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GRANDI & ASSOCIATI
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London Book Fair 2014
Agent’s Centre Table 18C
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Errico Buonanno, LOTTA DI CLASSE AL TERZO PIANO
Rizzoli, April 2014, pp. 320
The story of Marx and his landlord.
The year is 1861. Karl Marx is living in a run-down tenement building in London. He is penniless and
struggling with his latest philosophy book.
His inspiration will come from an unlikely source: his landlord and sworn enemy, Alan John Huckabee.
Together they embark on a plan that will change the world.
Errico Buonananno was born in Rome in 1979. He has published several books including Piccola
serenata notturna (Marsilio, 2003, winner of the Calvino Prize), and Sarà vero. La menzogna al potere
(Einaudi, 2009), L’eternità stanca (Laterza, 2012). Buonanno writes for TV and radio, and his articles appear
in the “Corriere della Sera” newspaper.
Massimo Cacciapuoti, NOI DUE OLTRE LE NUVOLE
Garzanti, March 2014, pp. 144
It’s the summer they’ll never forget. It’s a love so powerful it takes their breath away. And
changes their lives forever.
Nica is fifteen and her only friends are numbers and mathematics.
Sandro is sixteen and loves life, though illness keeps him isolated and permanently on the sidelines.
But fate brings them together in a gorgeous little village located in the untarnished Salento peninsula of
Southern Italy, and they spend the most unforgettable and unexpected summer of their lives, overcoming
boundaries, insecurities and fears.
Massimo Cacciapuoti was born in Giugliano, not far from Naples, where he still lives and works. His
novels include Pater familias, which was made into a film directed by Francesco Patierno, L'ubbidienza,
L'abito da sposa, Esco presto la mattina and Non molto lontano da qui.
Gabriele Dadati, PER RIVEDERE TE
Barbera, March 2014, pp. 243
A love story. The search for someone to accept our past in order to save our future.
Gabriele Dadati is given the job of interviewing Manlio Castoldi, an elderly novelist living in a small Northern
Italian town. The meeting brings Gabriele into contact with the Lombardy region – Italy’s “deep North” –
where the last shreds of hope in a prosperous future still linger, while the rest of the country is literally falling
apart. But more importantly, he meets Castoldi’s grand-daughter Tabita. Amid an attempted suicide and
recurring dreams, he spends three of the most intense weeks of his entire life. And he’ll never be the same
again.
Gabriele Dadati (Piacenza, 1982) has published: Sorvegliato dai fantasmi (peQuod, 2006; Barbera,
2008), short-listed for Book of the Year by RAI Radio 3’s Fahrenheit books programme; Il libro nero del
mondo (Gaffi, 2009) and Piccolo testamento (Laurana, 2011), presented at the 2012 Strega Awards. In 2009
Dadati represented Italy in the Mantua Festivaletteratura Young Writers Project.
Sandrone Dazieri, UCCIDI IL PADRE
Mondadori, May 2014, pp. 508
A superb thriller that will keep readers turning pages eagerly into the wee small hours, until
they reach the surprise ending.
Colomba Caselli is a female cop. Well, she was at least. She’d been the youngest ever head of the Rome
Homicide Division, but now lives in total isolation, unable to get over what she calls “The Disaster” – a
terrifying event that put her into hospital for a prolonged stay and since then has triggered massive panic
attacks. Dante Torre is a survivor. He was kidnapped as a child by a maniac who wanted to be called The
Father. The Father shut him away in a silo for nine years, taught him to read and write, and coerced him into
submission. However, Dante escaped only to discover that everyone believed him dead, and that he no longer
had a family. He now dreads enclosed spaces, and has made it his life’s work to find people who have
vanished without a trace and unmask child molesters, albeit unbeknownst to virtually everyone.
