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FOREIGN RIGHTS
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London Book Fair
2018
O T A G O
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I N D E X
• Claudio Morandini’s books 3
• Fiction 7
• Non-fiction 21
CLAUDIO MORANDINI
“Morandini is simply one of the greatest Italian
writers of our time”.
Fabrizio Ottaviani, «il Giornale»
Claudio Morandini lives in Aosta and he works as a high school teacher. He wrote radio
comedies, theatre monologues and several novels.
His book A gran giornate won the “Città di Trebisacce” Literary Prize in 2013.
His account Dita fredde is included in the italian-american Santi – Lives of Modern Saints
(Black Arrow Press, Baltimora, 2007).
Neve, cane, piede has been a real literary phenomenon: a Top 5 Italian best-sellers novel,
it won the Procida-Elsa Morante-Isola di Arturo prize in 2016 and, so far, it has been sold
to France, Chile and Turkey (in a two-books deal, including his latest novel Le pietre).
Neve, cane, piede film rights have been sold to the producer and director Maurizio Zaccaro.
In 2018, Salani will publish his children’s book Le famose maschere di Pocacosa and, from
2019, his new novels will be published by Bompiani.
Recent titles:
• 2018: Le famose maschere di Pocacosa, Italy
(Salani Editore)
• 2017: Le pietre, Italy (Exòrma), Turkey (Timaş)
• 2015: Neve, cane, piede, Italy (Exòrma),
France (Anacharsis), Chile (Edicola), Turkey
(Timaş)
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Claudio Morandini
LE FAMOSE MASCHERE DI POCACOSA
GENRE: CHILDREN’S NOVEL · PAGES: 160 · RELEASE DATE: SEP 2018 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(The famous masks of Pocacosa)
AFTER THE SUCCESS OF NEVE, CANE, PIEDE, CLAUDIO
MORANDINI RETURNS TO HIS MOUNTAINS TO WRITE A
PRISTINE AND CHARMING COMING-OF-AGE TALE THAT
SALANI WILL PROUDLY PUBLISH ON 2018.
Pocacosa is a little village in the Alps where, every year at Carnival, eve-
ryone wears a mask. But not the kind of masks one could think of. Ex-
travagant, elaborate and fanciful, those masks are people’s protection,
so that they can run after each other, get back at someone and play
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bizarre pranks. For one night, everything is permitted. The only rule
is that, one minute before midnight, everyone must go back to reality.
Remigio is a smart and shy young boy. He’s the top of his class and,
now that Carnival time is here, he’s well aware that his schoolmates
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will make him pay for this. And that is the reason why Remigio decides
to arm himself: he builds a majestic, iron mask, so that he can be taller
and scarier than everyone else in his class. But someone finds out about
his plan and, on the eve of Carnival, his mask gets destroyed.
Remigio has no other choice but to run away to the mountains, where
he eventually meets the old, mythic Bonifacio, a hermit on whose ac-
count all kinds of terrible stories are told.
But every legend has its share of ar-
tificiality, and so Remigio finds in
Bonifacio the helping hand he was
needing all along.
Once famous as a most industrious
and experienced masks-maker, this
old and wise man will build with
Remigio an armour made of wood,
leaves and birds’ nests. The most
marvellous mask that Pocacosa has
ever seen.
Under a shell that will make him in-
vincible, Remigio will find the cour-
age to face his enemies. And, above
anything else, he will learn that fear
is not a weapon that one should
raise on others, but a feeling that
we all must try and control. For our
own sake.
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NEVE, CANE, PIEDE
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 144 · RELEASE DATE: NOV 2015 (4° ED. FEB 2017) · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(Snow, Dog, Foot)
NUMBER 5 ON ITALIAN BEST-SELLERS LIST, FEBRUARY 2017.
MOVIE RIGHTS SOLD TO FREESOLO LTD. BY PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR MAURIZIO ZACCARO
SOLD TO FRANCE, CHILE, TURKEY - MOVIE RIGHTS SOLD.
