luigi bernabo` associates literary agents fiction non fiction fall 2014

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LUIGI BERNABO’
ASSOCIATES
LITERARY
AGENTS
catalogue
FICTION
NON FICTION
FALL 2014
fiction
Fall
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Luigi Bernabò Associates Literary Agents
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THE REVELATION OF THE ITALIAN
SELF-PUBLISHING MARKET
More than 10,000 downloads in the first week!!!
The Touched saga
ELISA S. AMORE
What are you willing to sacrifice when the only person that can save you ...
is the same person that has to kill you?
Told over five books, the story of Evan and Gemma is a magical, adventurous
fight for survival, but, above all, is an intense and overwhelming love story. An
inner journey, in which the protagonist crosses Heaven and Hell to redeem
her life and the lives of those who loves, revealing worlds never discovered
before. Developed from a Norwegian legend, Touched is about to offer a new
vision of Angels in Urban Fantasy, with a plot that doesn’t draw on apocryphal
and religious texts, a plot which thickens and intensifies throughout the saga
to talk about new parallel worlds, where the Angels play a role very different
from the norm.
One of the characteristic elements of the saga is the opposition of another
leading figure to that of the Subterraneans: the Witch, a charmed creature
related to evil ever since its creation, although the line between good and evil
is constantly overturned. The role of the Witch will be further analyzed, especially in the third book, in which the protagonist is forced to come to terms
with her true nature.
Although the Touched saga follows a romantic theme, it is not aimed exclusively at a female audience, as it is full of action, magic, adventure and even
motor racing (a new element in this kind of novel), ruthless fights and new,
mysterious and dark places, as well as love, sacrifice and death. It is aimed
at a target audience that ranges from younger adolescents to a more mature
audience.
In every book, the point of view of the narrator shifts between Evan and
Gemma, enabling the reader to discover the protagonists’ emotions directly
through their thoughts.
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Elisa S. Amore was born in 1984 and
lives in a small village in the heart of
Sicily with her husband, her son and a
pug that sleeps all day and from which
she is inseparable. She was nicknamed
“Bookworm” by her family members.
She loves to write at night, knowing
that stars keep her company, while
the rest of the world sleeps. She likes
to swim, walk through the woods and
daydreaming . She collect books and
animated films, all jealously guarded. La
carezza del destino is her debut novel.
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Touched. La carezza del destino
Touched. The Caress of Fate (vol. #1 of the Touched Saga)
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One look, and Gemma Bloom realizes that her life will never be the same.
She has no idea of who that boy is, yet she can’t stop thinking of him, of his
enigmatic smile and of his eyes, as passionate as the stormy sea.
Evan too is bewitched by Gemma, he feels an immediate yet very strong bond
between them.
It could be the beginning of a perfect love story, but Gemma is consumed by
doubts. There is something dark in Evan, something that scares her. Is this
because, at times, Gemma is the only one who notices the presence of Evan,
while he is invisible to other people?
And why some people were found dead, shortly after being seen with him?
One thing is certain: Gemma knows that her life depends on Evan. It is
indeed so... though not in the way she imagines. The fate of Gemma is sealed,
her time is running out. It is the mission of Evan to accompany her into the
Realm of the Deads. But everything is different this time. This time Evan has
to make a painful choice: he either has to obey orders and kill the woman he
loves so much, or he has to defy the laws of both Heaven and Hell to save her.
A publishing phenomenon even before its publication, La carezza del destino
combines disruptive passions with secrets that can’t be revealed, impossible
decisions and powerful emotions. The result is a love story as intense as the
feelings that bind Evan and Gemma, while Fate impends over them.
Foreign Rights:
Spanish - Oz Editorial
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Unfaithful. L’inganno della notte
Unfaithful. The Deceit of the Night (vol. #2 of the Touched
Saga)
Nord
March 2014
For centuries, Evan James accompanied the souls of the dead into the Underworld and he fulfilled his duty with absolute devotion. Then, one day, he saw
Gemma and everything changed, as he recognized Love, true Love.
Evan would not allow Gemma to die. And he did not hesitate to disobey orders to save her life, risking eternal damnation. Since then, Evan and Gemma
became inseparable and their relationship grew stronger day by day.
But an error breaks the fragile balance. Driven by the desire to share with
Gemma every aspect of his existence, Evan reveals her a dangerous secret...
Both will pay for this mistake as Death comes back to claim Gemma. Terrified, the girl seeks refuge in Evan’s home while he asks for help to the only
people he can trust: Simon, Ginevra and Drake. Thanks to them, he hopes
to find a way to thwart this new threat. Soon, however, he discovers that Fate
can’t be cheated.
Evan and Gemma have to fight a threat that will surprise them right as soon
as they felt safe... The game is risky, with jelousies and secret betrayals…
Once again Evan has to make a difficult decision: what is he willing to give up,
to protect Gemma?
Following the success of La carezza del destino, Elisa S. Amore is back with
a new novel which combines passion, intrigue and suspense; L’inganno della
notte is a love story, strong and multifaceted, magical and surprising.
Foreign Rights:
Spanish - Oz Editorial
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Brokenhearted. Il potere dell’oscurità
Brokenhearted. The Power of Darkness (vol. #3 of the Touched Saga)
As Evan James died in her arms, Gemma has been plunged into an abyss of
grief and guilt. Evan had defied the laws of Fate to save her life and he has
paid dearly for his disobedience. Gemma can not imagine her life without
him. Yet, day by day, the pain gives way to another feeling - a blind, deep rage.
It is as if a dark force grows inside Gemma’s soul to take control of her ...
PRAISES FOR THE TOUCHED SAGA
“An amazing novel, fresh and interesting; anyone should have it in the library.” Io Donna
“Elisa S. Amore is one of the few phenomena of the Italian self-publishing.” Vanity Fair
“Young dreamers of love, in the library there’s a new novel for you.” Marie Claire
“La carezza del destino is the literary event of the year.” Tu Style
“The fantasy-sentimental genre is becoming successful in Italy.
The queen is the twenty-nine Elisa S. Amore.” F Magazine
“Debut with a bang .” La Sicilia
“Elisa S. Amore’s La carezza del destino is her debut novel in the bookstores, but if you write
her name on the web, you will discover a world. Elisa’s talent is clear: it seems to read a classic saga made in the USA.” Pop Up Literature
“An incredible fantasy novel, where love is perfectly mixed with supernatural. It’s a new saga
that already makes readers wait anxiously for the second chapter.
It will be great, no doubt.” Il recensore
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Il sale rosa dell’Himalaya
Himalayan Pink Salt
Bompiani
April 2014
CAMILLA BARESANI
Tough, relentless, corrosive: Il sale rosa dell’Himalaya tells the story of Giada,
a thirty year old living in Milan.
The novel begins on February 13, 2013; it’s raining and the young woman is at
home, she is waiting for a very important, indeed, crucial guest.
Dinner is ready, but Giada - on a whim - decides to go out to buy some Himalayan pink salt.
She wears high heels, she walks talking on the phone, she is in a hurry, she is
going to meet a man who can change her life... Suddenly two strangers come
into the scene: Giada’s life will never be the same. This is the beginning of the
story.
Giada is very ambitious. She is smart and she is clever, yet others are smarter.
Her struggle to be a successful and famous PR becomes Giada’s struggle
against the world.
The conflict is not only against sworn enemies, but against enemies that are
hidden everywhere, even where people least expect them.
There is no love, no eroticism, no seduction in this novel. There are betrayal,
violence and oppression. Described with a detached and ironical tone by
Camilla Baresani, Il sale rosa dell’Himalaya has a strong narrative tension, till
the beautiful and surprising, unexpected end.
Camilla Baresani is a writer and
journalist for “Sette”, the weekly
magazine published by “Il Corriere
della Sera”, and for the newspaper “Il
Sole 24 Ore”.
Other novels by the author:
Il plagio (Bompiani, 2000);
Sbadatamente ho fatto l’amore (Bompiani,
2002);
Un’estate fa (Bompiani, 2010).
Non fiction:
Il piacere tra le righe (Bompiani, 2003);
L’imperfezione dell’amore (Bompiani, 2005);
TIC – Tipi Italiani Contemporanei
(Bompiani, 2006) with Renato
Mannheimer;
La cena delle meraviglie (Feltrinelli, 2007)
with Allan Bay.
