio fratello
La zia subacquea
Smettila di fare i capricci
Le quattro mogli dell’imperatore
Scaccomatto all’Occidente
Su me stesso non ho mai scritto niente
A ogni santo la sua candela
Nessuno può sfrattarci dalle stelle
Anima viva
Te voglio bene assaje
La felicità delle suore
La barca dei folli
Fuori piove. Dentro pure. Passo a prenderti?
Il risveglio del Potente
Nella notte ci guidano le stelle
Napoli 1343: alle radici del male
Margherita Sarfatti
Chi manda le onde
Ritratto di famiglia con bambina grassa
Il fantasma e il desiderio
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Progetto grafico: Gianni Camusso Impaginazione: Elisabetta Bertani
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Gratteri Nicola- Nicaso Antonio
Grossi Pietro
Manfredi Emilio Ernesto
Moresco Antonio
Nirenstein Fiamma
Oggero Margherita
Ozpetek Ferzan
Pasini Giuliano
Pennacchi Antonio
Piattelli Palmarini Massimo
Pitzorno Bianca
Rampini Federico
Ravasi Gianfranco
Re Roberto
Recchioni Roberto
Riva Alberto
RossiLuca
Sacchi Arrigo
Selvetella Yari
Tesio Silvia
Troisi Licia
Valsecchi Pietro
Vattani Mario
Vespa Bruno
Xharryslaugh
Zecchi Stefano
Zöggeler Armin
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Oro bianco
L’uomo nell’armadio
La vita è brutale e poi muori
Gli increati
Il Califfo e l’Ayatollah
La ragazza di fronte
Sei la mia vita
Il fiume ti porta via
Canale Mussolini parte seconda
Il nono giorno della creazione
La vita sessuale dei nostri antenati
L’età del caos
Le pietre di inciampo del Vangelo
Cambiare senza paura
YA . La battaglia di Campocarne
Il Samba di Scarlatti
Catturandi
Calcio totale
La banda Tevere
Ama ciò che sei
Dove va a finire il cielo
Prima famiglia
Doromizu - Acque torbide
Donne al potere
Gray
Il lusso
Ghiaccio acciaio anima
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LITERARY FICTION
390 pages February 2015
Fabio Genovesi
Chi manda le onde
Who Sends Waves
An exuberant contemporary novel told with the tenderness of a Fellini film
On the shore of the sea Luna, an
albino girl, collects a thousand
strange things that wash ashore
while her brother, the king of
the surf, rides the waves. He
is so different from her. He is
tanned by the sun of Versilia
and adored by all the girls. And
yet, he only has room in his
heart for Luna and his mother,
Serena, a beautiful woman who
raised them alone. Sandro, who
has come of age but still lives
with his parents and gets by
selling necklaces to tourists, is
desperately trying to win her
over. Then Zot, a mysterious boy
who comes from Chernobyl and
lives with Ferruccio, the irascible
retired lifeguard.
These are some of the true-tolife characters that animate this
novel full of hilarious, poignant,
bittersweet stories across every
page.
Fabio Genovesi draws a concise
and ironical portrait of an
authentic, sincere Italy, an Italy
free of cliché and stereotypical
postcard images, an Italy with
deeply human characters, whose
destinies are, at the same title,
universal.
FABIO GENOVESI (born in 1974 in
Forte dei Marmi) is one of the
most original voices in Italian
contemporary fiction. His first
novel Esche vive (2011) was
translated in ten languages.
Rights sold in Germany/Insel,
France/Lattes,
Netherlands/
Signatuur,
Brasil/Valentina,
UK + US/Europa Editions.
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LITERARY FICTION
256 pages March 2015
Margherita Giacobino
Ritratto di famiglia con bambina grassa
Portrait of a Family with a Fat Daughter
A powerful family saga
A masterfully written novel
that brings to life the destiny
of a humble family lead by a
strong cast of women: Maria,
the beloved mother who is
as firm as the earth beneath
your feet; Michin, the brilliant
spinster aunt never known but a
soulmate nonetheless; Polonia,
the midwife, sweet and bon
vivant. And above all the rest,
there is the magna Ninin, the
aunt who raised Margherita.
In retracing her family’s journey,
the author describes over a
century of Italian history: from
the countryside of Piedmont
at the end of the nineteenth
century, to Germany where her
father was taken prisoner during
the Second World War, through
the economic boom to today.
And then: the stories the women
shared with the children while
they huddled in the stables for
warmth: the stories of the Magne,
the aunts who in the twenties
chose factory work in order to
gain freedom from their families,
and the incredible story of a girl
who crossed the ocean alone, all
the way from California back to
the small native town in Italy.
MARGHERITA GIACOBINO (born
in Turin in 1952) is a writer,
translator and film director. She
translated - among many things Wuthering Heights and Madame
Bovary.. Her latest novel is L’uovo
fuori dal cavagno (Elliot, 2010).
Rights sold in France/Stock,
Germany/Antje Kunstmann and
UK + US/Dedalus.
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LITERARY FICTION
1032 pages March 2015
Antonio Moresco
Gli increati
The Uncreated
The third volume in Moresco’s monumental trilogy
A unique novel that will disturb,
delight, awe and thrill readers,
especially those who still
expect something from life and
literature.
Antonio Moresco is now
considered to be one of Italy’s
leading writers.
The peak of his art, and the
landing point of his entire
literary trajectory, Gli increati
is an autonomous novel but
is also the conclusion to his
earlier works, Gli esordi and
Canti del caos, the two pillars of
his literary architecture. Fields
of poetry, philosophical and
scientific theories, appearances
of historical figures agitate the
waters of this vast and flowing
narrative unleashed for twelve
hundred pages.
It is presented as the journey of
the narrator, in first person, in
the Afterworld.
In reality, it is a novel that leads
us to a dimension where we have
never been, and the author calls
it Gli increati.
ANTONIO MORESCO (Mantua, 1947)
is an author of freakish talent.
It took him years to complete
the monumental and heretical,
thousand page long, Canti del
caos (2009), that established
him as the most solitary and
uncompromising Italian writer.
Moresco’s recent shorter works
include Gli incendiati (2010),
La lucina (2013) (rights sold
to Verdier/France, Archipelago
Books/USA, Anagrama/ Spain,
Dybbuk/Czech Rep) and Fiaba
d’amore (2015).
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LITERARY FICTION
458 pages June 2015
Bianca Pitzorno
La vita sessuale dei nostri antenati
Our Ancestors’ Sex Lives
“There’s no such thing as a normal family”
June 1979. While attending a
conference at Cambridge, the
young Ada Bertrand, a professor
of Greek literature, makes three
acquaintances that will change
her life forever: an anthropologist who claims he can speak with
the dead, his young assistant - a
medium who relies on a talisman,
and a handsome young stranger
who, in a fleeting encounter,
gives her her first real orgasm,
revealing the indissoluble union
between Eros and Thanatos.
Upon her return to Italy, with a
newfound energy and inspiration, Ada begins to research her
family history from her parents,
who raised her and her orphaned
cousin, Lauretta, to her aristo-
cratic grandmother, Ada Ferrell,
and her eccentric gynecologist
uncle, Tancredi.
Thanks to a series of strange coincidences, Ada discovers ancient maps, paintings, jewelry,
and diaries that contradict the
official and respectable family
history she was so proudly passed
down by her grandmother.
Nothing is as had been told, and
believed.
BIANCA PITZORNO with more than
two million copies sold, is the
author of Italy’s most cherished
children’s books. She wrote this
novel for her readers who have
now grown and wonder, “Do her
characters ever fall in love?”
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LITERARY FICTION
216 pages May 2015
Pietro Grossi
L’uomo nell’armadio
The Man in the Closet
Three surreal stories, full of irony and magic
A stool in the great hall of an
airport starts spinning on its pin
and does not stop, as if animated
by perpetual impulse: arousing
first distracted glances by some
travelers, then growing curiosity,
and finally an alarming form of
collective worship ...
The solitary and eccentric young
scion of a wealthy Florentine
family who is passionate about
the use of the scalpel. He uses it
to remove the surface of things of all things - and to draw artwork
of shocking intensity. That is,
until, the use of this unusual
artistic tool gets out of hand.
A modern girl, single and eager
to find a sweet but unobstructive
boyfriend, falls in love with a
man who is willing to hide away
neatly in the closet among the
coats and underwear when she
needs to be alone.
Three unusual and original
stories. A work masterfully
written, able to transport us to
new universes.
PIETRO GROSSI (Florence, 1978)
has lived in New York, Rome and
Milan, working in the cinema,
as a translator and a copywriter.
In 2006 he made his début with
Pugni, a collection of short stories
(winner of the “Independent
Foreign Fiction Prize” and 2010
Campiello Europa Prize). In 2011
he published the novel Incanto,
English rights sold to The
Pushkin Press.
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LITERARY FICTION
110 pages May 2015
Daria Bignardi
Santa degli impossibili
The Saint of Impossible Causes
“If you’ve seen the light even just once, you’ll remember it forever.”
Mila is about to turn forty. Now a
wife and mother, her life is on the
tracks with no other stops in sight.
She lives in Milan, a city where
stress is the main contagion. It
is impossible to walk by the San
Vittore prison - where Mila is a
volunteer - without feeling deep
sadness at that cage. Even more
impossible is finding the words
to communicate when life is lived
between work, children, and the
silences that have accumulated
over the years.
Mila wishes she could pray
to Saint Rita, Saint Patron of
Impossible Causes, with the
same confidence and abandon
that her grandmother had shown
her when she was little. But
where that light had been, there
is instead a shameful shadow,
calling her into the dark.