When a woman is found murdered just outside Rome, Colomba’s old boss puts her in touch with Dante. He
helps her search for the dead woman’s son who has disappeared. Dante has never worked with the police,
whom he despises for what happened to him, Colomba thinks Dante is an insufferable weirdo, but together
they make a discover that will change their lives forever. The boy was kidnapped by someone whose Modus
Operandi is identical to The Father, who everyone believes to be long dead.
But what if it really is the same man that had kept Dante a prisoner thirty years before? What if The Father
had never stopped kidnapping and killing in the shadows?
Sandrone Dazieri is one of the foremost names in Italian noir fiction. His success as a television screen
writer and one of his most popular characters, the Gorilla, as portrayed on screen by Italian actor Claudio
Bisio, have helped him carve a name for himself as a truly trail blazing author. This is his first foray into a
new genre: an unputdownable thriller that took him two years to write and features two absolutely
unforgettable characters.
Fabrio Geda, SE LA VITA CHE SALVI È LA TUA
Einaudi Stile Libero, May 2014, pp. 233
When you discover your place in the world, the only thing left to do is grab it. No matter what
it takes.
Seeing a Rembrandt at an art exhibit in New York triggers a chain reaction in the life of thirty-seven year old
Andrea Luna, an art teacher whose marriage is on the rocks. Thus begins a journey of discovery into life
during which he will plumb the depths of distress and scale the heights of joy. Andrea decides not to return to
Italy, and makes some truly memorable encounters. After turning over a new leaf, Andrea will stop at
nothing, even crossing the Mexican border illegally with the help of a people smuggler.
Fabio Geda was born in 1972 in Turin, where he lives. His books include Per il resto del viaggio ho sparato
agli indiani, L’esatta sequenza dei gesti, Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli and L’estate alla fine del secolo. His
books have been translated and are sold in 32 countries.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi, IL MIO NOME È NESSUNO: IL GIURAMENTO (VOL . I) IL RITORNO (VOL. II)
L’ORACOLO (VOL. III)
Mondadori, April 2014
A saga devoted to Ulysses.
Il Giuramento and Il Ritorno have already sold over 300.000 copies
The trilogy tells the story of Odysseus, the hero “of the complex mind”, man of “utmost patience” and the
“destroyer of cities”: the most modern of Homer’s heroes. The novels create a gigantic fresco spanning the
entire epic of archaic Greece, rich with colour, tension, extreme pathos, magic and imaginings, expressed
over the backdrop of grandiose scenes. Epics elements are explored in possible facts that might have actually
triggered the events of the epic recounted by Homer. L’Oracolo, in a new revised edition, completes the saga
dedicated to Ulysses.
Everyone who read the Alexander trilogy will love this story. An unforgettable adventure in which each one of
us will recognize himself and re-experience the tragic and heroic dawn of our own civilization.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Modena, 1943) is an archaeologist and scholar of the ancient Greek and
Roman world. His Alexander trilogy has been translated into 38 languages and published in 62 countries. He
has also written screenplays for film and television, has contributed journalistic articles to many magazines
in Italy and abroad and has written and conducted cultural programmes and television documentaries for
important international producers.
Il mio nome è nessuno: Rights sold to Macmillan (UK); Overlook (US); France (Lattès); Random House
Mondadori (World Spanish); Netherlands (Athenaeum); Greece (Psichogios); Romania (Editura Allfa);
Brazil (Rocco); Turkey (Pena)
English translation available
Chiara Marchelli, L’AMORE INVOLONTARIO
Piemme, April 2014, pp. 238
They’d grown up together. They hadn't been talked in years. But now, setting aside pain and
anger, they need to be together.
Riccardo never forgave his sister Irene for writing about him in her best-selling novel. Now Irene has fallen
into a coma after a serious accident and Riccardo ends up having to take care of her. With each passing day,
confronted by his sister’s silent body yet stubbornly beating heart, a loving relationship is rebuilt. And
strengthened when Riccardo reads the book he had always refused to open, but that now gives him back a life
he had never been able to see clearly.