**www.camillabaresani.com**
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THE LONG AWAITED SEQUEL TO
IL TRIBUNALE DELLE ANIME
Il cacciatore del buio
The Hunter of the Dark
Longanesi
September 2014
DONATO CARRISI
This novel is not only a journey into the secrets of Rome, the most famous and
yet most mysterious, unknown city in the world.
It’s not just a plunge into the most hidden and unexplored elements of our
minds.
This novel is about a man who has nothing - no identity, no memory, no love
nor hatred – nothing but his talent. And the secret talent of Marcus is to find
and identify anomalies and feel the presence of Evil.
This novel is about a woman who is trying to start everything over. Sandra
works too on the crime scenes, but, unlike Marcus, she has not to be undercover, she does not need to hide herself; Sandra is a photo-detector of the police.
Her talent is to photograph the void, the empityness and to make it visible.
This is the novel of a killing spree that responds to a design, awful and yet
seductive, while Rome is in the background, evocative and extraordinary.
Donato Carrisi was born in 1973 in
Martina Franca and lives in Rome.
He studied Law, majoring in Criminology and Behavioral Science. He then
become a screenwriter for television
series and cinema. He contributes to Il
Corriere della Sera, the leading Italian
newspaper, and he is the author of the
international bestsellers Il suggeritore, Il
tribunale delle anime, La donna dei fiori
di carta, e L’ipotesi del male, all published
by Longanesi.
He has authored and hosted the prime
time TV program, Il sesto senso, on Rai
Tre, a major national channel.
**www.donatocarrisi.it**
Foreign Rights:
French - Calmann Lévy
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WINNER OF THE
PREMIO SCERBANENCO 2013!!!
“Shiveringly intelligent”
The Times
L’ipotesi del male
The Hypothesis of Evil
Longanesi
April 2013
DONATO CARRISI
“Have you ever desired to disappear?”
It is a feeling that everyone, sooner or later, has experienced: the desire to
disappear. To escape from it all. To leave each and every thing behind.
But for some people it is not just a momentary lapse. It becomes an obsession,
that devours and swallows them. These people disappear into the darkness.
No one knows why or how. And soon almost everybody forget them.
But not Mila Vasquez, for she is always surrounded by their looks. Every time
she enters in the missing persons office - The Limbo - hundreds of eyes keep
staring at her from the photos that cover the walls of the Room of Lost Steps.
Unable to forget people vanished into thin air, she brings the signs of darkness
on her skin too, like red flowers rooted in her soul.
Maybe that’s why Mila is the best in what she does: to hunt those lost souls,
forgotten by the rest of the world.
But what if some of those disappeared suddenly come back with obscure
intentions?
Mila realizes that, to stop this army of shadows, clues are useless and investigations simply not enough.
She must give the darkness a shape, and a ratio, to build a solid and convincing hypothesis... The Hypothesis of Evil.
Foreign Rights:
Chinese (complex) - Spring
German - Piper
Greek - Oceanida
Korean - Sigongsa
Macedonian - Matica
Polish - Albatros
Portuguese - Porto
Serbian - Alnari
Spanish - Planeta
UK & BC - Little, Brown & Co.
Vietnamese - Women’s Publishing House
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Arrigoni e l’omicidio di via Vitruvio
Arrigoni and the Murder in Via Vitruvio
DARIO CRAPANZANO
Milan, March 1953: Flavio Villareale, fifty, actor, director and owner of the
Imperial Theatre, an elegant Art Nouveau building nearby the Central Railway
Station, is found dead in his apartment in via Vitruvio, a short walk from the
theater.
Umberto Calcaterra, partner of Flavio and administrator of the theater, found
the corpse. The medical examiner discovers the unmistakable signs of a death
by suffocation: Flavio Villareale was killed.
Commissario Arrigoni is summoned to the crime scene on the way back from
the never ending celebration of the marriage of his deputy, Salvatore Mastrantonio, aged 54, not very smart and newly married. As Mastrantonio goes to
the honeymoon, Arrigoni is assisted by the brilliant inspector Giovine.
The interrogations highlight the personality of the victim, a brilliant artist, yet
a bad person: Flavio Villareale was always horny and devoted to sadomasochistic practices; he did not hesitate to exploit his charm and his position to
seduce every beautiful woman he met.
And this is only the beginning. Villareale’s past is also full of shadows: the victim was a devoted to Mussolini, and rumors say he had denounced opponents
of the Fascist regime to Ovra, the Fascist secret police, even without proofs, to
gain advantage out of it.
To solve the mystery, Arrigoni has to face young and beautiful actresses,
octogenarian prompters and Mussolini’s supporters...
After the extraordinary success of the first four novels, Commissario Mario
Arrigoni is back, with the places and almost forgotten, still magical atmosphere of the 50s, perfectly described by Dario Crapanzano, one of the most
original voices of the noir genre.
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Mondadori
August 2014
Dario Crapanzano was born in Milan,
he graduated in Law but he studied and
graduated also from the Accademia di Arte
Drammatica directed by Esperia Sperani.
He worked successfully in the advertising.
In 2011, aged seventy, Crapanzano debuted
with his first novel Il giallo di via Tadino
(Fratelli Frilli Editori), which was reprinted
several times in few months. He then published three more novels featuring Commissario Mario Arrigoni: Crapanzano is now
considered a master of the noir genre.
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Arrivano i pagliacci
Here come the Clowns
Mondadori
September 2014
(Bompiani 2003)
CHIARA GAMBERALE
Allegra Lunare is twenty, the age when everything begins: instead, everything
ends for her, and she has to sum up the courage to start everything over.
Allegra begins to write letters: she writes not to be afraid, to save her childhood, to remember the people and the things that made her world until that
moment.
She writes to the new tenants of the house where she lived with her bizarre
family; Allegra is inspired by the objects she leaves behind and by the few she
brings with her.
Each object tells a story: that of his father, a revolutionary university student,
and that of her mother, a young American model; that of the birth of her
brother Giuliano, a boy affected by the Down’s syndrome. The magical love
story between Adriana and Matilde; the fabulous meeting with Zuellen, a
woman who seeks love desperately, who has the power to turn everything into
something else.
And Allegra will share with others the secret lesson she has learned from the
theater and the circus, a most important secret: that after the performace of
the acrobats, the trapeze, when everyone hold his breath and happiness seems
to vanish every second – , then Clowns always arrive.
Allegra’s style and rhythm are as fast as the breath of youth, when people are
in a hurry to understand: surprising, unexpected, witty, naïve, sharp….
Chiara is really a fearless writer: she is capable to create characters that ask
questions that concern everybody.
Allegra Lunare asks questions about us, questions that make readers look
beyond the surface:
Questions that are risky, questions that are tough; yet without danger, without
risk, there is no life and there would be no literature.
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Chiara Gamberale was born in
1977. She holds a degree in Film
History from the University of
Bologna.
She writes and runs broadcasts for the
national TV and Radio networks (Rai Tre
and Radio Due); she writes in “La Stampa”,
“Vanity Fair” and runs a popular blog on
the website of “Il Corriere della Sera”.
By the same author:
Una vita sottile (Marsilio, 1999);
Color lucciola (Marsilio, 2001);
La zona cieca (Bompiani, 2008);
Una passione sinistra (Bompiani, 2009
- Film Rights: Bianca Film);
Le luci nelle case degli altri (Mondadori,
2010);
L’amore quando c’era (Mondadori, 2011);
Quattro etti d’amore, grazie (Mondadori,
2013);
Per dieci minuti (Feltrinelli, 2013).
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SELEZIONE BANCARELLA 2014 AWARD!!!
Per dieci minuti
For Ten Minutes
Feltrinelli
November 2013
CHIARA GAMBERALE
“Would you like to play a game?”
“Which one, Doctor?”
“For a month, as from now, for ten minutes a day, do something that you have
never done before. Anything.”
“What does it mean?”
“Just do something, whatever you want. But you have never done.”
“And then, Doctor, what happens in the end? Will I be normal again?”
“We’ll talk about this in a month, Chiara. In the meanwhile, play the game,
and please…No tricks.”
Ten minutes.
Ten minutes a day. Every day. For a month.
Ten minutes for you. To do a new thing, a thing you’ve never done before.
Ten minutes when your life is ruined and all you had no longer exists.
Ten minutes to resist the temptation to contemplate the ruins, instead of
looking forward.
Ten minutes to be back on your feet when you’re lost, when you feel lost.
Then you paint your nails pink fuchsia.