Mila makes a knowing and
shocking gesture, ending within
the white walls of a hospital. It is
there, that she will meet a woman
who goes straight to the heart
of things and helps her find the
reasons for walking in this world.
DARIA BIGNARDI (born in Ferrara),
is a journalist and screenwriter
and the star of a popular TV
talk-show. In 2009 her debut
novel Non vi lascerò orfani was
a poignant literary case with
100,000 copies sold. She is also
the author of L’acustica perfetta
and L’amore che ti meriti,, rights
sold in Germany/Insel, Brasil/
Bertrand, Turkey/Kirmizi Kedi,
Albania/Dudaj, Slovenia/MLK,
Serbia/Evro Giunti, Poland/
Edra Urban.
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HISTORICAL NOVEL
212 pages September 2015
Alessandro Barbero
Le Ateniesi
The Athenian Girls
A shocking fresco of life in Greece in 411 B.C.
With his unique ability to bring
history to life, Alessandro Barbero
takes on an impressive task: he
sets, in classical Athens, a drama
that is eerily modern and at the
same time brings to the stage an
ancient comedy.
Athens, 411 B.C.: two old veterans,
Thrasyllus and Polemon, survived
the inglorious battle of Mantinea,
where the Athenians were defeated
by the Spartans. They are making
their living by working the land,
and have yet to find husbands
for their daughters, Glicera and
Charis.
The two old men believe politics
are all that matter, but the two
girls think their fathers are living
in a dream world: for them, the
young Cimone, son of Eubulus,
rich, arrogant and cavalier, is the
man of their dreams.
When all the men gather in the
city for the first performance of
a play by Aristophanes, the girls
break all the rules of a patriarchal
society and go to Cimone’s house.
At the theater, Lysistrata decreed
the first strike of women against
men in order to invoke the end of
all wars, and the night in Eubulus’
villa takes a dramatic turn ...
ALESSANDRO BARBERO (Turin,
1959) teaches medieval history
at the University of Turin. In
1996 he won the Premio Strega
with Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr.
Pyle, gentiluomo, a literary case
translated worldwide.
The rights to his last novel Gli
occhi di Venezia (2011) were sold
in UK + US/Europa Editions,
France/
Tallandier
and
Slovenia/Mladinska Knjiga.
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LITERARY FICTION
358 pages October 2015
Carmine Abate
La felicità dell’attesa
The Happiness of Waiting
A family saga spanning four generations across a century and three continents
A choral narrative with the pace
of a thriller, revolving around
vengeance for an untimely death.
It is in the States, in the year
1903, that Andy Varipapa, a guy
from a small Italian village,
becomes the world champion of
bowling and the mentor to Jon
Leto who, from the same village,
will depart three times: first
for revenge, then for love, and
finally for work.
In Los Angeles, thanks to Andy,
Jon meets a young woman with
powerful magnetism, like a siren:
a woman, at the time called
Norma Jeane, soon to be known
across the globe by another name.
An extraordinary epic that
takes place in Italy, the US
and Australia, delving into
our collective memory across
the Twentieth century with a
fabulous cast of characters: from
the founder, Carmine Leto, who
returns to Calabria with his
American wife and dies under
mysterious circumstances, to
his son Jon, who follows in his
footsteps, and his grandson
Carmine, the story’s narrator.
And the women, such marvel of
strenght and tenacity: Shirley,
the “American wife”; the restless
Lina (who will never come back
to Italy) and her daughter Lucy,
who unexpectedly returns to her
country of origin to care for her
dying grandfather.
CARMINE ABATE was born in 1954
in Carfizzi, an Italian-Albanian
community in Calabria, SouthItaly. He has published a glorious
series of prize-winning novels,
among them La collina del vento
(100.000 copies sold and 2012
Campiello Prize).
His books have been translated
in France, USA , Germany, The
Netherlands, Greece, Portugal,
and Albania.
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LITERARY FICTION
540 pages October 2015
Enrico Brizzi
Il matrimonio di mio fratello
My Brother’s Marriage
A family saga full of irony and postcards from the past
Teo is 38 years old, has a secure
job, and a different girl every
weekend to keep his mind off the
woman he loves. He is fine for
the moment, unlike his brother,
Max, who has always been radical
in everything he does: from
rebelling against his parents,
to his passion for mountain
climbing, from building a family
as one does in their 30s, to
divorcing ruinously in his 40s...
Max suddenly disappears with his
children, and so Teo goes to the
Dolomites to find him. Driving
along the long stretch of highway,
he tells the story of their lives
from the late 70s to the present:
their childhood in Rimini,
socialism and its collapse, the
advent of social networks and the
organic foods movement...
A funny and touching story of
an Italy that no longer exists,
and the hilarious exploits of
two brothers: which of them is
deluded? Who chose the best
path?
ENRICO BRIZZI (Bologna, 1974)
debuted sensationally when he
was only twenty years old with the
highly successful Jack Frusciante
è uscito dal gruppo, the manifesto
of a young generation which was
made into a film and the rights of
which were sold in twenty-four
countries.
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LITERARY FICTION
382 pages September 2015
Enzo Fileno Carabba
La zia subacquea
The Subaqueous Aunt and Other Family Abysses
A brilliant and irresistible personal Amarcord
This story starts in a time and
a place of legend: summer in
Abruzzo, where our protagonist
would spend his holidays with
his paternal grandparents. The
sea is the primordial element
in which occur the first exciting
discoveries of young Enzo’s
life: his first contacts with the
creatures that inhabit the waters
and seabed.
His home is populated by a
family of educated and eccentric
characters. In this place, love is
arguing fiercely over nothing.
There is Enzo’s Grandfather, a
judge who, according to his wife,
is a “big whore”; Great-uncle
Manin also a magistrate; Aunt
Anna, a whimsical, taciturn
woman devoted to swimming; and
Enzo’s parents, absorbed in their
work, often absent, but regarded
with tender and affectionate
irony, an irony particularly
assigned to his father, a film critic
who submitted his child, then
his grandchildren, to watching
movies unsuitable for their age,
loves poker and bets on horses as
though it were his second job…
Carabba in this very personal
Recherche du temps perdu has the
extraordinary ability to use a
consistently ironic tone that is
sometimes bewildered, at times
romantic, and reminiscent of
certain Fellini films.
ENZO FILENO CARABBA was born
in Florence in 1966. He is the
author of novels, noir and fantasy
stories. In 2011 he published
with Mondadori Con un poco
di zucchero,, very successfully
translated in Germany by btb.
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LITERARY FICTION
350 pages January 2016
Antonio Pennacchi
Canale Mussolini parte seconda
Mussolini Canal part two
The eagerly awaited sequel to a literary masterpiece
Five years after the publication of
the first volume Antonio Pennacchi
delivers the second volume of
the story of the Peruzzi’s family:
and it’s again a rollicking feast
of adventures and misventures
following the same family across
a cockeyed version of modern
history, which begs to be read.
After laughing with and at its
characters, suffering with them
and becoming invested in the
fascinating story of a peasant
exodus from northern Italy to
the Pontine Marshes, as part of a
fascist bid to reclaim agricultural
land, the new novel starts from
the final years of WWII when
the US Army soldiers landed in
the area and defeated German
troops, up to the economic boom
in the 1960s.
The main character is now Diomede
Peruzzi, son of Modigliana and an
unknown father. Unforgettable is
the opening scene, where Diomede
walks out of the bank, wheeling
away a cart full of banknotes after
the Americans bombed the Banca
d’Italia.
Walking alongside such masters
as Steinbeck and García Márquez,
this novel stands as a masterpiece
of storytelling. Pennacchi is
very talented in constructing a
parallel universe where the reader
develops a true relationship with
the characters. You won’t be able
to help missing the Peruzzi family
when it is time to separate.
ANTONIO PENNACCHI (Latina, 1950),
an uncompromising powerful
storyteller, was a factory worker
until the age of fifty. In 2010
he published the first volume
of Canale Mussolini a bestseller
with 500.000 copies, crowned
with Italy’s most prestigious
literary prize, Premio Strega.
Rights were sold in Germany/
Hanser, France/Liana Levi,
Netherlands/De bezige Bij, UK/
Dedalus, Denmark/Gyldendal,
Croatia/Algoritam,
Albania/
Dituria, Macedonia/Ili-Ili.
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UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION
250 pages January 2016
Stefano Crupi
A ogni santo la sua candela
Every Saint his Candle
The rise and fall of “candid” Ernesto driven by a ruthless, dark mother
Finding a job in Italy during the
economic recession is not that
difficult, you just have to know
how it works. Ernesto, who grew
up in the “Quartieri Spagnoli”
and lost his father, has recently
managed to receive his degree
in economics. He knows exactly
how the game is played. The first
move? Get behind the right saint.
His unrestrained search for
success is rooted in the figure
of his strong, ambitious and
ruthless mother Maristella,
a woman who was raised in
adversity and widowed after
only three years of marriage. For
years she has flanned and plotted
for their own radical social
redemption. In her youth, she
had a weakness for powerful and
charismatic men, which brought
her to cross paths with Alfonso
Malatesta, a man who years
later would become a powerful
camorra boss. Ernesto becomes
the means by which Maristella
can leap forward to bring her
grand plan to fruition. Ernesto
also inherited from her a sense
of determination and a certain
lack of scruples: everyone can be
used, and anyone will work, even
Maristella herself.
To become someone, show no
weakness.