“Le chien, la neige, un pied est un récit saisissant et cruel, déroutant, sem-
WINNER OF “PREMIO PROCIDA-ISOLA DI ARTURO-ELSA MORANTE” 2016
blabe à ces histoires légendaires que l’on aime à raconter à la veillée”.
Florence Courriol-Seita, «Le Monde»
SOLD TO: FRANCE (Anacharsis), CHILE (Edicola), TURKEY (Timaş)
“One of the most competent and astonishing novelist of our literary scene”.
Umberto Rossi, «Pulp libri»
“If you wish to combine a boundless fantasy with a philosophy of life that
WINNER OF “MODUS LEGENDI” 2017
knows no lies, Morandini is the one for you”.
F I C T I O N
Fabrizio Ottaviani, «il Giornale»
English sample available
“This is an impeccable short novel, full of attention to detail and musical
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rhythm”.
Fabrizio Coscia, «il Mattino»
In the Alps, there is a lonesome valley where the old and scatterbrained
Adelmo Farandola wanders, crazy with solitude.
Adelmo’s only companion is a nagging dog; together they form an unu-
sual comic pairing, since Adelmo is able to understand its talking as
well as those of other animals of the mountains. He also understands
the voices of the wind, the sky, and even of the dead.
Struggling in the wild and hostile nature around him, we follow him
in the changing of seasons and in the repetitiveness of his actions: but
then one day, as spring arrives, Adelmo and his dog notice a foot in the
melting snow.
Snow, dog, foot is a strange little book that one can read cover to cover,
enchanted by its characters and their sarcastic profundity.
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Claudio Morandini
LE PIETRE
(Stones)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 192 · RELEASE DATE: APR 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
TO BE PUBLISHED IN TURKEY IN 2019.
“Balancing immanence and metaphysics, Morandini creates a
ghost story that rolls gloriously down the mountanside.”
Michele Lauro, «Panorama»
“Morandini embraces a mistery and he paints it with humour”.
F I C T I O N
Alessandro Beretta, «Corriere della Sera»
SOLD TO: TURKEY (Timaş)
“Unpredictable, fiendish and spiteful: these are Morandini’ stones”.
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Giorgio Vasta, «la Repubblica»
“A choral and polyphonic novel. Comic and dramatic at the same
time, this story is sharply ironic and deeply realistic.”
«Il Libraio»
In this novel, everything is in motion.
There is a little town in the Alps, Sostig-
no, where all the locals keep moving to
and from the mountains; the river too
is never still, changing its shape over-
night. But most of all, the stones can’t
stay idle. Bizzare events happen all the
time, and the stones make their way
into homes, fields, everywhere they
can. Until they appear in the living
room of an old couple’s “villa”, and
the story unfolds with echoes of Ione-
sco and Buster Keaton.
A funny and choral novel where past
and present merge and collide, just as
if they were stones rolling down the
mountainside.
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Vito di Battista
L’ULTIMA DIVA DICE ADDIO
(Goodbye, Molly Buck)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 224 · RELEASE DATE: FEB 2018 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
A DEBUT NOVEL THAT SINGS AS THE VOICE-OVER BEHIND A
MASTERPIECE.
“One of the 12 must-read new Italian writers of 2018”.
Michele Neri, «GQ»
“An enthralling walk down the memory lane, filled with breath-taking turns
of events. How much of what we remember is actually true?”
Maria Grazia Ligato, «Corriere della Sera»
“A story that forces us to face our myths, our fears and the way that
times relentlessly flees away”.
Elisabetta Colangelo, «Grazia»
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“With his refined and sophisticated debut, Vito di Battista has shown some as-
tonishing writing skills. He absolutely looks like an experienced and gifted writer”.
English sample available
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Geraldine Meyer, «L’Ottavo»
1977, New Year’s Eve. Once a famous movie star, Molly Buck dies in a
private clinic in Florence. Sitting just outside the front gate, there is a
young man that she chose as her biographer. This is the beginning of a
backwards tale that follows Molly Buck’s career, from her retirement to
the splendour of her younger years. In their sleepless nights together,
the narrator had meticulously recorded his muse’s memories and her
life unfolds now through their voices. But nothing is ever as it seems...