You learn to play violin.
You prepare pancakes with Nutella, you the woman who does not even know
how to cook spaghetti.
You join a hip hop class. You walk backwards in the streets. You grow lettuce
and pepper.
You ask your mother to talk about her.
You give your mobile phone to a passer-by saying: “Choose a number from
the list and send a text I LOVE YOU”.
And slowly, time ceases to be your enemy, and it becomes an ally.
You give up your patterns .
The world seems new, because you are new.
And, even though you do not realize it, you begin to live again.
Per dieci minuti inspired a TV format broadcasted by Laeffe TV.
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Foreign Rights:
French - Michel Lafon
German - Berlin Verlag
Hebrew - Keter
Lithuanian - Alma Littera
Polish - JK
Spanish (World) - Seix Barral
Turkish - Pegasus
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Il cuore oscuro di Firenze
The Dark Heart of Florence
Rizzoli
June 2013
MICHELE GIUTTARI
Revenge, frenzy of passion. In his dark and fetid prison cell, the serial killer
Daniele de Robertis can only imagine what his life would be outside, in the
free world.
He still has too many unsettled accounts with people. His twin brother
Leonardo was killed. He feels a blind hatred for Sir George Holley. He feels a
strong sexual appetite that kindles his dreams during the nights.
The dream comes true when Daniele de Robertis escapes from prison, vanishing into thin air.
Commissario Ferrara begins to live his worst nightmare when a famous
lawyer and his wife are murdered at Bellavista, a small, beautiful village in the
Tuscan countryside.
As policemen carry out the inspection on the crime scene, they find nine
horrible pictures. Nine women were slaughterd. Evil is back, and it seems
unstoppable.
The investigation will force Ferrara to inquire into the secrets of famous and
untouchable people, in a spiral of obsession and violence. A mysterious Black
Rose seems to be the source of everything, its influence spreads beyond the
Italian boundaries.
Michele Giuttari became a lawyer
in 1977. From 1995 until May 2003 he
was the Chief of the Squadra Mobile
in Florence. He investigated important
matters, e.g. the Chinese mafia,
international money laundering, as
well as the murders committed by
the Monster of Florence.
Michele Giuttari is back with a novel, written with the surgical precision of
someone who has personally experienced what he tells and with the pace of a
great storyteller, that forces the reader to face his own ghosts and fears.
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Tutta la luce del mondo
All the Light in the World
Bompiani
March 2014
ALDO NOVE
In an era “full of wonder”, the Middle Ages, an era of battles, of secrets, when
the lands were for adventure and travel, and loves and fears were strong, was
born a man, Giovanni di Bernardone, then known as Francesco, the man
from Assisi. He saw the light and beauty of Jesus, his Master, not only in every
person’s face but also in the animals, in the sun, the moon, the earth.
That’s S. Francis, the “poor man” par excellence, the “God’s Fool”.
In this new novel Aldo Nove tells the story of S. Francis lighlty and with a sincere voice; the point of view is that of Francis’s nephew, Picard, a boy initally
frightened by the radical choices made by his uncle, then gradually imbued
with admiration for Francis. Picard is aware that he cannot be like him, he is
not able to follow his journey.
Aldo Nove is a poet, a novelist and a
playwriter. He was born in Viggiù in 1967.
Woobinda, his debut novel, was published
in 1995 by Castelvecchi. He also wrote a
collection of poems A schemi di costellazioni and another novel La vita oscena (both
published by Einaudi in 2010).
Bompiani published Zero e il Robot (2008)
and Giancarlo Bigazzi. Il geniaccio della
canzone italiana (2012).
In the background, Aldo Nove portrays the strong emotions and upheavals of
an era that was not quite as dark as sometimes people believed.
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“A great novel of our time, at last.”
Goffredo Fofi
“When we talk about stories,
Luca Rastello is my favorite author.”
Enrico Deaglio
I buoni
The Good People
Chiarelettere
March 2014
LUCA RASTELLO
The good people struggle to save the world. Their crusades are called ‘projects’,
their god is the Law. Their leader is Don Silvano. He is the holy man with the
thread-bare sweater, his eyes convey suffering as he preaches on the road and
in the palace; he is close both to the pariahs and to the politicians, to rock
stars, and to the convicts and the judges.
Aza meets Don Silvano in his temple; she comes from the underworld, from
the slums; she is slender and strong, she flees a life of violence and she is
ambitious.
The Almighty Silvano grants her a new language, a house, a career, even a love
life. He give Aza Life.
Then it does not matter if the temple is made of plasterboard, if the words of
threats are spoken with the same tone as those of peace. Aza will keep hold of
the rope that binds her to Don Silvano until her hands hurt, even when the
world around her collapse.
Luca Rastello wrote a lucid and fierce novel, focusing on things that are right
under our eyes but we do not want to see, because of negligence or out of self
defence.
Yet, we are eventually caught: we recognize our need to live with the evil while
we pretend to fight it, we see our need to accept a world that crushes us, while
we live in it under anesthesia.
Luca Rastello has traveled and worked
in the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central
Asia, Africa and South America: he has
worked for the Gruppo Abele and directed
“Narcomafie”, “ L’Indice” and Osservatoriobalcani.org. He wrote La guerra in
casa (Einaudi, 1998), Piove all’insù (2006),
Undici buone ragioni per una pausa (2009),
both published by Bollati Boringhieri, La
frontiera addosso (Laterza, 2010). Chiarelettere published Io sono il mercato (2010)
and Binario morto (2013, with Andrea De
Benedetti). His books have been sold in
Spain, Norway, United States, Poland and
Great Britain.
Foreign Rights:
French - La Table Ronde
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“Alessandra Appiano reveals a knowledge of the
female nature that is never fleeting nor superficial.”
Il Corriere della Sera
“(She) accurately digs in the heart’s most obscure
corners with irony, affection and sensibility.”
Il Gazzettino
Solo un uomo
Just a Man
Garzanti
September 2013
ALESSANDRA APPIANO
“I thought I knew love, but there is no rule in love, you have to learn everything at your own cost.”
The dawn light enters the windows. Alice has not slept that night, she red the
two letters lying in front of her. Two envelopes, one red and one white, are the
only things that her best friend, Camilla, left her before vanishing into thin air.
Camilla, a show girl and a successful writer, has always been the bulwork of
Alice, her role model, from the day they met on the shoreline of a beach in
Liguria. They were teenagers.
Since then they shared everything - secrets, laughters and tears.
Alice is now frightened. She is a single mother who never had the courage
to live fully and discover what love is. She feels lonely, almost lost without
Camilla.
But her friend has not left her completely alone; the letters contain hints, clues
that reveal the truth about Camilla’s disappearance. To understand these clues,
Alice has to go back in time, she has to think about the relations and affairs
that Camilla had.
Camilla’s lovers will tell Alice who Camilla really was.
Camilla last lover, perhaps, can reveal the truth. And Alice might receive the
greatest gift that a friend can give: two wings to fly to freedom.
Alessandra Appiano became famous with
his first book, the succesful novel Amiche
di salvataggio (winner of Premio Bancarella 2003); she has written and published
other books such as Domani ti perdono,
Scegli me, Le vie delle signore sono infinite,
Le belle e le bestie, published in France,
Germany, Portugal, Russia, Poland, Lithuania and Spain. She is the author of many
television programs, contributes to various
newspapers and she runs the column
Amiche di salvataggio at “Donna Moderna”
magazine.
She also the author of Il cerchio degli amori
sospesi, published by Garzanti.
After the success of Il cerchio degli amori sospesi, Alessandra Appiano gives
us a powerful new novel. Solo un uomo is an intense journey into the heart of
every woman, a poignant story of a friendship and how the discovery of true
love give us true freedom.
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**www.alessandraappiano.it**
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La donna dei fiori di carta
The Woman of the Paper Flowers
Longanesi
April 2012
DONATO CARRISI
Monte Fumo – Mount Smoke – is a cathedral of ice and the theater of a
decisive battle. However, the echo of the bombing does not reach the cave
where two men meet. One is a prisoner who is condemned to be shot the
following morning if he refuses to reveal his identity and rank. The other man
is a doctor who has only one night to persuade his enemy to talk and avoid
his massacre. But he does not know that the answers he will receive is a story
which is more than he has asked or hoped for. From that moment on his life
will change. The two men are connected, even though they should be enemies.
Both are hung by a thread as thin as the wisp of smoke of their cigarettes.