STEFANO CRUPI (born in Caserta in
1977) is a journalist since 2010
and contributes to several local
newspapers. In 2014 Mondadori
published his debut novel,
Cazzimma,, soon to be translated
in Brasil by Bertrand.
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UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION
294 pages April 2015
Francesca D’Aloja
Anima viva
A Living Soul
“Never look your enemy in the eye, for you may stop hating him”
Twenty-year-old Angelika Berger
is strolling along the streets of
Paris with her father, Hans, when
a boy bored and locked in his
room to study, grabs a bow and
shoots an arrow out his window,
stopping its whistling trajectory
in Hans’ chest, killing him
instantly.
Angelika is now alone.
She never met her mother as
she grew up with her father, a
shy Professor of Philosophy. In
emptying their apartment, she
comes across a small safe that
holds a diary and a faded photo.
It is just the beginning of a series
of revelations that will take
Angelika from Paris to London,
to Nancy, and back in time to the
1940s in a little town not far from
Lublin, where the events that
forever tarnished the history of
her family began.
She finds that her grandfather,
was the famously efficient
commander of the Majdanek
concentration camp. A terrible
weight of guilt hangs over
Angelika’s shoulders, but from
the past comes a sign: a wooden
sled, carved by a talented
Jewish prisoner for the camp
commander’s children. The man
who carved it is still alive and is
key to the redemption she seeks
for her family’s memory…
FRANCESCA D’A LOJA made her
directing debut in 1997 with
the documentary film “Piccoli
ergastoli”, shot inside the
Rebibbia prison. Her first book
was Il sogno cattivo (Mondadori,
2006) translated into French by
Gallimard.
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UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION
276 pages May 2015
Margherita Oggero
La ragazza di fronte
The Girl in Front
If you secretly look into a window, you may discover a secret, a crime, a love
When he was a boy, newly arrived
in Turin from the south, he had
been enchanted by the girl who
would sit and read on her balcony.
When she was a girl, tormented
by her wild twin brothers, she
would take refuge on her balcony
to dream of the lives of others.
Life reshuffled the cards, and
she is alone, with only one motto
“be enough for yourself ” and
one secret pleasure: spying from
behind the curtains into the dark
front window. Until something
unexpected happens, or rather
two things, that makes her heart
beat faster ...
A kind of remake of La finestra
sul Cortile (The Back Window)
complete with a thrilling murder
and police investigation, the
story transforms into a romance
with every turned page.
A piece of tender romance with
great originality.
Another delicious Oggero’s novel
that will keep you enthralled to
the last pages.
MARGHERITA OGGERO lives in Turin
and has taught in almost all kind
of schools. In 2002 she published
La collega tatuata,, the first in a
series of mysteries starring the
school-teacher Camilla Baudino,
which have become a highly
successful TV series.
Among her foreign publishers:
Piper and DVA/Germany, Albin
Michel/France, Ripol/Russia,
Presença/Portugal.
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COZY CRIME
246 pages April 2015
Yari Selvetella
La banda Tevere
The Roman Job
Big Deal on Madonna Street meets Romanzo Criminale
Mauro Urbani has been called
“Tevere” ever since the day,
laden with gold and rings, he
threw himself into the river from
the Ponte Sant’Angelo as a test of
courage: he was young, nothing
could happen.
Now over 50, he has just been
released from prison. One
evening his daughter Monya
reveals she is pregnant, and she
and her boyfriend are still in
college. It is high time Tevere
acts the father and promises: “I’ll
take care of you!”
He brings on his recruits: his
two most trusted friends, Peppe
Loria, known as “the Fakir”, six
feet of muscle and violence, a
small brain, and a heart of gold,
and Mario “Bombay”, a part time
bartender who dreams of opening
a chiringuito on the beach in Ibiza.
The band is reunited, but they are
still missing a plan.
At this stage enter Rashid, a
delinquent of obscure provenance
with the look of an Arab prince.
Will the group manage to pull
ahead, avoiding their arch enemy
“the Octupus” and the corrupt
inspector D’Amato, the man who
sent Tevere to jail?
An exhuberant contemporary
novel that harmonizes the grim
atmosphere of a crime novel with
ironic melancholy.
YARI SELVETELLA (Rome, 1976),
a journalist and novelist, is an
expert on Roman crime and
has had great success with his
volume Roma Criminale (Newton
Compton, 2009).
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NOIR
354 pages May 2015
Alberto Riva
Il Samba di Scarlatti
Scarlatti’s Samba
A noir and a love story set in hypnotic Rio de Janeiro
Franco Scarlatti, an ex-cop from
Italy, has lived in Rio for years
running a real-estate agency
on the Copacabana beach. He
is a lover of good food and
good music. But his day-to-day
existence is thrown into chaos
when the body of a man dressed
as Mandrake is discovered. And
that body was of the famous
journalist, Gigi Fossati. The
police come to Scarlatti for help
in a parallel investigation and he
soon discovers that things are
not what they seem.
There are mysteries surrounding
the Italian expat community,
a group that moves among
the dazzling present and the
shadows of the past with grace
and impunity. Moreover, his
inquiries bring him back to his
own circle of friends.
A noir, a comedy, a poignant
love story set in hypnotic Rio de
Janeiro, a long way from what we
see in postcards, like Pennac’s
Belleville.
Riva’s unforgettable characters
will capture the hearts of readers;
starting from Franco Scarlatti,
part hero, part crook, who
behind cynicism, sharp jokes,
and ambition, hides a quick
brain and a very noble soul.
ALBERTO RIVA (born in Milano
in 1950) lives in Rio de Janeiro
where he corresponds for a
number of Italian magazines.
He is the author of Sete (Thirst),
German rights of which have
been sold to Goldmann.
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COMMERCIAL FICTION
280 pages May 2015
Emilio Ernesto Manfredi
La vita è brutale e poi muori
Life Is Brutal, then You Die
The ultimate novel on contemporary Africa
Valerio Montale has lived in
Africa for more than ten years.
He found drug dealing provided
better than freelance journalism.
Every two or three months he
flies to Guinea Bissau to pick
up a load of cocaine, takes it to
his home in Ivory Coast to cut
it, then sells it to diplomats and
aid workers across the continent
from Addis Ababa. He lives a life
without a country, nomadic, with
no real ties, except for one: his
six years’ old daughter Malaika.
But the little girl is kidnapped
and Valerio discovers that the
kidnapping has to do with his
childhood best friend, Gaetano
Currò, a seemingly enlightened
entrepreneur, who is actually
involved with the ’ndrangheta. If
he wants to see the child again,
he must follow the instructions
which will lead him from one
end of Africa to the land of
their fathers, Calabria, in his
own personal journey to hell.
Manfredi’s mix of truth and
fiction tells the real story of a
shocking Africa today and shows
why the future of the West could
really depend on the “dark
continent”.
EMILIO ERNESTO MANFREDI, an
expert on sub-Saharan Africa,
lives in Addis Ababa and
contributes to “Vanity Fair”,
“L’Espresso” and “la Repubblica”.
He is a consultant for several
government
and
nongovernmental agencies.
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THRILLER
272 pages June 2015
Giuliano Pasini
Il fiume ti porta via
The River Carries You Away
Death has begun its harvest. But Commissioner Serra is back
Just a short article in the
newspaper and Roberto Serra
understands what he must do.
The doctor who showed him
how to tame the “dance”, the
lucid hallucinations that force
him to re-live the scenes of the
cases under investigation, Mario
Gardini, was murdered. And
although he is on suspension
from the police department,
Robert needs to dive into the case,
if only to distance himself from
the demise of his relationship
with Alice.
He goes back to Emilia, to
Pontaccio, a place of few souls
on the great river Po, a town
that looks like it came out of the
pages of a Guareschi novel with
its catholic marshal, communist
policeman, and a “Bar trattoria”
run by the beautiful and lonely
Serenella and her rebellious
teenaged daughter, where he can
put to good use his gastronomic
and wine-tasting expertise as
sommelier.
A compelling mystery awaits him
in the shadows of the patients
of the asylum housed in the
monumental palace of Colorno.
Until the closing, in 1979,
director of the great and gloomy
“cà Mat” was just Mario Gardini.
GIULIANO PASINI (born in 1974)
debuted in 2012 with the novel,
Venti corpi nella neve,, praised by
Corriere della Sera as “the new
star of the Italian thriller”. In 2013
he published with Mondadori the
second Serra’s adventure, Io sono
lo straniero.
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UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION
168 pages September 2015
Silvia Tesio
Ama ciò che sei
Love Who You Are
A brave novel about identity and the many possibilities of love
Marta is sound asleep in her Paris
apartment when her phone rings.
It is the middle of the night and
her mother’s voice on the line
tells her to come home to Turin
right away because Andrea is
dying. A few hours later, Marta is
back in her hometown of Turin.
She runs to the hospital and skids
to a stop in front of the room
where her first love lies. Only
Andrea is now a woman.
Marta always knew Andrea’s
greatest wish was to not be a
man. They grew up together, they
commiserated over their difficult
family lives, shared their wish
for building a different future for
themselves. Marta could not help
but feel for him something very
close to love.
When Andrea dies just a few
hours later, Marta discovers that
she and her daughter are named
his heirs. It is within the four
walls of the cozy home they have
just inherited that they unearth
the secrets that were hidden over
the long years between them.
They are simple, but incredible
secrets, that bring sense, peace,
and new life.
SILVIA TESIO (Turin, 1970) has
worked as an advertising
copywriter and a screenwriter
for TV and theater. In 2010, she
published her novel, Piacere, io
sono Gauss (Nice to Meet You, I’m
Gauss), which was translated
in Spain by Random House
Mondadori.