With every chapter beginning with the same phrase and the whole story
moving in reverse, Goodbye, Molly Buck is a circular novel on memory
and its lies, investigating the power of words and how it can be able to
redeem a whole existence.
Born in 1986, VITO DI BATTISTA studied Com-
parative Literature in Florence and Bologna. Dur-
ing his studies, he focused on Poetry (especially
by Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Hart Crane) and
on the work of authors like Romain Gary, Tarjei
Vesaas and J.M. Barrie.
He writes on «Nuovi Argomenti» literary maga-
zine (Mondadori) and Futura, the newsletter by
«Corriere della Sera».
His debut novel has been published by SEM - So-
cietà Editrice Milanese, founded by Riccardo Ca-
vallero (former CEO at Mondadori and Random
House) and directed by Antonio Riccardi (former
Editor-in-Chief at Mondadori).
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Silva Gentilini
LE FORMICHE NON HANNO LE ALI
(Ants do not have wings)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 168 · RELEASE DATE: NOV 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
BASED ON AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FACTS, ANTS DO NOT HAVE WINGS IS
THE STORY OF TWO WOMEN SHARING THE SAME TRAGIC FATE: THEY
ARE BOTH FORCED TO GIVE UP THEIR FIRSTBORNS FOR ADOPTION.
“Gentilini’s novel is brutal. Her voice is sharp and set to strike and
make you suffer. And her ants are the inspiration behind this beautiful
memoir, with their thin and undying path that will lead them – just
like her – to salvation”.
«Grazia»
In the ’70s, Emma is a girl who constantly suffers from her father’s tyr-
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anny and abuses. Her mother, sister and grandmother can do nothing
against him, because no one can overcome his depression and deep
English sample available
anger issues. When Emma is 17, her father rapes her. After she finds out
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she’s pregnant with his child, her only option is to follow her mother’s
advice and give up the baby, leaving him in the hands of a sleazy and
unknown doctor.
At the beginning of the century, Margherita falls in love with a boy from
a very rich family. Since she’s a girl of humble background, she has no
one to turn to when he impregnates her. After being separated from
her baby, she decides to emigrate. America will give her a new life, four
husbands, other children and a career as businesswoman. Eventually,
she will find a way to connect with her son, but she’ll never be able to
see him gain.
Despite being decades apart, these two dark, bloody and brave lives
will unexpectedly cross when, after her
mother’s death and her father’s suicide,
Emma decides to trace down the family
that took in her baby.
Telling the true story of one of her ances-
tors and, most of all, her own, Silva Gen-
tilini raises a painfully honest and grace-
fully bold shout for redemption.
Born in 1961, SILVA GENTILINI worked
for more than twenty years as story-editor
for an Italian TV station. She was also a
free-lance journalist for «Cosmopolitan»
e «Moda». Ants do not have wings is her
first novel.
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Alessio Arena
LA DONNA CON LA CANZONE IN
PETTO
(Gilda and the song in her chest)
GENRE: NOVEL · RELEASE DATE: SEP 2018 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
June 8th, 1953. The transatlantic Homeland has just crossed the strait of
Gibraltar, reaching lat. 37’ 21’ North and long. 4’30’ East in the Mediter-
ranean Sea: these are the coordinates reported in the death certification
of Gilda Mignonette, the “voice of Neapolitan music”.
Almost seventy, sick and alcoholic, Donna Gilda will never see Naples
again and she will always be remembered as the “Queen of emigrates”.
The guagliona Esterina Malacarne, her personal assistant and lover of
Gilda’s husband Frank, recalls the Queen’s career in New York City,
as well as the people who were part of her life: Frank Sinatra, Rodolfo
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Valentino and, above anyone else, Federico García Lorca, a father figure
to Esterina and Frank’s bastard child.
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Filled wild passions, gangster’s battles and conflicts with the FBI, Gilda
and the song in her chest is a two-voices story of the Roaring Twenties’
fame and hidden dangers.
An Edith Piaf ante litteram, Gilda is a kaleidoscope figure of lights and
shadows. Rewriting the legend built around her, Alessio Arena takes the
reader through the charming world of the first “Italians in America”, a
reality full of contradictions, compromises and foolish hopes.