Their lives depend on the answers to three questions: Who is the prisoner?
Who is Guzman? Who was the man who smoked on the Titanic?
This novel tells the story of a legendary truth, of an unusual hero and his
obsession. A story that has crossed time and fooled death and that is
destined to the heart of a mysterious woman…
Donato Carrisi was born in 1973 in
Martina Franca and lives in Rome. After
studying Law, he specialized in Criminology and Behavioral Science and become
a writer for cinema and television series.
He regularly writes for “Il Corriere della
Sera” and is the author of the international bestsellers novels Il suggeritore,
Il tribunale delle anime and L’ipotesi del
male, all published in Italy by Longanesi.
Foreign Rights:
Polish - Albatros
A BRIEF HISTORY OF A GREAT SUCCESS
January 2009 - Introducing Il suggeritore (The Whisperer), the Italian debut novel by Donato Carrisi that changes
the rules established by the great international masters.
Fall 2009 - After winning the Premio Bancarella and being top ranked for more than 30 weeks, Il suggeritore becomes a publishing phenomenon all over the world: it is published in 19 countries, being top ranked for several weeks
in France, Germany, Spain and England.
2010 / 2011 - Carrisi wins the Prix Polar and the Prix Livre de Poche. Meanwhile, the novel is selling over 1 million
copies all around the world.
April 2013 - The new novel by Donato Carrisi, L’ipotesi del male, marks the great return of Mila Vasquez, the character from Il suggeritore who thrilled readers from the whole world.
December 2013 - L’ipostesi del male wins the prestigious Premio Giorgio Scerbanenco - La Stampa.
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“A thriller of complex but perfect structure.”
Il Fatto Quotidiano
“Carrisi writes beautifully… A powerful psychological
drama.” Kirkus Reviews (starred)
“Fascinating. Carrisi takes an unsparing look at the nature of evil and guilt.” Publishers Weekly
“[A] multilayered thriller [with] a secret sect worthy of a
Dan Brown novel.” Booklist
Il tribunale delle anime
The Lost Girls of Rome
Longanesi
September 2011
DONATO CARRISI
Marcus, a darkness-hunter, and Clemente, his guide, are investigating the disappearance of a young woman in Rome. A series of anomalies makes it a case
worth Marcus’ attention, as he is trained to recognise them and dig out the
hidden sides of evil. But the scar on his forehead is there to remind him about
the gunshot that made him lose his memory a few months earlier.
In the meanwhile, Sandra, a photo-detector whose skill is to work on the
details out of place, is hunted by the thought that her husband, David, lied to
her before dying in a suspicious accident.
While following different paths, Sandra and Marcus meet each other and
uncover a terrible reality hidden within the recesses of Rome: somebody is
putting in contact the families of the victims of unsolved cases with the still
unpunished culpable. And when justice is no longer a choice, there is only a
solution left - the choice falls between forgiveness or revenge.
Il tribunale delle anime relies on historical facts. The Penitenzieria Apostolica,
owned by the Vatican, is the vastest and most updated criminal archive of the
world. Founded in the XII century A.D. to sell plenary indulgences, it became
the place where the confessions of mortal sins are recorded. The sins transcribed by the priests are sent in a sealed letter to the Tribunal of Souls, a commission of prelates (Penitenzieri) who will judge whether to absolve the culpable
or not. While the transcriptions of the confessions were initially burnt after
the judgement, the Penitenzieri decided to keep them in a secret archive – the
only one in the world keeping a record of Evil.
Penitenzieri are criminologists who study the Evil. They follow a case, they are
allowed to access only a small portion of the archive, in order to prevent them
from having the whole picture of the event, as nobody would bear the heaviness of getting to know the Evil. They help the police with the investigation
whenever a case presents some anomalies. They follow a scientific method,
and are not interested in the existence of the Devil but in the manifestation of
Evil in the history of humanity – being men the only masters and responsibles
of their actions.
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Foreign Rights:
Brazilian - Record
Chinese (complex)- Spring
Danish - Art People
German - Piper
Greek - Oceanida
Dutch - Wereldbibliotheek
Japanese - Hayakawa
Korean - Sigongsa
Macedonian - Matica
Polish - Albatros
Portuguese - Porto
Serbian - Alnari
Slovak - Slovart
Spanish - Planeta
Turkish - Pegasus
US & Canada - Mulholland Books
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“Saturday on the beach with a great book--paradise. Mine was The
Whisperer by Donato Carisi--brilliant and VERY creepy serial-killer
mystery.”
Ken Follett on Twitter
“The Whisperer is one hell of a ride. This story screams high tension,
high stakes and high velocity. Donato Carrisi has done a superb job with
this thriller.”
Michael Connelly
“Donato Carrisi has a unique gift for blending fascinating forensic detail, mind-bending plot twists, and empathetic characters into a seamless, powerful narrative. The Whisperer intrigues, informs, and haunts
simultaneously, a novel that will linger in the mind long after you’ve
finished.”
Michael Koryta
Il suggeritore
The Whisperer
PREMIO BANCARELLA 2009
PRIX POLAR 2010
DONATO CARRISI
A breathtaking novel that reminds of movies such as Seven, The Sixth Sense,
The Silence of the Lambs - going well beyond them and introducing a new
figure in crime fiction: the subliminal killer.
Six buried arms. Six vanished little girls. It is from this appalling discovery
that Captain Roche, Goran Gavila (an internationally well-known
criminologist) and Mila Vasquez (an expert in vanished children cases) start
to investigate. The culpable seems to be a sadistic serial killer who makes the
team find the missing girls’ corpses one by one. Each corpse carries a message
and leads to ‘normal’ men, wolves disguised as lambs. Until Mila’s revelation:
the team is facing a ‘subliminal killer’, somebody who does not physically
commit the crime but induces other people to kill on his behalf - and who is
thus not chargeable with murder nor liable of punishment.
Some real-life disturbing cases reveal the existence of subliminal killers (or
whisperer/prompter, as psychiatrists define them) - whose treatment, both
from a scientific and legal side, is still under debate. In 1975 Roger Blest kills
six women in Akron (Ohio). When he is arrested, he tells the investigators
that the killings had been ‘prompted’ by a certain Benjamin Gorka. In 1984 in
New Zealand an illiterate worker named Rolf Springer murders four women
and subsequently tells the police that he has acted upon the ‘advice’ of a certain Benjamin Gorka. 2006, Japan. A man named Kobashi convinces eighteen
people met on a chat-line and scattered all around the world to commit
suicide on Valentine’s day. Different in age, sex, economic condition and social
position, they were normal men and women, with no apparent problems.
Finally, Charles Manson’s case is probably the most sensational and famous
one. In order to prosecute him, a juridical artifice was used, and he was given
several life sentences instead than being condemned to death.
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January 2009
PRIX LIVRE DE POCHE 2011
200,000 copies sold in 2 weeks!
Foreign Rights:
Brazilian - Record
Bulgarian - Bard
Chinese (complex) - Spring
Chinese (simplifie) - Citic
Danish - Art People
French - Calmann-Levy
German - Piper
Greek - Oceanida
Hungarian - Alexandra
Israeli - Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir
Japanese - Hayakawa
Korean - Sigongsa
Polish - Albatros
Portuguese - Porto
Russian - Centrepolygraph
Serbian - Alnari
Slovak - Slovart
Spanish - Planeta
Turkish - Pegasus
Vietnamese - Women’s Publishing House
US & Canada- Mulholland Books
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Il panico quotidiano
The Daily Panic
Einaudi
April 2013
CHRISTIAN FRASCELLA
During a night shift, Christian is suddenly struck by fear. It is as if a never ending glacial thrill is leaking from his head - which, out of the blue, leaves place
to an overwhelming warmth, so hot that he can barely breath.
From that moment on Christian has to deal with panic attacks while his life
gets in pieces - from his relationship with Lucia to his job and friendships.
The casual encounter with an old man and with a psychiatrist will help him to
navigate across that river of sorrow, notwithstanding the pain arisen by hidden
memories.
After several novels about the emotions of adolescence, Christian Frascella comes back with a novel that shows the author’s maturity to face his own ghosts
and evoke the readers’ ones. What Frascella creates is a brave and moving
seance.
There are things that can be written (and in such a powerful way) only if you
have experienced them.
