Another fabulous review for Niccolò Ammaniti's "Io e te"!

Niccolo Ammaniti is a literary star in Italy; one of the "young cannibal" movement, who integrate elements of popular culture into their work.

His first novel, I'm not Scared, was a bestseller in Italy, where it was made into a film. His third featured unsavoury characters trying to fight their way out of poverty with crime.

Me and You is an international bestseller and is being made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci. In contrast to Ammaniti's previous novel, the protagonists here are affluent, and as in his first, a child takes centre stage.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/me-and-you-by-niccolo-ammaniti-trs-by-kylee-doust-6776958.html

Bernardo Bertolucci talks about Niccolo Ammaniti's "Io e te"! Don't miss it!

The film based on Niccolo Ammaniti's book will be shown at this year's prestigious Cannes film festival.

Click here to see the interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0vQ8VtNkFA

The story:

Barricato in cantina per trascorrere di nascosto da tutti la sua settimana bianca, Lorenzo, un quattordicenne introverso e un po' nevrotico, si prepara a vivere il suo sogno solipsistico di felicità: niente conflitti, niente fastidiosi compagni di scuola, niente commedie e finzioni. Il mondo con le sue regole incomprensibili fuori della porta e lui stravaccato su un divano, circondato di Coca-Cola, scatolette di tonno e romanzi horror. Sarà Olivia, che piomba all'improvviso nel bunker con la sua ruvida e cagionevole vitalità, a far varcare a Lorenzo la linea d'ombra, a fargli g

ettare la maschera di adolescente difficile e accettare il gioco caotico della vita là fuori. Con questo racconto di formazione Ammaniti aggiunge un nuovo, lancinante scorcio a quel paesaggio dell'adolescenza di cui è impareggiabile ritrattista. E ci dà con Olivia una figura feminile di fugace e struggente bellezza.

Einaudi Stile libero big

116 pagine

Ottobre 2010

Daniela Ranieri's debut novel "Tutto cospira a tacere di noi" is out now!

Luigi Trevor used to be a respected physics researcher and he’s now an hacktivist and founder of a revolutionary collective called “Nuclei Digitali Dissidenti”. When he manages to get hired by a big communication company called Fantasy Mix, with the intent of sabotaging their links with the repressive regimes of the Middle East, he's sent to replace Arianna, a former employee of the company who misteriously disappeared. After hacking into Arianna’s laptop, Luigi Trevor starts to unravel documents, letters, pages of a diary and even a draft of a novel that maybe contains the key to her disappearance. Arianna seems to be guiding him from a distance through the pieces of the Fantasy Mix criminal conspiracy, and before he knows, Trevor finds himself helplessy in love with the missing girl.

“Tutto cospira a tacere di noi” ("Everything conspires to silence us", a quote of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke) is an astonishing debut novel. An impossible love story, a political noir and a deep reflection on how digital culture influenced our lives, our feelings, our jobs and our society.

Daniela Ranieri
"Tutto cospira a tacere di noi"
Ponte alle Grazie, January 2012
364 pages

Great Review about Moccia and the lovelocks on dailynews.com!

Love-struck tourists leave locks clipped to Brooklyn Bridge

The symbolic gesture of everlasting infatuation popped up in Rome about five years ago as locals started copying the lustful characters in Italian author Federico Moccia’s popular novel “Ho Voglia di Te”, or “I Want You" in Italian.
The trend then spread to Paris and became noticeable on the Brooklyn border in 2010.
Moccia told England’s The Guardian newspaper in August that his self-invented fad was spreading to New York: “And that is why the padlocks are now appearing on bridges right around the world, including (the) Brooklyn Bridge.”
City Department of Transportation officials, who monitor the city’s bridges, said they were aware of the locks and “on occasion we inspect the bridge for these and remove them as necessary,” a spokesman said.
A bridge worker said the locks have become a popular attraction on the span.
“Tourists leave them behind. They write their names and the date on them. A lot of people have been asking about them,” the worker said.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/love-struck-tourists-leave-locks-clipped-brooklyn-bridge-article-1.980931?localLinksEnabled=false

Francesco Pacifico's novel "Story of my Purity" is in Spanish bookshops!

Piero has decided to follow the Lord, his Bachelor of Arts is leading him to Perdition, novels have filled his head with bullshit, his bourgeouis life in the upperclass Parioli area of Rome has taken him far away from the spiritual essence of things, travelling and sex have blinded him to the truth. So here he is, only just turning thirty, married to Alice, living in the outskirts of Rome in his 80 square metre apartment with a view of IKEA, just a hop skip and a jump away from his local parish where he can hang out with a peaceful group of people, who keep their feet on the ground. Of course, the prissy charm of his sister-in-law Ada is sometimes a temptation, but Piero Rosini knows how to resist the demon's temptations. He works as an editor for a Catholic integralist publishing house, editing books which highlight the decadence of social behaviour and degradation of mordern society.

And he is suffocating. Piero is living in the world he thought would be perfect and he is suffocating. So he decides to accept a position in an ultra-catholic publishing house in Paris which is for him the emblem of the sinful life, the very life he has tried to keep at a distance and destroy with his suburban lifestyle and the perfect christian family …

For more information see the following links:

http://libreriaatlantida.blogspot.com/2011/11/destacados-de-la-semana-vii.html

http://www.edicions62.cat/ca/llibre/historia-de-la-meva-puresa_16748.html

Benedetta Cibrario's new novel "Lo Scurnuso" is out now!

Lo Scurnuso

Tommaso Iannacone's fingers are stiff with arthritis. He can no longer make a living moulding figurines for the wealthy Neapolitan families that once flocked to his workshops and he is forced to sell Sebastiano, his talented young apprentice. He fools himself into believing that he will one day buy Sebastiano back.

The young apprentice is taken in by a famous local sculptor who gives him no chance to express his creativity. Sebastiano can only steal pieces of clay at the risk of being kicked out on to the streets. When the sculptor's daughter, whose affection for Sebastiano is not reciprocated, tries to punish him out of spite and reveals the figurines he makes from the precious stolen clay does Sebastiano's ability come to light.

The Sculptor himself cannot believe his luck as he studies the lifelike expression on the miniature figurine, an exact replica of his old colleague Tommaso Iannacone.

This delightful novella captures the magic and the mystery behind the making of the figurines for the Neapolitan nativity scenes and following the birth of “Lo Scurnuso” and in the hands of his owners across the centuries Benedetta brings to life three different epoques. Masterfully and evocatively written, this is Benedetta Cibrario's most mature novel to date.

Scurnuso – “Shameful” – is the name of a figurine from the typical Neapolitan scene.

"La Repubblica" gives a positive review of Flavia Piccinni's "Lo sbaglio"!

A game of chess with your own destiny in Flavia Piccinni's intense novel

20 novembre 2011 — pagina 48 sezione: CULTURA

In this universe where the last resort is boredom (or violence) there are many women who believe in imposing their dominance, but in reality they are bound to fail: the mother is leaving the family, the grandmother is coming back defeated from Taranto and Caterina's friend, Irene, is leaving. The only one who's trying to break free ins Caterina, playing her last game of chess ...

You can find the rest of the review here:

http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2011/11/20/una-partita-scacchi-con-il-proprio-destino.html

Ebook in the contract

This month "Apogeo Editore" published Ginevra Villa's work on ebook rights with a presentation of Kylee Doust. How do you calculate the earnings of an ebook? Is it useful to keep the ebook in the stores when the actual book is not available any more? You'll find the answers to these and many other questions!

For more information check out this link! http://www.apogeonline.com/libri/9788850314096/scheda