ALESSIO ARENA was born in Naples in 1984 and he lives in Barcelona. He is
a singer, writer and translator.
He is author of L’infanzia delle cose (“Giuseppe Giusti Opera Prima” prize),
Il mio cuore è un mandarino acerbo and La letteratura tamil a Napoli (pub-
lished by Neri Pozza in 2014).
He translated Alejandro Palomas’ novels Capodanno da mia madre and
Un figlio (both published by Neri Pozza), the biography of Enrique Vargas,
founder of “Teatro de los sentidos”, and other novels by Reinaldo Arenas.
As a singer, he toured Italy, Spain, Czech Republic and Chile.
His LP Bestiari(o) familiar(e),
recorded between Naples
and Barcelona, has been
nominated for the Targa Ten-
co as the Best Debut Album.
His latest record, La secreta
danza, is written and inter-
preted in Spanish, Catalan
and Italian.
He is currently working on a
theatre project on the life of
Gilda Mignonette.
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Matteo Incerti
IL SUONATORE MATTO
(Tha Mad Piper)
GENRE: BIOGRAPHY · PAGES: 228 · RELEASE DATE: FEB 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
Over the years, articles about The Mad Piper and the story of
David Kirkpatrick have appeared both on Italian and international
N A R R AT I V E N O N - F I CT I O N
newspapers and websites, including «Corriere della Sera»,
«The Times», «Deadline News», «The Scotsman», «The Herald»,
«Scottish Daily Mail» and «Carrick Gazette».
In 2018, British author and filmmaker Damien Lewis got in touch
with Matteo Incerti to congratulate him for his books and his
researches, and to ask for his help regarding a new literary project
that he is currently working on.
“Mad Piper’s bravery has Italian fans in full voice”.
«The Times»
“Bagpiping war hero who died in obscurity in Scotland is celebrated in Italy”.
«Deadline News»
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Tuscany, March 1945. A Scottish soldier from the 2° Highland Light Infantry,
David Kirkpatrick looks bored as he peels potatoes behind the lines. Because
of his eccentric and tempestuous nature, David has been punished countless
times by his superiors.
One day, an unexpected message changes his life forever: The Special Forces
are looking for a bagpipe player to embark in a secret mission against a very
important target. Kirkpatrick volunteers for the task and, dressed up in his kilt,
he parachuted on the Appennino Reggiano. From that moment, he will be for-
ever known as the “Mad Piper”.
The sound of his bagpipe helped to protect the people of Albinea – a little vil-
lage just outside Reggio Emilia – from a terrible attack by the Nazis.
He provided the stirring bagpiping soundtrack, and his music also gave the
impression that the attackers were a solely British force when in reality dozens
of Italian freedom fighters were participating.
The tactic saved hundreds of lives in Albinea as Nazi policy at the time was to
kill ten local civilians for each of their own soldiers
killed in a partisan attack.
Nevertheless, for the next 65 years, David has not
been aware of his hero status and he kept on suffer-
ing from terrible nightmares regarding that night.
But one summer day in 2010, a letter from Italy
turns the last years of his life into a beautiful fairy-
tale. A fairy-tale about peace, music and friendship.
Born in 1971, MATTEO INCERTI is a journalist and he
works as Press Secretary for a political party on the Repub-
lic Senate. He has been a foreign correspondent in Neth-
erlands, Belgium and Scandinavia. Before The Mad Piper,
he published other books, including two historical novels.
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Massimo Pulini
MAL’OCCHIO
GENRE: HISTORICAL NOVEL · PAGES: 304 · RELEASE DATE: JAN 2018 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(Mal’occhio)
THIS NOVEL HAS BEEN PUBLISHED WITH THE SUPPORT OF
THE SIR DENIS MAHON CHARITABLE TRUST, AN ENGLISH
FOUNDATION FOCUSED ON PROMOTING THE STUDY AND
THE LEGACY OF GUERCINO’S WORK. IN THE PAST YEARS,
THE FOUNDATION ARRANGED EXHIBITIONS AND PRIZES IN
LONDON, OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE AND DUBLIN.