Chiara Marchelli was born in Aosta and earned a degree in Eastern Languages from the University of
Venice. She lived in Belgium and Egypt before moving to New York, where she has lived since 1999.
In 2003 she published her first novel, Angeli e cani (Marsilio), which won the Rapallo Carige Opera Prima
Prize for first-time authors, and in 2007 a collection of short stories entitled Sotto i tuoi occhi (Fazi). She has
taught Italian and creative writing at New York University since 2004 and works with various American
agencies and publishers as an editor, copywriter and translator.
Bruno Morchio, LO SPAVENTAPASSERI
Garzanti, October 2013, pp. 250
Bacci Pagano, for whom feelings are an unknown quantity, falls in love like a starry-eyed
adolescent. Who would have guessed the effects it would have on his investigations?
Cesare Almansi, at the top of his game as an attorney, moves into politics and stands for election. When he
receives threatening phone calls he turns to Bacci Pagano, an old school mate from way back when both were
heavily into political activism, to discover who is making them. Investigations take a complicated turn when
the detective falls head over heels for the candidate’s beautiful publicist. Bacci eventually digs up answers in
the deepest, darkest recesses of his own past. And along the way makes the disheartening discovery that love
and friendship sometimes lead to excruciating disappointment, and that dredging up long buried truths is a
lonely exercise.
Bruno Morchio (Genoa, 1954) lives in Genoa, where he is a practising psychotherapist. His
publications include the popular Police Commissioner Bacci Pagano series, including Colpi di coda
(Garzanti, 2010), Rossoamaro (Garzanti, 2008) Le cose che non ti ho detto (Garzanti, 2007) and Con
la morte non si tratta (Garzanti, 2006), translated in Germany/DTV.
Polish and French excerpts available.
Sebastiano Nata, LA MUTAZIONE
Barney, January 2014, pp. 102
A man cries out against the myths and senselessness of a modern society that bows to big
bucks. At any cost.
The business manager Giovanni Breni is staying in a fancy Miami hotel, where he thinks back over his life
and decides he’s a failure, both personally and professionally. And yet, in the course of that seemingly endless
night, during those long hours peopled by ghosts, he has a change of heart.
Determined to turn his life around, he takes the first steps towards becoming a better person, with the
strength to stand up and fight for his freedom.
Sebastaiano Nata was born in Rome in 1955. His first novel was Il dipendente (Theoria, 1995), followed by
La resistenza del nuotatore (Feltrinelli, 1999) which won him the Città di Vigevano Prize, Mentre ero via
(Feltrinelli, 2004) and Il valore dei giorni (Feltrinelli, 2010).
Antonio Steffenoni, UN DELITTO MOLTO MILANESE
Rizzoli, January 2014, pp. 432
An entertaining party game, revolving around sex, vices and lies.
Commissario Ernesto Campos is ordered to investigate the murder of Marcello Luccioli, the elderly manager
of a famous advertising agency in Milan. With the help of his trusty deputy Pazzi, the enquiry soon reveals
more than anyone bargained for: money laundering, ruthless women who’ll stop at nothing to achieve
success, old grudges, workplace envy… anyone coulda dunnit. The setting is a dull, dreary, upper-class Milan
where Ernesto Campos delves not only into the crime, but also into the depths of his own soul.
Antonio Steffenoni lives in Milan, where he has worked in advertising for years. He has written countless
novels including Vietato giocare con la palla (2008) and Meglio andare lontano (2010).
Chiara Valerio, ALMANACCO DEL GIORNO PRIMA
Einaudi, March 2014, pp. 350
A thoughtful and cogent description of the mechanisms that govern modern life.
Now aged thirty-five, Alessio Medrano has loved numbers since he was a child. Counting and calculating is
what makes him tick, until his painful discovery that there’s one thing that can't be counted: feelings. He’s a
brilliant, slightly corny broker who comes across a rather unusual policyholder, Elena Invitti, and the
equation to end all equations: love.