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COMMERCIAL FICTION
204 pages September 2015
Daniela Delle Foglie
La felicità delle suore
The Happiness of the Nuns
A breezy blend of romantic comedy and light irony
Maddalena is 26 years old, hates
nuns, and has a passion that
people would consider unusual
for a girl: porn.
Her father is the most loved
psychotherapist in Italy, a
Catholic tv personality. Her
mother is a retired teacher of
religious studies.
Maddalena thinks her life sucks
and is forever in search of the
missing link that will make
her happy. One evening, after
listening to yet another sermon
by her father on TV, talking about
where and how he had asked her
mother to marry him, she makes
a bet: if God exists, he will lead
her to the missing link the next
day, at 11 a.m., in Giardino degli
Aranci ... right where her parents
decided to be happy together for
a lifetime.
And that day, at that hour, in
that garden, Maddalena meets
Simone, a serious Catholic who
turns her world upside down.
Maddalena proposes that she and
Simone get to know the worst
about each other, and after doing
so, neither one runs away.
Maddalena decides to try to be
happy with Simone and to make
peace with her father and with
the Church, as had her idol,
Belladonna: a porn actress who
grew up in a Mormon family and
later became the queen of porn
stars.
DANIELA DELLE FOGLIE (Bari,
1983) worked as a story editor
and writer for a major film studio
and wrote several episodes of TV
series. Apart from television,
her two passions are porn and
Mormons.
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UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION
156 pages September 2015
Diego Cugia
Nessuno può sfrattarci dalle stelle
No One Can Evict Us From the Stars
An enchanted fairy tale on wonderful power of imagination
The night Mandela died, Massimo
Pietro Cruz was one of the one
hundred and twenty million
impoverished Europeans. He
was once a star of a television
variety show, but he has since
lost everything. He now lives
in a lonely country house, with
only the company of two German
shepards and a sheep. On the eve
of his eviction, as he whiles away
his time mesmerized by a website
showing the real-time account of
births and deaths in the world,
he hears a noise downstairs.
He heads downstairs and finds a
child. At first he thought it was a
thief. But who is this child, really,
who shares his same name,
possesses a wisdom beyond his
years, and can see his past and
future?
The child is only the first of
several unpredictable visits
Massimo Pietro receives that
night ...
Suspended between A Christmas
Carol and the magic of The Little
Prince, Cugia has written a
wonderful book that reminds us
of one of life’s most important
lessons: we may lose all our
material possessions, but we can
remain rich in our hearts so long
as the star of our imaginations
shines.
DIEGO CUGIA (Rome, 1953), a
radio scriptwriter, is the author
of “Alcatraz”, one of Italy’s most
popular radio programs, and of
the bestsellers Jack Folla: Alcatraz
(2000), Jack, the Man of the People
(2002), The Flower Seller (2002)
and Jack Folla: Letters from Silence
(2004).
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FAMILY SAGA
404 pages November 2015
Pietro Valsecchi
Prima famiglia
First Family
The outstanding saga of the Palermo’s family:
their dreams, their misery, their fortune
Pasquale and Carmela crossed
the ocean from Sicily in search
of fortune in the place where
dreams can turn into reality,
to find that New York is a hard
city, as cold as its climate and
its inhabitants. Even the Italians
who emigrated before them are
not ready to welcome them,
locked in a parallel society
headed by the “Black Hand”, the
ruthless and violent criminal
organization that manages the
life of Italian immigrants in New
York.
But Pasquale has a hard head
and works tirelessly to make his
dream come true. His children
have dreams of their own: Frank,
the eldest, wants to become a
true American, integrate, and
study to be respected. Sal is the
exact opposite, driven by pure
ambition: there is nothing he
would not do to get rich and
powerful. Nina looks up to him,
so blond and elegant. And then
Tony, the youngest and the only
American-born, struck by the
new extraordinary invention:
cinema.
Years later, Tony will convince
Mr. Warner, the largest producer
in Hollywood, that his family’s
story should be a movie.
PIETRO VALSECCHI (Crema, 1953)
an expert in film and theater,
partnered with Camilla Nesbit
in 1992 to found the leading film
production company TaoDue
Film, that has created some of
the most important film and TV
series in Italy.
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THRILLER
520 pages September 2015
Antonio Maria Costa
Scaccomatto all’Occidente
The Checkmate Pendulum
A frightening and compelling thriller set in the world of politics and finance
Investigating arms trafficking
and suspicious banking, TV
journalist Pierre G. Bosco exposes
maneuverings that prompt him
to address big questions.
Is the common currency of
euro a step towards greater
EU integration or will it cause
Europe’s disintegration? Will
Germany, the EU’s dominant
country, save Europe or wreck
it a third time in a century? Is
the bankers’ impunity because
finance is a war and major powers
are at war right now? Can Europe
and the US fight back Russia’s
neo-imperialism and China’s
global ascendancy?
In the dramatic search for
answers,
Bosco
overcomes
professional sanctions and
dead threats to unveil an epic
conspiracy in which crime,
finance and politics collude.
The much-sought prize is not
just hegemony over Europe: it is
global supremacy.
ANTONIO MARIA COSTA for almost
a decade was the “UN drug czar”,
namely the UN Under-Secretary
in charge of fighting drugs and
crime; he previously served for
forty years management positions
in international bodies such as the
European Union, the European
Bank for Reconstruction and
Development and the OECD.
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THRILLER
430 pages October 2015
Luca Rossi
Catturandi
In the Name of the Father
Also the heroes hide a darkside
The novelization of a TV series
soon to be aired by RAIUNO
presented as the new “La Piovra”,
the worldwide successful TV
series on Mafia.
Palma Toscano is a tenacious
woman
who
leads
the
“Catturandi”, an elite police
force based in Palermo charged
with the apprehension of the
country’s most-wanted mafia
criminals. In addition to the
failings in her personal life, she
is tormented by the mysterious
death of her father, whom she
considers almost an hero, which
she continues to investigate.
Her real task, however, is
tracking down the fugitive mafia
boss Sciacca.
The research into the crime
ring is long and laborious, with
as many traps as tips from the
outside. Her investigation will
take several turns towards a
surprising ending.
Told with a furios pace and with
constant shifts in perspective,
a major twist at the end will
disclose that nothing is as it first
appears.
LUCA ROSSI (Milan, 1955) is a
journalist and screenwriter. In
1992
he
published
with
Mondadori his bestseller, I
disarmati.
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HISTORICAL FICTION
350 pages November 2015
Valerio Evangelisti
Nella notte ci guidano le stelle
The Stars Guide Us through the Night
The third chapter in Evangelisti’s reconstruction of Italy’s history
The third chapter in the series Il
sole dell’avvenire, the ambitious
saga detailing the history of Italy,
from 1875 to 1950, through the
personal stories of three families
of workers and share croppers
from Romagna.
The first volume focused on the
agrarian crisis, while the second
volume centered on the colonial
empire and World War 1. In this
final instalment Fascism is a new
element dissolving family unity.
Spartaco (“Tito”) Verardi joins
the Fascists, aiming to destroy
the achievements of the labor
movement. Destino Minguzzi
is absorbed, almost in spite of
himself, by the world of illegal
immigrants and anti-fascists.
Soviettina (“Tina”) Merighi joins
the Liberation War as part of the
most unconventional partisan
group.
None of them made the history
books, but each made a difference
and played a role in reforming
Italy.
And each, by the end of it,
wondered if the new Italy is really
what they wanted.
VALERIO EVANGELISTI (born in 1952
in Bologna), historian, started
in 1992 the publication of the
extremely successful series of
novels dedicated to the medieval
Inquisitor Eymerich - fantastic
and tolkienesque - translated by
Rivages, Heyne, Grijalbo, Asa,
Conrad, Allfa, Znak, Mlada
Fronta.
Vivere lavorando o morire
combattendo (2013) was the
first volume of the series Il sole
dell’avvenire; the second one
Chi ha del ferro ha del pane was
released in 2014.
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300 pages
NOIR
February 2016
Mario Vattani
Doromizu - Acque torbide
Muddy Waters
The dark and frightening story of a young Italian man in Tokyo
Alex settled in Tokyo to attend
university. He knows very little
of Italy, his native country: his
mother died when he was a
child and he grew up in London.
Neither place has much hold on
him, he is however maniacally
fascinated by Japanese culture:
its cinema, women, sex, and the
traditional tattoo, irezumi.
Suddenly and unexpectedly, he
comes to possess a large amount
of money that could literally
change his life. This happens as
he lands his first job as assistant
to a film director who works in
the field of hentai porn.
Thanks to this, he gains access to
a dark world that mesmerizingly
pulls him into the most vicious
and unthinkable places of the
Japanese capital and splits him
into two different directions:
shinto and zen buddhism from
one side, and the desire to open
himself to this unknown new
world from the other.
Alex’s initiation to Japanese
culture, its politeness and
formalism, and subculture,
with its violence, toughness and
humiliation, will take readers
deep into the muddy waters, the
doro-mizu, of Japan.
This book is indeed a noir but
also a great declaration of love for
Japan and its women.
MARIO VATTANI (born in 1966)
grew up in Paris and London,
has served as diplomat in
Washington and Cairo and is
currently working at the Italian
Embassy in Tokyo.
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MEMOIR
220 pages May 2015
Ferzan Ozpetek
Sei la mia vita
You Are My Life
Love never stops
Two men drive away from Rome
early in the morning. Throughout
the journey, the man at the wheel,
a famous screenwriter, tells the
story of his life to the person
sitting beside him, the man he
has loved for some years now.