To read this book is such a powerful experience. It is impossible to put it
down, so strong are its words - innovative, powerful, vibrant. It is as if Christian Frascella threw away his previous style to jump inside his own fears and
find the strength and energy to face it. Or, simply, to learn how to live and
tremble at the same time.
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Christian Frascella was born and
lives in Turin.
He is the author of Mia sorella è una foca
monaca (Fazi, 2009), Sette piccoli sospetti
(Fazi, 2010), La sfuriata di Bet (Einaudi,
2011).
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Quattro etti d’amore, grazie
Four Hectograms of Love, Please
CHIARA GAMBERALE
Two women, two worlds apart, two different dreams, but the same supermarket…
Almost everyday Erica and Tea meet each other in a small supermarket. Erica
is 33. She works in a bank, has a devoted husband and a dazed mother, a
Facebook group of old classmates and two growing up children. Tea Fidelibus
is the leading actress of the cult TV-serie “Head or Heart”. She has a complex
past, a lumbering father, an amazing career, a fascinating but manipulating
husband. Erica buys groceries for her whole family, while Tea limits herself to
a couple of vases of fat-free yogurt and sushi. Erica stares at Tea’s trolley with
envy, dreaming the freedom of being a woman without children, the lightness
of such a perfect body, and the passion of a forbidden love. She would never
imagine to be an ideal for her own ideal. Tea doesn’t even know Erica’s name,
but she nicknamed her Mrs Cunningham. In her, Tea sees the peace she is
longing for, and the realisation of a life as a wife and mother. In an exhilarating series of misunderstandings, Erica and Tea spy on each other, grasping at
any detail that means happiness to themselves and that underlines their own
pain. It becomes a way to face their own choices without confusing them with
the destiny.
Which in the end, will hit both of them anyway...
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Mondadori
March 2013
Chiara Gamberale was born in
1977. She holds a degree in Film
History from the University of
Bologna.
She writes and runs broadcasts for the
national TV and Radio networks (Rai Tre
and Radio Due); she writes in “La Stampa”,
“Vanity Fair” and runs a popular blog on
the website of “Il Corriere della Sera”.
By the same author:
Una vita sottile (Marsilio, 1999);
Color lucciola (Marsilio, 2001);
Arrivano i pagliacci (Bompiani, 2003 Mondadori 2014);
La zona cieca (Bompiani, 2008);
Una passione sinistra (Bompiani, 2009
- Film Rights: Bianca Film);
Le luci nelle case degli altri (Mondadori,
2010);
L’amore quando c’era (Mondadori, 2011);
Per dieci minuti (Feltrinelli, 2013).
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Le luci nelle case degli altri
The Lights from Other People’s Houses
CHIARA GAMBERALE
Mondadori
October 2010
Maria, the communal administrator of an apparently normal building, dies
in a car accident. She leaves a daughter, Mandorla (literally “Almond”), a six
years old girl whose future turns out to be as strange as her name is: a letter
her mother left before dying reveals that her real father lives on one of the five
floors of the building. All the men in the building are therefore suspected,
and one of them is expected to be admitting the truth. However, since none
accepts to undergo the DNA test, the five families decide to grow up the little
girl together. Through Mandorla’s sometimes happy, sometimes sweetly desperate eyes, we turn on the lights (and thus see the shelters) in the apartments of
the building – apartments where the reader will find his place as well.
We will thus investigate on the reasons of the solitude of Tina Polidoro; we
will step into the desolate bedroom of Caterina and Samuele Grò; we will
follow Paolo and Michelangelo to the gay pride; we will be overwhelmed by
the incommunicability in the tormented relationship between Lidia and Lorenzo; we will sit at the Barilla family’s table, so stubbornly traditional. While
Mandorla grows up, falls in love, searches for her father and her true self, we
get through astonishing revelations and uncomfortable truths. While reading,
we will all remember that, before being wives, husbands, mothers and fathers,
we are - above all - persons. And we will all find out that ‘family’ constitutes
an indefinable alchemy: the ones who’ve got one end up destroying it; the ones
who don’t have it dream of it as the only possible means of happiness.
Chiara Gamberale builds up a novel where traditional archetypes mix with
contemporary dramas, where truth and lie interchange, and gives birth to an
original and unforgettable voice that leads us to a surprising ending.
Foreign Rights:
Brazilian - Larousse do Brasil
Catalan - Edicions 62
Chinese (complex) - Business Weekly
Greek - Melani
Israeli - Keter
Polish - Stanislawa
Portuguese - Porto
Spanish - Seix Barral
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Gli anni della peste
The Years of the Plague
Rizzoli
April 2013
FABRIZIO GATTI
An undercover journalist who wears the gas workers suit to report the inside
world of a drug traffickers gang.
A ‘Ndrangheta killer that, first time with a gun, does not have the courage to
kill.
They watch each other. They study each other. They meet each other.
Two parallel lives, a ruthless journey.
Rocco, twenty years, the killer who can’t kill, ends up in jail. With a single obsession: to avenge the death of Luca, his boss - and almost a brother - killed by
the Clan. The need for revenge, however, turns into a desire of justice, so deep
to convince him to testify against ‘Ndrangheta in the next “Maxi Trial”.
In exchange, the State will offer him protection and the opportunity to rebuild
his life. But one month before the hearing, on a pretense, the protection
program is removed, and Rocco becomes the first repentant abandoned from
the State.
The explanation comes directly from that so-hated reporter, collected from
the confidences of a police officer who, only a few hours after Cosa Nostra’s
bombs hit Milan and Rome, was talking about a underway negotiation between the State and Mafia bosses.
Fabrizio Gatti (Milan, 1966) works for the
Italian weekly “L’Espresso” as
a correspondent. Some of his reports
have been publisehd world-wide.
By the same author:
Vicky che voleva andare a scuola
(Fabbri, 2003);
Bilal (Rizzoli, 2007);
L’Eco della frottola (Rizzoli, 2010).
Fabrizio Gatti shows us the Mafia next door. That which hides itself in the
neighborhoods, in the public offices. That which we all touch closely everyday.
That which condemned Italy to become what it is.
That ballast we must set ourselves free of, if we want to return to hope.
Foreign Rights:
French - Liana Levi
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MICHELE GIUTTARI
I sogni cattivi di firenze / The Evil Dreams of Florence
(published as The Dark Heart of Florence in the UK)
Rizzoli
June 2012
Foreign Rights:
English (World) - Little, Brown & Co.
Le rose nere di Firenze
The Black Rose of Florence
Rizzoli
October 2010
Foreign Rights:
German - Lubbe
La donna della ‘Ndrangheta
The Woman of the ‘Ndrangheta
Rizzoli
June 2009
Foreign Rights:
German - Lubbe
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Michele Giuttari became a lawyer
in 1977. From 1995 till May 2003 he
was the Chief of the Squadra Mobile
in Florence. He investigated important
matters, e.g. the Chinese mafia,
international money laundering, as
well as the murders committed by
the Monster of Florence.
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Il basilisco
The Death of a Mafia Don
Rizzoli
October 2007
Foreign Rights:
German - Lubbe
UK and BC - Little, Brown & Co.
La loggia degli innocenti
A Death in Tuscany
Rizzoli
April 2005
Foreign Rights:
Dutch - De Boekerij
German - Lubbe
Greek - Diigisi
French - Albin Michel
Maltese - Publ. Enterprises Group
Polish - Zysk
Spanish - Random House
Swedish - Norstedts
Scarabeo
A Florentine Death
Rizzoli
Janaury 2004
Foreign Rights:
Dutch - De Boekerij
German - Lubbe
Greek - Diigisi
French - Albin Michel
Polish - Stanislawa
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Portoguese - Presenca
Spanish - Random House
Swedish - Norstedts
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La prigioniera del silenzio
The Prisoner of Silence
Rizzoli
April 2013
VALERIA MONTALDI
Venice, 1327. Giulia Bondimier, sole heir of an illustrious Venetian patrician
family is passionately, overwhelmingly and truly in love. But it is also an
impossible love.
Forbidden by the customs and traditions of the time, her relationship with the
young Jew Samuel Macalia has a tragic consequence: an unexpected pregnancy. Disgraced, Giulia has no choice but to change her life and to abandon the
fruit of her guilt.
Nicoleta has a parallel fate. The daughter of a humble carpenter and victim of
a rape, she is forced to forgo the creature she’s carrying in her womb. She flees
to the mainland where she finds a job that can give her back her dignity and
self respect.