This novel is cheeky enough to make a stab at measuring feelings, and smart enough to make us believe we’re
all immortal until proven otherwise.
Chiara Valerio was born in 1978, earned a PhD in Mathematics from the Federico II University in Naples
and lives in Rome. Her novels and short stories include: A complicare le cose (Robin, 2007), La gioia piccola
d’esser quasi salvi (Nottetempo, 2009), Spiaggia libera tutti (Laterza, 2010). She has published a new
Italian translation of Flush by Virginia Woolf (Nottetempo, 2012). Chiara Valerio is an editor for the Italian
literary magazine “Nuovi Argomenti”, and writes for the Italian daily “L’Unità”, the Sunday supplement of “Il
Sole 24 Ore” and for “Glamour magazine”. She is a contributor to the RAI Radio 3 programme “Ad alta voce”
and the RAI television programme “Pane quotidiano”.
NON FICTION
Stefania Barzini, FORNELLI D’ITALIA
Mondadori, April 2014, pp. 160
One hundred and fifty years of Italian history, told through our kitchens.
Food, cooking and eating can say much more about a country than history books. Fornelli d'Italia is a
journey back in time to reveal how (and how much) Italy has changed since 1861. Advertisements, films,
newspapers and magazines from the time help tell the story, along with anecdotes, recipes and ingredients.
Stefania Barzini, novelist and foodwriter, contributes to various magazines. She is the author of several
cookery books and has published the novel L’ingrediente perduto (Sonzogno 2009) and La scrittrice
cucinava qui (Gribaudo, 2011) and translated by Editora Saraiva (Brazil).
Willy Pasini, LIBERE E A VOLTE SFRONTATE
Mondadori, March 2014, pp. 186
Female sexuality viewed from every direction.
The new Millennium gave many women permission to achieve success and sexual freedom, but for others
sexuality and feelings are still very much a taboo.
Willy Pasini explores the realm of female pleasure, casting the spotlight on the latest treatments for common
sexual disorders, and offering women evidence that when they rediscover their genuine femininity, sexuality
can in fact be a source of wellbeing.
Willy Pasini teaches Psychiatry and Medical Psychology at the University of Milan. He is the author of
numerous best-selling books, published by Mondadori and translated worldwide.
Nello Scavo, LA LISTA DI BERGOLIO
Editrice Missionaria Italiana, October 2013, pp. 192
The people saved by Pope Francesco during the Military Years. Stories never told before.
An investigation conduced in Argentina concerning the life and activities of Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the era
of Junta and of the desaparecidos. Far from being complicit or passive, Bergoglio took high personal risks
and employed a variety of daring tricks to save as many people as he could. Whether they were priest or laymen, Catholics or atheists, he saved them all. When the military years came to an end, the Cardinal of Buenos
Aires asked for forgiveness on behalf of the entire Church and the role it played during the “dirty war”.
Nello Scavo is a journalist born in Catania, he currently lives in Como. He writes about crime and
international terrorism for the Catholic newspaper Avvenire.
Rights sold to: Saint Benedict Press (English world rights), Akadémiai Kiado (Hungary), Carmelite
Publishing House (Czech Republic), Paulinas Editora (Portugal), Wydawnictwo Jednos (Poland), Herder
(Germany), Editions Bayard (France), Ediçoes Loyola (Brazil), Editorial Claretiana (Spain).
Rights with Editrice Missionaria Italiana.
Gianna Schelotto, LE ROSE CHE NON COLSI
Mondadori, April 2014, pp. 204
The psychology of regret.
We all tend to attach extraordinary value to the decisions we did not make. Re-examined through the lens of
regret, missed opportunities can be dangerously seductive and often burden us with more than we can stand.
Gianna Schelotto’s six stories straddle the fine line between fiction and psychology to analyse the subject of
regret and missed opportunities.