He triggers a series of memories,
starting from the building in
via Ostiense where everything
happens, a crossroads of
different solitudes and the scene
of dazzling and overwhelming
passions.
He came to Rome from native
Istanbul to make cinema. It was
the 80s, there was an atmosphere
of extreme freedom, a large
gay community, long summers,
transgression, the scourge of
AIDS, and the kind of solidarity
that cements friendships.
With an irresistible style, light
and touching at the same time,
Ferzan Ozpetek, the director
who understands emotion better
than anyone, takes us on a
journey back and forth in time,
suspended between tears and
laughter, drama and reality.
FERZAN OZPETEK (born in 1959 in
Istanbul) is a Turkish-Italian
film director and writer residing
in Rome.
Among his immensely popular
films: His secret Life, Facing
Windows, Saturn in Opposition
and Loose Cannons. In 2013 his
first novel Rosso Istanbul sold
50,000 copies and was translated
by Can in Turkey.
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MEMOIR
144 pages September 2015
Stefano Dionisi
La barca dei folli
The Boat of Fools
A journey through the dark alleys of our mind
Stefano Dionisi, a prolific film
and television actor, was
hospitalized following a psychotic
episode. He was sent to the
psychiatric ward of a famous
Italian clinic with a diagnosis
of manic depression. Because
his symptoms were persistent,
he was re-admitted to the clinic
and hospitalized again, the
final diagnosis described his
condition as bipolar disorder in
pharmacological remission.
With great courage and unexpected
writing skills, Dionisi masterfully
describes and discloses his
personal experience and the
sufferences of the “boat of
the fools”, the humanity who
accompanied him in his journey
into the inferno of the psychiatric
asylums. Moving is the way he
describes with great lucidity and
empathy his and their resignation
of living in a “world apart”,
unknown to normal people; the
repetitiveness and exasperating
monotony of daily life, fantasies
and nightmares, obsessions and
fears, fragility and aggression, and
the need for human contact and
tenderness.
A sincere, deeply human
and touching account of the
difficulties of existence.
STEFANO DIONISI (1966), over
thirty years appeared in more
than sixty films for the big
screen and television. In 1994,
he starred in Farinelli, which
won the Golden Globe and was an
Oscar nominee for best foreign
film.
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MEMOIR
284 pages March 2015
Arrigo Sacchi
Calcio totale
Total Soccer
“Soccer is played primarily with the head and you win with that, your feet come after!”
The story of one of the most
legendary coaches in the soccer
history told for the very first
time.
“I never realized that to be a
jockey you had to be a horse
first.” One of the most famous
quotes in the history of soccer
came from a man under intense
pressure from the Italian media.
Having never played soccer as
a professional player, Arrigo
Sacchi’s ability to manage a team
trying to reach the pinnacle of
European soccer was in scrutiny.
Having beaten AC Milan twice
with Parma, Sacchi has been
handpicked by Silvio Berlusconi,
who attempted to revolutionize
Milan with new signings after
buying the club.
Early results were far from
promising, but once Milan got
into form, they displayed why
they are thought of as arguably the
greatest side in soccer history,
winning back-to-back European
cups. The players at Sacchi’s
disposal were of fantastic quality,
but Sacchi himself played a huge
role in Milan’s success, showing
new tactical innovations which
have influenced managers even
today.
Sacchi’s time in the spotlight
was short, but the legacy left by
his tactical innovations makes
him known as one of the greatest
manager in soccer history.
ARRIGO SACCHI, born in 1946, is
one of the most popular Italian
soccer coaches and he is regarded
as one of the greatest managers of
all times.
The Spanish rights to this book
were sold to Roca Editorial.
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MEMOIR
200 pages September 2015
Armin Zöggeler
Ghiaccio acciaio anima
Ice Steel Soul
“My toy store was the forest”
The perfect body, tough-looking,
with an invincible reputation,
Armin Zöggeler was nicknamed
“the Iceblood Champion” for his
always cold, rational approach
to the races, after he entered
the imagination of Italians with
his gold win at the 2006 Winter
Olympics in Turin. He is an
untarnished hero. An athlete who
does not betray emotions. But he
has overcome, cried, been afraid,
been in trouble, he has faught,
he has prayed. And that is why he
has never liked the nickname: it
does not respect his humanity.
One year after his sixth gold
medal in six Olympics, the
greatest luger ever tells his story:
from his childhood on the farm,
his work in the woods, his
downhill trek to go to school, and
his fights with bullies. Then his
discovery of love, complicity, and
rebellion, the sleepless nights to
steal a few thousands of a second
on a sleigh, and an aging body.
Nothing can be left to chance
when travelling at 140km/h down
ice.
ARMIN ZÖGGELER (born in 1974 in
Meran) is now a retired luger.
At the Winter Olympics, he won
six medals in the same individual
competition in six consecutive
Olympics, the first to do so.
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YA NOVEL
184 pages January 2015
Antonio Dikele Distefano
Fuori piove. Dentro pure.
Passo a prenderti?
It’s Raining Outside. It’s Raining Inside.
Can I Pick You Up?
A fresh and original new voice
“Forgive me if you’ve seen the
worst of me, if I’ve been boring,
if I make you cry in front of your
friends while I’m across town, if
I let you cross the street alone,
if I said, “me too” when you
said, “I love you,” when it would
have been better to say, “I love
you even more than yesterday”.
Forgive me if I’m not the man
your mother would approve of, if
my gifts were predictable.”
This is the story of a first love and
a first ending of love. A love story
that lasted a year, and was hated
by everyone all the while.
Why? Because Antonio is black,
and his girlfriend’s family
dislikes him for it. And then there
are his concerns over his own
family, his friends, school, and
the millions of other tribulations
of being a teen: dating, love,
moments of growth…
The story of a young man told
in pieces, from one scene to
the next. There are pages heavy
with emotion, and unforgettable
sentences that will break your
heart and doubtlessly be passed
along. It is a story of singular
moments, like separate songs
that, put together, become the
soundtrack to life.
ANTONIO DIKELE DISTEFANO is 22
years old and was born in Italy to
Angolan parents.
Rights sold in Spain/Montena
and Greece/Patakis.
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INSPIRATIONAL
148 pages February 2015
Massimo Bisotti
Foto/grammi dell’anima
Film Frames from the Soul
“Always remember the most important thing: stay true to your heart!”
Bisotti’s previous book Il quadro
mai dipinto, an inspirational
novel, enchanted his readers
with his magical and poetical
prose, made of raw emotions and
powerful illuminations and sold
80,000 copies so far. Bisotti’s
new book reads like a collection
of contemporary fairy tales,
somewhere between Aesop’s
Fables and The Little Prince.
It hides a small miracle within
its pages: the author’s ability to
dig into his heart and touch the
reader’s, bringing bare souls
together.
In his new book Bisotti is once
again a voice of inspiration,
inviting us to abandon prejudices
and recognize the most authentic
and vital aspects of ourselves.
He
writes
the
path
to
acknowledgement and acceptance,
teaching us to experience
emotions fully, and to accept our
imperfections rather than falling
prey to the fear of failure.
The new book by a cult author
whose commercial success is
driven by his enthusiastic
readers’ word-of-mouth.
MASSIMO BISOTTI was born and
lives in Rome. He studied
literature, plays the piano, and
is passionate about psychology.
“I started writing so that my
words could heal wounds and be
transformed in scars.”
His first n ovel Il quadro mai
dipinto will soon be translated in
Spain by Planeta and in Brasil by
Bertrand.
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YA NOVEL
400 pages October 2015
Luca Enoch
Il risveglio del Potente
The Awakening of the Mighty
A Lord of Dragons is born! A new magical adventure from the Dragonero universe
The second volume in the series
Dragonero, the novelization of the
highly successful comic series.
A novice wizard is given an
important mission: deliver a
young dragon to the Storm Belt,
an insourmountable barrier that
separates the known world
from the Hidden World, where
thousands of years ago the Great
Dragons had settled after leaving
Frondar, in the Dragonero land
of Impero.
There are many out there who
would like to get their hands on
the baby dragon for its powers as
a Potente, one of most sentient
dragons ever to live. Controlling
him would mean having power
over an entire army of dragons
ready to follow their lord’s every
command.
And so begins a voyage out of
Frondar to the lands of Orlo
del Mondo, crossing the desert
of Vhâcondàr, and the Middle
Kingdoms of rich and exotic
sultans, and the length of the
Green Forest, a land of talking
trees.
LUCA ENOCH, together with
STEFANO VIETTI has created the
fantasy comic Dragonero, a
runaway hit with fifty thousand
copies translated in several
countries, including the United
States. Dragonero has been
published monthly since 2013.
In 2014 Mondadori published
the series’ first volume, titled La
maledizione di Thule.
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YA NOVEL
312 pages June 2015
Xharryslaugh
Gray
Gray
Love has just one direction
A fan fiction turned into a
passionate YA novel.
Gray is a love story that is young
and refreshing, like its fifteen
year-old author who already has
hundreds of thousands of fans
who dream with her every word,
and play One Direction as the
soundtrack to their lives.
For Harry and Heisel, it was love
at first sight, but their story is
not a smooth one. They are both
messed up and crazy, a kind of
borderline dysfunctional people
like for real ... Which means they
fight, they hurt, and they have
misunderstandings until they
finally drop all their barriers
and let themselves fall into each
other completely.
If only for a moment. Or maybe
longer.