Giulia, forced to monastic life against her will, remains in the city where she is
born: Venice is a prison for her, yet it is the only place that allows her to stay
close to those people she does not want to lose.
Twenty years later, Giulia will be called to make some difficult and courageous
choices. Even though the milieu she belongs to is ruled by men, she will be
able to prove that none and nothing can break the ancestral bond bewteen a
woman and her children.
Valeria Montaldi, journalist and writer,
lives and works in Milan. He made his
debut with Il mercante di lana (Piemme,
2001 - BUR, 2011), which has been followed by Il signore del falco (Piemme, 2003)
and Il monaco inglese (Rizzoli, 2006),
both finalists for the Premio Bancarella, Il
manoscrito dell’imperatore (Rizzoli, 2008)
and La ribelle (Rizzoli, 2011).
In the folds of History, in an opulent Venice, on the threshold of the worst
epidemic plague ever known in Europe, Valeria Montaldi gives us a sweet and
powerful story, that explains what does it mean to be a woman and a mother.
Foreign Rights:
French - Flammarion
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WINNER OF THE PRIX
FULBERT DE CHARTRES
2014!!!
La ribelle
The Rebel
Rizzoli
June 2011
VALERIA MONTALDI
1254: Caterina da Colleaperto has devoted her life to medicine; thanks to her
master and lover Rolando Lanfranchi, Caterina begins to practice in the most
important hospital in Paris where she treats several aristocratic clients.
However, she has to deal with her clients’ lack of trust and with the arrogance
of her male collegues, that prevent her from being a surgeon.
As she finds herself pregnant, Caterina discovers that Rolando had hidden her
his marriage with a noble woman from Milan. Neglected and unloved, Caterina runs away from Paris. The police is looking for her as she is charged of
dissecting a corpse. Rolando, the culprit, had mislead the police.
Caterina goes to Milan where she meets Matthew, the English Monk. In the
meanwhile local artisans and tailors discover wonderful fabrics, providing the
backdrop of the rise of the fashion industry.
Caterina is a rebel, free, independent woman, ahead of her own time. She is
determined to be a doctor, yet medicine is a difficult profession, forbidden to
women. She is blackmailed, humilated. She pretends to be tough to mask her
frailty, yet Caterina risks to lose her self-esteem and self confidence as
hardship and difficulties seem to ovecome her. But her love for medicine will
save her.
As many women living nowadays, Caterina is brave, the master of her own
life; she does not lessen herself, no matter what.
Foreign Rights:
Brazilian - Record
French - Flammarion
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BEYOND THE BONFIRE OF BERLIN
“A prose of great clarity, never a failure”
La Stampa
I miei vent’anni
In My Twenties
Salani
March 2013
HELGA SCHNEIDER
In the postwar years young Helga Schneider is searching for her place in the
world. She has left her father’s house and travels Europe - Salzburg, Vienna,
Paris and Italy - led by one certainty: the future will be much better than the
past.
Love, betrayal, disappointment, enthusiasm, hard work and passion for
writing, mingle and entwine in this memoir; Helga Schneider introduces us to
her life, letting herself go with the narration, thrilled for the first time.
Helga Schneider was born in Poland
and then lived in Berlin (which she
left at the age of nine, immediatly
after the fall of Hitler), in Austria,
and became an Italian citizen by
marriage. Since 1963, she has been
living in Italy and writing for various
newspapers and magazines.
Her most acclaimed works, Il rogo di
Berlino (Adelphi, 1995) and Lasciami
andare, madre (Adelphi, 2001) are sold
internationally.
Other titles by the author:
Porta di Brandeburgo (Rizzoli, 1997);
Il piccolo Adolf non aveva le ciglia
(Rizzoli, 1998);
L’usignolo dei Linke (Adelphi, 2004);
Io, piccola ospite del Fuhrer (Einaudi,
2006);
Heike riprende a respirare (Salani, 2008);
La baracca dei tristi piaceri (Salani, 2010).
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Lasciami andare, madre
Let Me Go
Adelphi
February 2001
Foreign Rights:
Brazilian - Berlendis & Vertecchia
Chinese (complex) - Yilin Press
Chinese (semplified) - Azoth Books
Czech - Albatros
Danish - Lindhart
French - Robert Laffont
German - Piper
Greek - Oceanida
Japanese - Shincho-Sha
Portuguese - Difel
Spanish - Salamandra
UK & BC - Heinemann
US & Canada - Walker & Company /
Il rogo di Berlino
The Bonfire of Berlin
Adelphi
May 1995
Foreign Rights:
French - Robert Laffont
German - Piper / Heyne
Catalan - Salamandra
UK & BC - Heinemann
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Dove comincia la notte
Where the Night Begins
Rizzoli
February 2013
ALESSIO VIOLA
Roberto De Angelis is a good cop, the best in the “Bari Mobile” squad. He is
always on the lookout, especially at night, when the city forgets her beauty and
becomes the land of crime. But a street life is a life of solitude, disillusionment
and daily violence, and even the toughest cop wonders whether it really makes
sense to keep fighting.
There is a woman, a doctor in her thirties, that could give him a second
chance, a new life; but she has a dark side, she is unable to tell love from pain;
Roberto can not, does not want to approve of that.
The opportunity to redeem himself appears when he intercepts Giacinto
Trentadue, a young drug dealer, no more than a juvenile delinquent, at least in
appearance. Roberto shadows him to Poggiofelice, a residence in the southern
part of the city, once a shelter for evicted people.
Roberto does not know it yet, but he has located the fortress of the new Bari’s
underworld, a “wild bunch” that came out of the historic districts and is ready
to unleash a bloody campaign to conquer the territory. For the cop it is only
the beginning of a journey to hell, beyond his own limits and that of the law
too.
Alessio Viola former worker, teacher,
host and rugby player, contributed to
“La Repubblica” and “Il Corriere del
Mezzogiorno”; he wrote, among other,
numerous articles about the hidden
economy of Bari.
Dove comincia la notte is a melancholic noir, at the same time one of the most
raw yet polished in recent years. It is the portrait of a city - unknown in many
ways - able to give you glimpses of infinite sweetness, while stabbing you at
the heart a second later.
Foreign Rights:
French - Rivages
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Momenti di insopprimibile fastidio
Moments of Irrepressible Nuisance
FEDERICA BERNARDO
What a nuisance ...
The “stop” signal. And the blinking one, when you are in a hurry, you are still
far and you know that you will never make it.
The pinch of salt and the “just enough” explanation, passed off as scientific
unit of measurement in recipes.
The safety caps: children figure them out immediately and open them in a
second, adults need a lot of thinking and huge efforts.
The unpaid internships.
The silver paper of Nutella.
The length of the wires of the headsets: why are they asymmetric?
The sponge of the dishes: it’s impossible to stop its foam when you are finished.
The Hundred Years’ War, as it does not last a hundred years.
Who has not experienced a moment of annoyance? One of those small, ordinary, insignificant and often subtle nuisances that spoil the days.
Federica Bernardo decided to collect them in this ironic and unique book.
As nuisance has no age, no genre / sexual orientation (it’s equally distribuited
among men and women) nor political orientation.
It is evergreen (like the bile), it is suitable for every season and it never goes
out of fashion. And… Actually it makes us feel better to find out that other
people have more trouble than we have.
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October 2014
Federica Bernardo was born in Naples in
1985.
She has a degree in Modern Philology at
the Federico II University, she earned a
Master’s degree in Multimedia and Communication, specializing in Food, and another Master’s Degree in Web marketing.
Volcanic and multitasking, she is a blogger
and a temporary teacher of Italian and History in vocational schools. At the bottom
of the class assignments, students often
write her “I LOVE YOU PROF!”
Momenti di insopprimibile fastidio is her
first book.
**www.feltrinellieditore.it/che-fastidio**
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Impara a essere felice
Learn to Be Happy
Einaudi
January 2014
PAOLO CREPET
Being happy may happen much more often than we think, we just have to let
it happen.
Many people complain not just out of habit, or as a self-defense: they excel at
this as they have learned how to complain early, in their childhood.
Fighting this attitude means to develop a new program, to start a small revolution: Paolo Crepet contributes to it through these pages.
Impara a essere felice shows how to educate children to be happy; it should be
the ultimate goal of every adult and of every teacher to educate people to real
happiness, not to be confused with the ephemeral joy. Children will grow up
stronger and less vulnerable or fragile, boys will be really free.