Gianna Schelotto is Italy’s most renowned sexologist, specialized in couples therapy and the treatment of
psychosomatic symptoms. She writes for newspapers and magazines. Mondadori has published a number of
successful books of her, many of them translated in Germany, Brazil, Japan, Portugal, Romania and Korea.
Mariano Tomatis, Ferdinando Buscema, L'ARTE DI STUPIRE
Sperling&Kupfer, April 2014, pp. 350
The art of creating magical experiences.
Sooner or later, everyone experiences something that can be described as "magical" (unlikely coincidences,
extraordinary encounters). Many of these events have nothing to do with the paranormal. Such events could
have been crafted by a team of Magic Experience Designers. The two authors, sharing a professional interest
for the Art of Magic, designed an accessible and innovative way to bring their "magical thinking" outside the
traditional formal settings into everyday life, to create "magical experiences" - events meant to trigger
wonder, astonishment and surprise - in non-theatrical contexts.
Mariano Tomatis is a writer, magician and art designer. On the topic of magic he has published Te lo leggo
nella mente (Sperling&Kupfer), La magia dei numeri (Kowalski), La magia della mente (SugarCo), L’arte
della prestidirigiri (Rizzoli). http://www.marianotomatis.it/
Ferdinando Buscema is a magician and a corporate specialist who designs edutainment experiences for
individual and organizational growth. He has performed at the World Famous Magic Castle in Hollywood,
the most exclusive stage for magical entertainment. http://www.ferdinando.biz/
English translation available.
Giovanni Ziccardi, ENTRO 48 ORE
Marsilio, January 2014, pp. 144
How to recover time, job quality, family relationships and friendships: a tale of technological
downshifting.
Eric Clapton, thanking a guest at the Crossroads Guitar Festival, said “He’s a great guy. Every year he replies
to my invitation within 48 hours." In today’s digital world, 48 hours is an eternity. We have less time than
ever, and we devote it largely to technology. We’re constantly connected to our smart phones and tablets, and
silently communicating via social networks. Our new lifestyle has made us neglect the very values that used
to make human beings the most social of all living beings. Without casting aspersions on the world of today,
Ziccardi – who has first-hand experience in disconnecting from technology – teaches us how to reclaim lost
space and time. Our 48 hours.
Giovanni Ziccardi is a professor of legal Information Technology at the University of Milan (Italy). He has
worked in computer crime, freedom rights, hacking and digital dissidence for over 20 years. Marsilio has
published his essay on hacking entitled Hacker - Il richiamo della libertà, and a technothriller entitled
L’ultimo hacker. His official website is www.ziccardi.org
CHILDREN
Luigi Garlando, O' MAÈ
Piemme, March 2014, pp. 129
A story of judo and Camorra.
"The message that this book gets across is one of hope. The names may be fictitious, but their stories are true.
Stories of pain, love and social vindication. Stories that bare the soul of the Scampia neighbourhood of
Naples."
Gianni Maddaloni (founder of the famous Judo club in Naples and engaged in fighting against the Camorra)
Filippo is fourteen years old and his fate is sealed. He lives in Naples, where planning for the future is
pointless. There’s only one option: to join the System. The Camorra. His brother Carmine already belongs to
the Toni Hollywood clan, and works as a sentry for the Boss. But one afternoon, Filippo’s uncle asks him for a
lift to Gianni Maddaloni’s judo club. Filippo thinks the boys kicking each other about in pyjamas look pretty
stupid. But eventually, judo teaches him to see things differently, and soon the lad will be forced to choose
between Toni Hollywood and Maddaloni.
Luigi Garlando is a journalist at the ‘Gazzetta dello Sport’ and a successful writer for many Italian
publishers as Rizzoli, Mondadori and Piemme. His most popular books include: Per questo mi chiamo
Giovanni, Mio papà scrive la guerra (Winner of the Cento 2005 Award). His bestselling series Gol!
(Piemme) sells more than 5,000 copies a week in Italy alone, and is translated worldwide.