Gray is a true publishing success
that has already won the hearts of
millions of young adults.
Born as fan fiction on the reading
platform Wattpad, it has totaled
more than 5 million views of
young readers who literally could
not stop reading this book.
XHARRYSLAUGH
comes
from
Tuscany and began writing in
school. First came short personal
stories and then Gray, which
combines her two big passions:
music and writing.
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YA NOVEL
300 pages October 2015
Roberto Recchioni
YA. La battaglia di Campocarne
YA. The Battle of Campocarne
The narrative debut of the favourite cult Italian comic book writer
The first volume in an eagerly
awaited trilogy, which marks the
narrative debut of a cult Italian
comic book writer.
Granduomo, the Hood, and
Grandma Cleaver are the
three
legendary
characters
whose exploits have inspired
generations of boys and girls.
Among their admirers is Stecco, a
young man without any particular
skills or talents, who journeys
to the famed Dorsoduro, the
adventurer training camp run by
his heroes.
There, Stecco finds friends,
comrades in arms, and a chance
at love.
Together, they begin training
for the battle of Campocarne, a
fierce baptism by fire in which
Stecco will learn that the trail to
adventure is paved by pain and
suffering. For the birth of an
adventurer begins with the death
of innocence.
ROBERTO RECCHIONI is a star in
the world of comics, and is
currently the editor of the series
“Dylan Dog”. He is the author of
several books including Mater
Morbi, Asso, Ammazzatine, Orfani,
Ucciderò ancora Billy The Kid, and
Battaglia.
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YA NON FICTION
200 pages November 2015
Licia Troisi
Dove va a finire il cielo
Where Goes the Sky
The starry sky, as explained by the queen of Italian fantasy
In this book Licia Troisi, the
bestselling fantasy novelist,
steps away from her writing
desk to take us on a journey
across the stars. She shares her
passion for her other job, as an
astrophysicist, and reveals the
mysteries and secrets behind the
night sky.
“I first learned about astrophysics
when I was eleven through a
documentary on the life and work
of Stephen Hawking.
Twenty-three years later, when I go
out in the evening and look at the
sky, I am still filled with wonder
and awe. The starry sky never fails
to fascinate us, it is imbued with
mystery; and the more we explore
it, we find that every answer only
leads to more questions. It’s like
a game made especially for us, a
puzzle which we will never really
solve. The fun part is we can keep
playing forever.
And I want to tell you all about it.”
With simplicity and clarity Licia
Troisi offers everything you need
to know about the universe and
our place in the world.
LICIA TROISI (Rome, 1980), “le
nouveau Tolkien en jupon” is also
an astrophysicist by boot. She
was just twenty when she wrote
her first trilogy Cronache del
Mondo Emerso and in the years
since its debut, she became the
“queen of Italian fantasy” and
wrote three additional series as
well, selling two millions copies
in Italy and abroad.
Among her foreign publisher:
Heyne/Germany, Univers Poche/
France, Rocco/Brasil, RBA and
Destino/Spain, Dogan/Turkey,
Tianjin Press/China, Videograf/
Poland, Alma Littera/Lithuania,
Open Rood/WEL, Fantastikos
Kosmos/Greece.
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NON FICTION
250 pages April 2015
Nicola Gratteri - Antonio Nicaso
Oro bianco
White Gold
The big book about cocaine’s international trafficking
Up until the nineties, cocaine
was the drug of the elite. Today it
is the drug of the masses: there
are those who smoke it, and
those who sniff it. According
to UNODC, the United Nations
Office for Drug Control and
Crime Prevention, in 2012 there
were 243 million people, aged
between 15 and 64, who have
used illegal drugs at least once.
Of all the substances, cocaine
was by far the most popular drug
used, and it continues to be the
the ’ndrangheta’s best-seller.
Today, cocaine is a much safer
investment than government
bonds. In this book, Antonio
Nicaso and Nicola Gratteri trace
the large-scale trafficking of
cocaine, going on a journey that
takes us from Colombia up to
Calabria, showing step by step
this business that enriches drug
traffickers, impoverishes and
kills drug addicts, contaminates
the banking system, and corrupts
those with executive power.
Oro bianco is a book that rekindles
hope that the global scourge can
one day be eradicated.
NICOLA GRATTERI is the leading
prosecutor in the fight against
the ‘ndrangheta. ANTONIO NICASO
is one of the world’s leading
experts on the ’ndrangheta. Both
of them received threats. Gratteri
lives under police protection
since 1989. Nicaso was forced to
leave Italy and lives in Canada
since 1990. They co-authored a
long list of essays.
Among their foreign publishers:
RHM/Spain, La Martiniere/
France, Lebowski/Netherlands,
Avliga/Bulgaria.
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SCIENCE
290 pages April 2015
Massimo Piattelli Palmarini
Il nono giorno della creazione
The Ninth Day of Creation
The latest findings in genetics and neuroscience
“The secrets of life are already
known; only the details remain
to be clarified, although that
is no easy task. I doubt you
would find it interesting.” The
response Jacques Monod gave
a young Piattelli Palmarini
were symptomatic of the view
scientists had about biology and
genetics in the early sixties:
everything seemed to have
been discovered. The worldrenowned book, The Eighth Day
of Creation, written by Horace
Freeland Judson, had masterfully
described the extraordinary
discoveries made in the field
of molecular biology, including
deciphering of the genetic code.
In this book, using the title as
both an homage and a statement
of purpose, Piattelli Palmarini
describes the new conceptual
frameworks
that
dominate
the “ninth day”: the study of
evolutionary
developmental
biology, of epigenetics, and
of the microbiome, including
the innovative technologies
that have made their study
possible, ushering in the era of
personalized medicine.
An updated account of the latest
frontiers of scientific research
to be read by anyone, moving
between specialized description
and narrative.
MASSIMO PIATTELLI PALMARINI
(Rome, 1942) has taught at MIT,
Harvard, the Collège de France
and the University of Bologna. He
is Professor of Cognitive Science
at the University of Arizona. He
is a contributor for TLS and the
“Corriere della Sera,” and is the
author of numerous essays.
French translation rights sold
to Odile Jacob.
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SELF-IMPROVEMENT
296 pages March 2015
Roberto Re
Cambiare senza paura
Change without Fear
How to win in the face of changes in work, relationships and life
The world around us is evolving
so rapidly that it forces us to make
constant changes in schedules,
actions, attitudes, behaviors,
habits, ways of thinking. In a
rather short time these small and
continuous changes transform
the way we live and who we are.
The primary feeling one has in the
face of the whirlwind of change
is fear. Any change, in fact,
determines the abandonment
of something known in favor
of something unknown, the
deletion of a part of our past for
the uncertainty of the future.
This widespread feeling of fear
often leads people to resist
change, and results in fear
guiding the choices we make
and forcing us to live in a kind of
inferno.
Winning fear gives you the
possibility of entering a new
paradise made of growth and
richness.
This book will help you in finding
a new direction in life.
ROBERTO RE is the founder and
president of HRD Training
Group, a company specialized
in management training and
behavioral and personal growth.
He is the author of the bestsellers
Leader di te stesso (2004) and
Smettila di incasinarti! (2006).
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PARENTING
252 pages May 2015
Roberta Cavallo - Antonio Panarese
Smettila di fare i capricci
Stop the Tantrums
Solving your child’s tantrums without screaming or scolding
Roberta Cavallo and Antonio
Panarese, parenting consultants
specialized in the early stages
of growth (0-21 years), were
nicknamed the “Blue Angels of
children” during their lecture
series, The Formula for a Happy
Upbringing.
Together they have instructed
parents on the method of “natural
growth”, and with this new book
they address the every parent’s
nightmare: temper tantrums.
Overturning the many platitudes
on the subject, they parents with
new perspective and practical
examples they can use to convince
their children to do things like
turn off the TV, eat everything
on the plate, stop playing, go to
school, finish their homework,
get dressed, go to sleep, brush
their teeth, wash their hands,
take a shower, not touch, clean
up ...
All without making a fuss.
ROBERTA CAVALLO - A
NTONIO
PANARESE together have published
the bestseller Smettila di reprimere
tuo figlio, and Le sette idiozie sulla
crescita dei bambini.
Rights sold to Esfera de los
libros/Spain.
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NON FICTION
180 pages May 2015
Mauro Biglino
La Bibbia non parla di Dio
The Bible is not about God
A surprising comparison of the Old Testament and the Homeric texts
“The Bible does not speak of
God. When it speaks of Yahweh, it
means an individual who is part
of a group of individuals called
Elohim. These individuals have a
relationship with humanity, but a
special relationship, in the sense
that they fabricated it. Yahweh
was one of them, one of the less
important ones.”
The author has expressed this
singular theory in the many
essays he has written to date
that have been bestsellers and
discussed in conferences around
the country.
In this new book, he takes up his
main thesis and strengthens it
with an original and surprising
addition: the presentation of
dozens of parallel and mirror
passages from Homer, the
Bible, and scientific documents
produced by biologists and
geneticists in support of this
shocking hypothesis.
MAURO BIGLINO (Turin, 1950) is a
writer and scholar of the history
of religions who specializes in the
translation of Paleo-Hebrew. He
translated the nineteen books of
the Bible for Edizioni San Paolo
and is the author of La Bibbia non
è un libro sacro and Il Dio alieno
della Bibbia.