Paolo Crepet is a psychiatrist and
a sociologist, and the most authoritative
Italian expert on problems relating to
adolescence. He writes both fiction and
non-fiction books.
Among his works (all published by
Einaudi):
Novels:
Naufragi: tre storie di confine (1999);
La ragione dei sentimenti (2002);
Dannati e leggeri (2004);
Un’anima divisa (2010).
Essays:
Non siamo capaci di ascoltarli (2001);
Noi e voi (2003);
A una donna tradita (2008);
Sfamiglia (2009);
Elogio dell’amicizia (2013).
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The Secret of Happy Love
Mondadori
January 2014
RAFFAELE MORELLI
“People in love suffer because they resist it, because they want this cosmic
force to adjust to their daily life.
Every argument, every comparison, explanation or project is far from Love.
It’s a betrayal of Love to wait for Love, to check when it comes and from where
it comes. This means to suffer.”
After changing the usual points of view on diets and physical health, Raffaele
Morelli undermines the clichés about love: it is not true that in order to love
others, people must first love themselves.
It’s not true that a “serious” relationship lasts forever; that it’s too late to Love;
that opportunities are lost forever; that people who flee Love win.
It’s not true that people must forget what’s happened in the past and come
back together; but above all, it is not true that people need to improve their
own love relationship.
It’s not true that people have to look for love with a capital L; to wait for Prince
Charming; to understand what made t hem fall in love.
It’s not true that people have to understand Love.
An unsettling, provocative, enlightening book, Il segreto dell’amore felice will
reveal to those who follow its recommendations, the precious secret of happy
Love.
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Raffaele Morelli is a doctor, psychiatrist
and psychotherapist.
Among his works (all by Mondadori):
Ciascuno è perfetto (2004);
Come essere felici (2005);
Non siamo nati per soffrire (2005);
Come amare ed essere amati (2006)
Le piccole cose che cambiano la vita (2006);
Come trovare l’armonia in se stessi (2007);
Ama e non pensare (2007);
Il sesso è amore (2008);
La felicità è dentro di te (2009);
Puoi fidarti di te (2009);
L’unica cosa che conta (2010);
La felicità è qui (2011);
Dimagrire senza dieta (2011);
Guarire senza medicine (2012).
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Enne
En
Rizzoli
March 2014
BIAGIO SIMONETTA
“En” is the symbol of Nitrogen. It is a colorless, tasteless, invisible gas, and it
is the most widespread element in the air. It is everywhere, as globas as crime.
Crime is widespread thanks to the Internet.
In recent years, new technologies have remarkably simplified our daily life.
Each of us processes tasks that in the past requested several hours - queuing at
the counter, forms to fill in - with a simple click.
We are so excited by this, that we often forget that Mafias are involved too.
They asserted themselves in the web in a way that is as dangerous as furtive and invisible. They discovered new weapons and new, never exploited
markets and new ways to handle business transactions. Today, for example,
drug dealers do not work in the dark alleys or places of ill-fame, but in the
deep layers of the World Wide Web; pushers decide their movements and
organize their appointments with drug-addicts through Facebook. Money
laundering is conducted through computers; even though threats of extortion
are virtual, they are no less dangerous. At the same time, it has become clear
that cybercrime – stealing ID or copying credit cards – is more profitable than
drug-dealing: thus a new generation of “picciotti-hacker” is born.
Biagio Simonetta, journalist, lives in
Milan since 2010. Author of numerous
investigations into the organized crime
world, he worked for seven years at the
“Quotidiano della Calabria” and has collaborated with “La Stampa” and “Il Corriere
della Sera”. He currently writes for “Il Sole
24 Ore”. He published Faide. L’impero della
‘Ndrangheta (Cairo Editore, 2011) and I
padroni della crisi (Il Saggiatore, 2013).
After having studied for years the “traditional ‘Ndrangheta”, Biagio Simonetta
has devoted himself to this new universe - as fluid as a river - and has outlined
its contours offering us a lucid analysis of the frightening crime 2.0. Enne reads like a thriller, like a novel, but it describes a reality very close to each of us.
Foreign Rights:
Chinese (simplified) - Shanghai Literature
& Art Publishing House
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10 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH
TERZANI’S DIARIES ARE PUBLISHED
Un’idea di destino
An Idea of Destiny
Longanesi
May 2014
TIZIANO TERZANI
“What makes of our life a happy adventure”? Tiziano Terzani asks himself in
this extraordinary posthumous work.
Un’idea di destino is a uncessant and passionate dialogue between History and
Terzani’s personal story: his travels, his political ideas, his doubts, the life in
China, the Vietnam war, his letters to his wife and his children.
These pages, gathered by the author himself until his very last days, reveal the
curious and vital nature of a man who loved questions more than answers and
that never stopped facing the World and his own conscience.
Tiziano Terzani was born in Florence
in 1938. Since 1971 he had
been the Asian correspondent for
the German weekly “Der Spiegel” and a
contributor to the Italian dailies “La Repubblica” and “Il Corriere della Sera”.
He lived in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, and since 1994 he travelled between
Tuscany and the Himalayas, where he
lived with his wife, the writer Angela Staude. He died in July 2004.
A renowned expert on Asian matters
and a journalist of great international
prestige, he was awarded the Luigi
Barzini Special Correspondent Prize
in May 1997. His books have been
translated in several languages.
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Elogio dell’amicizia
In Praise of Friendship
Einaudi
November 2012
PAOLO CREPET
A book about the noblest of social and emotional bonds, that reveals the
power of friendship, comforting and revolutionary at the same time, in these
times of crisis and trivialization of feelings.
Paolo Crepet is a psychiatrist and
a sociologist, and the most authoritative
Italian expert on problems relating to
adolescence. He writes both fiction and
non-fiction books.
With his typical voice, sober but passionate, Paolo Crepet talks about a feeling
“more dogmatic than love”, which doesn’t allow for niceties, in order to give
friendship the dignity it deserves. He wonders male and female friendship, its
relationship with love and sex, with pain and death, with fidelity and cheating.
And also, he writes about friendship between parents and children, and its
meaning in the social network era. He reveals that the most powerful relationships in our life are the ones that do not judge and do not negotiate, but only
ask for complicity and generosity.
Among his works (all published by
Einaudi):
Novels:
Naufragi: tre storie di confine (1999);
La ragione dei sentimenti (2002);
Dannati e leggeri (2004);
Un’anima divisa (2010).
Unforgettable portraits will bring along to us something from the past and
make us understand that when it comes to friendship time is never lost.
Essays:
Non siamo capaci di ascoltarli (2001);
Noi e voi (2003);
A una donna tradita (2008);
Sfamiglia (2009);
Elogio dell’amicizia (2013).
Foreign Rights:
Brazilian - Sabares
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La voce di Pistoletto
Pistoletto’s Voice
Bompiani
May 2013
ALAIN ELKANN
Michelangelo Pistoletto – whom the Louvre Musuem dedicated an exhibition
in April 2013 – talks about himself. Prodded by Alain Elkann, he tells about
his childhood, his parents, the War, mingling his personal story with History,
including Fascism and Nazism.
Alain Elkann was born in New
York in 1950. He now lives between
Rome, Milan and Paris. He contributes on
a regular basis to the
newspaper “La Stampa” and to other
periodicals such as “Lo Specchio” and
“Amica”.
He writes both fiction and non fiction.
Beyond memories, he also mentions his Masters, big names he still looks
up to: from Rauschenberg to Warhol; from Yves Klein, Picasso, Magritte,
Giacometti, Bacon and Penone to Cattelan, Hirst and Koons; from Morandi,
Blathus, Pollock to Fontana and Burri.
Among his works (all by Bompiani):
Essays:
Vita di Moravia (2007);
A trilogy about religion:
Cambiare il cuore - with Carlo Maria
Martini (1993);
Essere ebreo - with Elio Toaff (1994);
Essere musulmano - with His Royal
Highness Prince El Hassan Bin Talal.
(2001).
Novels:
Il padre francese (1999);
Le mura di Gerusalemme (2000);
John Star (2001);
L’invidia (2006);
L’equivoco (2008).
Foreign Rights:
English (World) - Rizzoli / Universe International
French (World) - Actes Sud
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CARLO GINZBURG
Published by Einaudi:
I Benandanti (1996);
Storia notturna (1989);
Miti, emblemi, spie (1984);
Indagini su Piero (1981);
Il formaggio e i vermi (1976);
Il Nicodemismo (1970).