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RELIGION
276 pages September 2015
Gianfranco Ravasi
Le pietre di inciampo del Vangelo
The Stumbling Blocks of the Gospel
The darkest passages of the Gospels illustrated by a very authoritative biblical scholar
The 140 Gospel passages that
Ravasi presents here will
undoubtedly be shocking. For
example: “If anyone comes to me
and does not hate his own father
and mother and wife and children
and brothers and sisters, yes, and
even his own life, he cannot be
my disciple.” (Luke 14:26). Or:
“Do not think that I have come to
bring peace to the earth. I have
not come to bring peace, but a
sword.” (Matthew 10:34).
It is not only the Old Testament
that has difficult and scandalous
passages. Even the bright pages
of the Gospels contain lines that
trip the critical reader as well
as those who join in Christ’s
message with heart and mind.
At the vanguard is Cardinal
Ravasi, who interpretes the
passages using the message of
John the Evangelist. His Gospel
preserves the memory of a brief
dialogue that seals the darkness
by introducing a ray of light. “So
Jesus said to the Twelve, ‘Do you
want to go away as well?’ Simon
Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to
whom shall we go? You have the
words of eternal life, and we
have believed, and have come to
know, that you are the Holy One
of God.’”(John 6.67 to 69).
GIANFRANCO RAVASI (born in
Lecco in 1942), archbishop of
the Roman Catholic Church,
is currently the President of
the Papal Commission for the
Cultural Heitage, A Hebrew and
biblical scholar, he has written
a great number of essays on the
subject of religion.
Among his foreign publishers:
Herder/Germany, Fleurus/
France, Verbo Divino/Spain,
Saint Benedict Press/WEL,
Jednosc/Poland, Dom Quixote/
Portugal.
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HISTORICAL NON FICTION
192 pages September 2015
Paolo Cesaretti
Le quattro mogli dell’imperatore
The Emperor’s Four Wives
The story of Leo VI from Byzanthium and of his court
882 a.C.: twelve beautiful virgins
are gathered at the Court Palace
in Constantinople from Emperor
Basilio, who wants to choose
among them the wife for his son
and successor Leo. The winner of
this kind of “beauty contest” was
Theophane Martinakia, who was
forced to marry the only 16 years
old Leo in a wedding arranged by
their parents for political reason.
Theophane is the first of the four
wives Leo married in succession
following an incredible sequence
of losses. After Theophane’s
death, he married the intelligent
Zoe Zaoutzaina and then, when he
became a widower for a second
time, the beautiful Eudokia
Baiane. However the death of
Eudokia and their newborn son
appeared to mark the end of any
hopes for Leo, who was being
undermined by his brother and
threatened by military rebellions
in the provinces of East Asia.
He is finally given an heir (the
future Emperor Constantine
VII Porphyrogenitus), out of
wedlock, by the dark-eyed
Zoe. Their belated wedding,
however, and thus the legitimacy
of his heir, is opposed by the
Archbishop of Constantinople.
A fascinating blend of historical
rigour and narrative charm.
PAOLO CESARETTI, a Byzantine
scholar, edited the Italian
editions of various reference
works by Cyril Mango. He is the
author of Teodora (2001) and
L’impero perduto (2006).
Among his foreign publisher:
Payot/France,
Ariel/Spain,
Patmos/Germany,
Oceanida/
Greece, The Vendome Press/
USA, Alnari/Serbia.
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HISTORICAL NON FICTION
180 pages November 2015
Amedeo Feniello
Napoli 1343: alle radici del male
Naples 1343: the roots of evil
The first evidence found showing the camorra existed in as early as 1343
1343: there is famine in Naples.
After nightfall, a Genoese ship
loaded with wheat is attacked
by members of two local clans
who brutally kill several sailors
and their captain. The attackers
returned to the city, greeted by the
cheers of their countrymen, and
the blind eye of the authorities.
The Republic of Genoa presented
the Kingdom of Naples with
a formal protest against the
incident. But, in a historical
document of great importance
today, King Charles I of Anjou
admitted he did not control his
own city, that the true rulers of
Naples were the “family.”
The purpose of this book is not to
retrace the birth of the Camorra
through the traditional roads
of ethnology, anthropology,
sociology or even folklore for
the umpteenth time. Amedeo
Feniello takes a new route
through a number of previously
unstudied elements and makes
a unique observation: that these
“families” of Naples were in
power at the time of the birth of
the Angevin Kingdom of Naples one of the first European nation
states. They would have been
leaders of the new state, actively
participating in the business of
the royal family and serving as a
new class of directors, officers,
and bureaucrats.
AMEDEO FENIELLO, a historian of
the Middle Ages, is the author
of several historical essays
including Sotto il segno del leone
(Laterza, 2011), Dalle lacrime di
Sybilla (Laterza, 2013). He is a
contributor to “La Lettura”, the
cultural supplement of “Corriere
della Sera”.
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BIOGRAPHY
400 pages November 2015
Rachele Ferrario
Margherita Sarfatti
Margherita Sarfatti
The biography of the queen of art in fascist Italy
Writer and journalist Margherita
Sarfatti was also the leading
female art critic in Europe: she
founded the “Novecento” group,
curated galleries, attended the
studios of the major artists,
discussing their works and
buying them for herself. Her
influence on Italian culture and
art is incomparable.
This detailed biography reveals
the story of a major player in
history who, for too long, has
remained in Mussolini’s shadow.
She was Mussolini’s lover, a
socialist, and then a fascist; she
was educated, rich, beautiful,
and belonged to the international
elite. Modern and feminist,
Margherita did not align with the
fascist model of femininity: she
supported women’s emancipation,
women’s suffrage, free love,
and embodied the ideal of the
“flapper.”
Thanks to extensive documentary
research,
Rachele
Ferrario
revives the temperament of a
free woman, who lived ahead
of her time and who influenced
the most powerful men in Italy,
among them Umberto Boccioni:
their relationship is here
explored more deeply than ever
before.
RACHELE FERRARIO, a historian
and contemporary art critic,
teaches at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Brera. He writes for the
“Corriere della Sera” and “Style.”
With Mondadori she published
Regina di quadri (2010) and Le
Signore dell’arte (2012).
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CURRENT AFFAIRS
152 pages September 2015
Fiamma Nirenstein
Il Califfo e l’Ayatollah
The Caliph and the Ayatollah
The West under siege, caught between the Caliph’s fanaticism and the Ayatollah’s expansionism
Is ISIS a danger to Europe?
Why are the Sunnis and Shiites
fighting each other so fiercely
if they are all Muslims? How
reliable is Iran, whose leader
wants an atomic bomb at all
costs? Is the West aware of being
caught between the Caliph’s
fanaticism and the Ayatollah’s
expansionism? And why do
so many foreign fighters leave
the comforts of an affluent but
corrupt society for the “purity” of
the Islamic State?
Fiamma Nirenstein explains
the reasons for the intraMuslim conflict, anti-Western
sentiments, and anti-Semitic
hatred that animate both ISIS
and Iran: a fury before which
the West struggles to respond
appropriately,
invoking
multiculturalism for fear of
accusations of Islamophobia, and
ideological rejection of the use of
force.
FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN, a journalist
and writer, is a columnist and
commentator for “Il Giornale”.
She has written ten books, the
most recent are: Israele siamo
noi (2007) and A Gerusalemme
(2012).
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PHILOSOPHY
250 pages September 2015
Stefano Zecchi
Il lusso
Luxury
The eternal desire of lust and Beauty
We live in a society devoted to
profit and functionality, one that
sees beauty in the ephemeral,
and luxury in expense. But what
is luxury?
Stefano Zecchi has a counterresponse: luxury is the natural
(and legitimate) aspiration to
beauty which belongs to every
human being, and the desire to
improve our existence by going
beyond the everyday routine.
Luxury escapes any monetary
sum. It is an experience of life, a
priceless value of the spirit (like
righteousness, beauty, truth),
an aspiration to a life of beauty,
removed from the ostentation of
power or money.
Zecchi traces the concept of
luxury, starting from primitive
societies where it was a gift
and not possession, touching
in its path the great classical
civilizations, the Renaissance
(when “great art” became
synonymous with majesty), the
Enlightenment, Marxism, to
the present day and the crisis
of the idea of beauty. Here,
Zecchi illustrates the parable
of a “skilled craftsman” partly
supplanted by industry, leading
to the birth of the brand.
And above all, he shows how
luxury, dominating the meaning
of beauty, requires culture and
aesthetic sensibilities.
STEFANO ZECCHI teaches aesthetics
at the State University of Milan. A
novelist, essayist, and columnist,
he has published many novels,
and the essays, such as Sillabario
del nuovo millennio, Il brutto e
il bello, L’artista armato, Capire
l’arte, L’uomo è ciò che guarda, Le
promesse della bellezza.
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PHILOSOPHY
120 pages October 2015
Giulio Giorello
Il fantasma e il desiderio
The Ghost and Desire
A surprising book on ghosts
In this book, philospher
Giulio Giorello gathers five
philosophical short stories,
some set in the foggy Northern
countries and some set under the
Mediterranean sun.
The reader will be brought to
know the existence of ghosts,
lares, unbodied souls, and
messengers from hell. Some are
perverse and deceitful, some are
playful jokers, and yet all these
spirits wish they weren’t dead.
Our deep envy of their living is
what creates the energy by which
we recognize them. They are
diaphanous creatures, intolerant
of good sense or political
correctness. But those emotions
are what help us persist in our
desire to desire.
And so ghost are dreams made of
the fabric of our wishes.
And yet these immaterial
entities, though perhaps unreal,
remind us that on this Earth
there exists far more than what
philosophy can conceive.
GIULIO GIORELLO (Milan, 1945)
is curently a professor of
Philosophy of Science at the
University of Milan and is a
frequent contributor to “Corriere
della Sera”. He is the author
of a long list of essays, widely
translated abroad.
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COOKING/HEALTH
298 pages October 2015
Marco Bianchi
La mia cucina italiana
My Italian Cook-book
The Italian tradition’s recipes re-interpreted with a healthy and tasty twist
In the 1950s, American biologist
and nutritionist, Ancel Keys,
was struck by the low incidence
of cardiovascular disease and
gastrointestinal disorders in
Italy and Greece. He discovered
that the Mediterranean is the
body’s natural ally against
disease. Today, Marco Bianchi is
taking the traditional recipes of
the regions and boosting their
nutritional value even more.
This book is a culinary portrait
of Italy’s 20 regions with 200
recipes. Some dishes are already
perfectly balanced in their
original version (the soups from
the North, cereals and beans from
the inland, and not to mention
the durum wheat pasta from the
South). Other dishes have been
re-interpreted to enhance their
potential health benefits.
Our lifestyle has changed over
the years. Compared to our
grandparents, we lead a more
sedentary lifestyle; we move less
and have different nutritional
needs than we had in the past.
So why haven’t we modernized
the way we eat? This question is
what started this journey through
traditional cooking. Now the best
cuisine in the world is also the
healthiest.
MARCO BIANCHI (Milan, 1978)
is a nutritionist and a science
journalist. He is a chef by passion
and author of a long list of
bestselling titles, the latest ones
of which are Io mi muovo (2014)
and Io mi voglio bene (2015).
His blog www.marcoincucina.it
reach more than 200 thousand
users a week.
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NON FICTION
152 pages November 2015
Luciano De Crescenzo
Te voglio bene assaje
Te voglio bene assaje
A short history of Neapolitan music
The Neapolitan export known
around the world, aside from
pizza, is its music.
The musicians from the South
have written magnificent arias
capable of touching the heart and
reviving a smile.
The poets and storytellers
matched the right words for every
occasion: those of celebration
in Funiculì funiculà (composed
for the inauguration of the first
funicular town) and those of love
lost in Era de maggio. Then those
of Malafemmina, Tammurriata
nera, ’O surdato ’nnamurato.
Songs so beautiful, they have
taken root like evergreens in the
world of music.
This vast and prestigious playlist
is presented thanks to the
practiced and passionate ear of
Luciano De Crescenzo, the most
famous expert on Neapolitan
popular culture.
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO (Naples,
1928) worked as an IBM engineer
for over twenty years and in 1977
debuted with his first book Così
parlò Bellavista.. Since then he
has published over thirty books,
which have been translated in 19
languages in which he managed
very successfully to make
“philosophy with Neapolitan
humour” accessible to everybody.
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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
144 pages
November 2015
Stefano Bollani
Parliamo di musicisti
Let’s talk about Musicians
Stefano Bollani’s favorites playlist
Stefano Bollani is a great
performer but also a very lively
character in the world of music.
He likes jazz, classical, rock,
ancient
and
experimental
music... This time, in the
wake of the great success of
his previous book, Parliamo di
musica, the great pianist opens
up and reveals his thoughts on
his colleagues, his heros, and
his past and present obsessions.
From Renato Carosone to Bill
Evans, from Frank Zappa to
Maurice Ravel, from Gorni
Kramer to João Gilberto, from
Billie Holiday to Elis Regina, this
book is a journey into a personal
and amazing musical pantheon,
a magnificent history of music
that serves as an enlightening
listening guide.
An entertaining and enlightening
way to tell us of the beauty of the
music.
STEFANO BOLLANI (Milan, 1972)
made his debut at the age of
fifteen. Since then he has
recorded hundreds of records
and
performed
concerts
worldwide, from the Town Hall
in New York to la Scala in Milan.
in 2013 Mondadori published
Parliamo di musica.
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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
220 pages
October 2015
Massimo Cotto
Su me stesso non ho mai scritto niente
I never wrote a word about me
Paolo Conte through his words
Paolo Conte never wanted to
define nor reveal himself. He
has always said that one of the
privileges of the artist is to keep
searching, hoping to never arrive
at an ultimate goal, because then
it wouldn’t make sense to keep
searching.
That’s why he never wanted to
write a book. But he has given
glimpses of himself in his songs
and in interviews, where he offers
priceless views and remnants of a
lost time.
This book, edited by Massimo
Cotto, who was born in the same
home town of Asti where the
sun is in your face and the rain
is on your back, gathers years
of Paolo Conte’s sentences and
statements, lightning strikes and
deep reflections, which he has
dismantled and reassembled like
a Dadaist poem.
What emerges is a giant fresco
of a unique artist. Accompanied
by the diary of a journey that the
two have made to America during
Conte’s first visit to the USA .
MASSIMO COTTO is a renowned
journalist specialized in music
and the author of a long list of
Italian stars’ biographies.
PAOLO CONTE is an Italian
legendary
singer-songwriter
often compared to Jacques Brel,
Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen.
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CURRENT AFFAIRS
288 pages September 2015
Federico Rampini
L’età del caos
The Age of Chaos
A trip through the world’s disorder
We are in a period of great
instability in which the old order
is crumbling and a new order
is nowhere to be found. This
book describes the fault lines
running through our world and
the forces that are reshaping it,
from geopolitics to economics,
from the environment to the
collapse of democracies, from
the technological revolution to
the role of emerging powers,
particularly India and Cina.
Chaos is seductive as a dynamic
principle and a strategic
resource.
On the one hand there are rulers
hopelessly rooted in the past and
unable to see the future. On the
other hand are the members of
the new elite, the main players
in the coming decades: guerillas
and tech start-ups who, for
varying reasons, see opportunity
in instability. So much so that
‘disruptive’ has become the
buzzword of Silicon Valley.
It is no wonder then, that for the
young and creative, chaos has
become a promise of unlimited
possibilities. Why focus on the
downside?
FEDERICO RAMPINI, after years
in Beijing, is currently the New
York correspondent for the daily
“la Repubblica”. He has taught in
the universities of Berkeley and
Shanghai. This is the ninth book
published with Mondadori.
His foreign publishers include
Laffont/France,
Presença/
Portugal and Dokoran/Czech
Republic.
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NONFICTION
444 pages November 2015
Bruno Vespa
Donne al potere
Women in Power
The women who made and make the history of Italy
In this new book, Italian history
is retraced following the line of
women who have made Italy great
and helped improve its image
worldwide. We follow women
in politics, the arts, medicine,
science, as well as entrepreneurs,
and women dedicated to welfare.
This study lead Vespa across
history, from Cornelia, the
mother of the Gracchi brothers,
through
the
Unification,
and to the modern day: from
Emma Bonino to Rita LeviMontalcini, from Margherita
Hack to Samantha Cristoforetti,
from Maria Montessori to Lina
Merlin, from Miuccia Prada to
Marina Berlusconi, from Grazia
Deledda to Oriana Fallaci, from
Gae Aulenti to Sofia Loren.
These pages show that in spite
of a largely male-centric culture,
women have never been too far
from the control room. And
when they have made it there,
they have always done so with
great competence and extreme
discretion.
BRUNO VESPA was born in 1944
in L’Aquila. Since 1996, his TV
program “Porta a Porta” has
been the most watched show on
politics and current events. With
Mondadori he has published a
long list of important essays - all
highly bestselling - giving his
many readers a chance to better
understand contemporary Italy’s
delicate political and financial
situation.
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Abate Carmine
Barbero Alessandro
Bianchi Marco
Biglino Mauro
Bignardi Daria
Bisotti Massimo
Bollani Stefano
Brizzi Enrico
Carabba Enzo Fileno
Cavallo Roberta - Panarese Antonio
Cesaretti Paolo
Costa Antonio Maria
Cotto Massimo
Crupi Stefano
Cugia Diego
D’Aloja Francesca
De Crescenzo Luciano
Delle Foglie Daniela
Dionisi Stefano
Distefano Antonio Dikele
Enoch Luca
Evangelisti Valerio
Feniello Amedeo
Ferrario Rachele
Genovesi Fabio
Giacobino Margherita
Giorello Giulio
La felicità dell’attesa
Le Ateniesi
La mia cucina italiana
La Bibbia non parla di Dio
Santa degli impossibili
Foto/grammi dell’anima
Parliamo di musicisti
Il matrimonio di mio fratello
La zia subacquea
Smettila di fare i capricci
Le quattro mogli dell’imperatore
Scaccomatto all’Occidente
Su me stesso non ho mai scritto niente
A ogni santo la sua candela
Nessuno può sfrattarci dalle stelle
Anima viva
Te voglio bene assaje
La felicità delle suore
La barca dei folli
Fuori piove. Dentro pure. Passo a prenderti?
Il risveglio del Potente
Nella notte ci guidano le stelle
Napoli 1343: alle radici del male
Margherita Sarfatti
Chi manda le onde
Ritratto di famiglia con bambina grassa
Il fantasma e il desiderio
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Progetto grafico: Gianni Camusso Impaginazione: Elisabetta Bertani
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Rights list 2015
Foreign Rights Manager
Emanuela Canali
MONDADORI lIbRI
via Mondadori,1
20090 Segrate-Milano
[email protected]
tel. +39.02.7542.3167
fax +39.02.7542.3047
Foreign Rights Assistant
Elena Biagi
MONDADORI lIbRI
via Mondadori,1
20090 Segrate-Milano
[email protected]
tel. +39.02.7542.3017
fax +39.02.7542.3047
www.librimondadori.it
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