Published by Panini Editore:
Jean Fouquet. Ritratto del buffone Gonella (1996)
French - Gallimard; English (World)- Versus
Published by Feltrinelli:
Rapporti di forza. Storia, retorica, prova (2001)
Brazilian - Compania das Letras; Czech - Karolinum; French - Seuil; German Wagenbach; Japanese - Misuzu Shobo; Spanish - Peninsula; Turkish - Yayinari.
Nessuna isola è un’isola. Quattro sguardi sulla letteratura inglese (published by
Columbia UP in 2000; the Italian translation came out for Feltrinelli in 2002).
Brazilian - Compania das Letras; Chinese (simplified) - East China Normal
Uni.; Korean - Seamulgyul; Spanish - Universitad Autonoma de Tabasco;
USA - Columbia Un. Press.
His collection of essays, Occhiacci di legno, was awarded the prestigious Premio Viareggio in August 1998.
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Carlo Ginzburg was born in Turin
in 1939. He teaches Modern History
at the University of Bologna and at
UCLA. In 1993 in Hamburg he was
awarded the Aby Warburg Prize.
Ginzburg’s studies are characterized by an
interdisciplinary approach and are focused
on popular culture and on its contribution
to contemporary culture.
His books are narrated in a very
approachable way that makes them similar
to novels.
Distance, loss and estrangement in relation to cultural difference are the main
themes examined.
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RAFFAELE MORELLI
Guarire senza medicine
Recovering without Medicines
Mondadori
November 2012
Dimagrire senza dieta
Losing Weight without Dieting
Mondadori
November 2011
Foreign Rights:
French - Solar
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Raffaele Morelli is a doctor, psychiatrist
and psychotherapist.
Among his works (all by Mondadori):
Ciascuno è perfetto (2004);
Come essere felici (2005);
Non siamo nati per soffrire (2005);
Come amare ed essere amati (2006)
Le piccole cose che cambiano la vita (2006);
Come trovare l’armonia in se stessi (2007);
Ama e non pensare (2007);
Il sesso è amore (2008);
La felicità è dentro di te (2009);
Puoi fidarti di te (2009);
L’unica cosa che conta (2010);
La felicità è qui (2011).
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GIANLUIGI NUZZI
Sua Santità
His Holiness
NON FICTION
Metastasi
Metastasis
with CLAUDIO ANTONELLI
Chiarelettere
May 2012
Chiarelettere
December 2010
Foreign Rights:
Brasilian - Leya
French - Michel Lafon
German - Piper
Hungarian - Alexandra
Polish - Czarna Owca
Portuguese - Bertrand
Slovenian - Modrijan
Spanish - Martinez Roca
Foreign Rights:
English (World) - McMillan
German - Ecowin
Vaticano S.p.A.
The Vatican Papers
Chiarelettere
May 2009
Foreign Rights:
Brazilian - Larousse
French - Hugo & Cie
German - Ecowin
Greek - Itamos
Dutch - Prometeus
Japanese - Kashiwashobo
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Korean - Sunest
Lithuanian - Medivista
Portuguese - Presenca
Serbian - Tin Drum Music
Spanish - Martinez Roca
Gianluigi Nuzzi is an anchormen
for the newspaper “Libero”. He also
contributes to the newspaper “Il Corriere
della Sera” and the magazine “Panorama”.
Since 1994 he has been dealing with the
major criminal investigations
that have political and financial
implications in our country.
In 2008 he was the first to access
monsignor Dardozzi’s secret archive,
disclosing some of the Vatican’s
secrets revealed in the book Vaticano
S.p.A.
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FOREWORD BY
LORETTA NAPOLEONI
I padroni della crisi
The Masters of the Crisis
Il Saggiatore
January 2013
BIAGIO SIMONETTA
The economic crisis is fierce. It seems endless. Even those who, in 2011,
denied its existence are now forced to deal with the serious social and human
costs of the economic recession. While televisions routinely talk about the
spread and “blood and tears” financial maneuvers, Biagio Simonetta analyzes
this situation from an uncommon perspective. It is the point of view of the
winners: the Mafias.
The game is always the same: a lot of money means a lot of power, especially
when the money is scarce everywhere. Its results are as immediate as puzzling: in Italy, as in the rest of the world, the more the economy shrinks, the
more the Mafias expand. The immense liquidity obtained from cocaine traffic
has saved some of the largest banks in the world from bankruptcy, and loans
granted by ‘Ndrangheta, Camorra and Cosa Nostra look like opportunities to
those small businesses in the grip of the credit crunch; if the only alternative
is to go out of business, it really does not matter that criminal organizations
require absurd rates of interests and that one day they might become the only
owners of the company.
And when the government does not come to help with the tragedy of unemployment and poverty, Mafia’s liquidity buys everything. Or it finds excellent
money laundering opportunities, exploiting those who desperately sell off
their family jewels to “We Buy Gold” shops or have the illusion to repay their
mortgage by hitting the jackpot with a slot-machine.
I padroni della crisi explores the chamaleontic power of mafias, capable of
profiting from the weaknesses of our society, today as in the old days of Al
Capone.
And it unveils a bitter truth that only few want to hear: the illegal economy
has given relief to most of legal economy. But it is only a temporary relief that
rapidly turns into a noose that, while the recession progresses, gathers around
people’s neck. And it threatens our democracy
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Biagio Simonetta, journalist, lives in
Milan since 2010. Author of numerous
investigations into the organized crime
world, he worked for seven years at the
“Quotidiano della Calabria” and has collaborated with “La Stampa” and “Il Corriere
della Sera”. He currently writes for “Il Sole
24 Ore”. He published Faide. L’impero della
‘Ndrangheta (Cairo Editore, 2011) and
Enne (Rizzoli, 2014).
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TIZIANO TERZANI
La fine è il mio inizio
My Ending Is My Beginning
Longanesi
March 2006
Foreing Rights:
Chinese - Shanghai Ying Te Song Culture
Dutch - Primavera Pers
French - Intervalles
German - DVA Random House
Greek - Diigisi
Korean - Dulnyouk
Polish - Zysk I S-Ka
Spanish - Maeva
Ungarian - Libretto Koenyvkiado
World Chinese Hong Kong Macau (Traditional characteres, excluding
Mainland)- CTW Culture
Un altro giro di giostra
Another Turn on the Merry-Go-Round
Longanesi
March 2004
Foreign Rights:
Catalan - Pagès
German - Hoffmann & Campe
Greek - Diigisi
Polish - Swiat Ksiazki
Slovenian - Zalozba Eno
Turkish - Merkez Kitapcilik
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Tiziano Terzani was born in Florence
in 1938. Since 1971 he had
been the Asian correspondent for
the German weekly “Der Spiegel” and a
contributor to the Italian dailies “La Repubblica” and “Il Corriere della Sera”.
He lived in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, and since 1994 he travelled between
Tuscany and the Himalayas, where he
lived with his wife, the writer Angela Staude. He died in July 2004.
A renowned expert on Asian matters
and a journalist of great international
prestige, he was awarded the Luigi
Barzini Special Correspondent Prize
in May 1997. His books have been
translated in several languages.
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Lettere contro la guerra
Letters against the War
Un indovino mi disse
A Fortune-Teller Told Me
Longanesi
February 2002
Longanesi
1996
Foreign Rights:
Arabian - The National Centre for Translation
French - Liana Levi
German - Goldmann/Bertelsmann
Indian - India Research
Polish - W.A.B.
Slovenian - Sanje
Spanish (World) - RBA
Foreign Rights:
Brazilian - Globo
Bulgarian - Colibri
Dutch - Byblos
German - Hoffmann & Campe
Polish - W.A.B.
Portuguese - Tinta da China
Thailandese - Nanm Eebooks
USA - Random House
In Asia
In Asia
Longanesi
1998
Foreign Rights:
German - DVA Random House
Polish - W.A.B
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ANGELA TERZANI STAUDE
Giorni giapponesi
Japanese Days
Angela Terzani Staude was born in
Florence to German parents, grew
up in Italy and studied in Munich.
She worked as a translator (Burckhardt,
Freud, Jung) for Italian publishers. She
and her husband, the journalist Tiziano
Terzani, had lived in Asia since 1972: in
Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo,
Bangkok.
Longanesi
October 1994
Foreign Rights:
German - Hoffman & Campe
Giorni cinesi
Chinese Days
Longanesi
1987
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