“Nowadays, Massimo Pulini is the most prestigious connoisseur of
Guercino in Italy”.
F I C T I O N
Rosita Copioli, «Corriere Romagna»
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Guercino was an Italian baroque painter. He spent most of his life
around the city of Bologna, where he died in 1666.
As his name suggests, he was squint-eyed.
This historical novel, the first one ever written on Guercino, recounts
those years of torment and passion: the tragic relationship with La-
vinia, his lover and muse; the so-
cial conflicts of his time and his
increasing influence as a painter.
A tale filled with the double na-
ture of his character’s art: wild
and spiritual, mystical and dis-
rupted at the same time.
A writer and art historian, MAS-
SIMO PULINI wrote novels, dra-
mas and essays on Caravaggio,
Piero Della Francesca and Raf-
faello.
11Enrico Brizzi
“EPOPEA FANTASTORICA ITALIANA”
(Italian ‘fanta-historical’ epic tale)
“His writing is still brilliant and ‘fat’, meaning thriving, just as his hometown
Bologna”.
Laura Pezzino, «Vanity Fair»
“One must a have a great ability to write something like this, a story about
a world that could have been ours, filled with echoes of Celati, Tondelli and
Benni. It’s a chance to think things through”.
Giovanni Tesio, «la Stampa»
“Brizzi brings to life a scenario of memorable characters, something quite
rare on days like these”.
Aurelio Pasini, «il Mucchio»
“A true colossal about Italian (fanta) history”.
«QLibri»
F I C T I O N
A TRILOGY BY ENRICO BRIZZI
Born in 1974, at 19 ENRICO BRIZZI published his debut novel, Jack Fr-
usciante has left the band, later translated in 24 languages. In 1996 it
inspired an Italian movie by the same name.
His second book, Bastogne, has been translated to French, German and
Spanish.
He later wrote ten more novels, published by Baldini&Castoldi and
Mondadori, comics, graphic novels, guides.
At the present time, the “Italian fanta-historical epic tale” consists of
three novels that will soon be republished all together. Brizzi is cur-
rently working on the fourth chapter of the epopee.
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Enrico Brizzi
GENRE: ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVELS ·
“EPOPEA FANTASTORICA ITALIANA”
(Italian ‘fanta-historical’ epic tale)
TO BE REPUBLISHED BY THEORIA FROM MARCH 2018.
L’INATTESA PIEGA DEGLI EVENTI
(The unexpected turn of events)
The question is: what would have happened if Mussolini had won
World War II? The answer begins with this book, first of a three-part
series.
F I C T I O N
Being a sport journalist, Lorenzo Pellegrini is asked to go to Africa
RELEASE DATE: FROM MAR 2018 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
to report the local football championship. It’s the ‘50s and Italy still
rules over its “black” colonies. Over there, Lorenzo will soon find
how “italianization” is just a facade, because prejudice and racism
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are the true rule. But the problem is that something is happening in
his country as well: with Mussolini getting closer to death, Italy is
shaken up by an impending political crisis.
1° ED. BALDINI CASTOLDI DALAI, 2008 • PAG. 448
LA NOSTRA GUERRA
(Our war)
Set in the years between 1942 and 1945, Our war recounts Loren-
zo’s coming of age, as he leaves behind the comforts of middle-class
lifestyle and he struggles with being an evacuee. While Italy goes to
war with the Allies, his education is made of first love, friendships,
betrayals and air raids. Thanks to the author’s vivid imagination,
the second chapter of Brizzi’s epopee has the same bittersweet
taste of most renowned movies from the Italian golden age.
1° ED. BALDINI CASTOLDI DALAI, 2009 • PAG. 640
LORENZO PELLEGRINI E LE DONNE
(Lorenzo Pellegrini and his women)
Lorenzo is 19, the war is over and women are his only thought. Riding
his Vespa, he wanders in the streets of Bologna but his journey will
soon bring him further away, as he chases his goddess Irene. After
he decides to decline his father’s proposal to follow his steps and
become a lawyer, Lorenzo begins his training as a sport journalist
and he discovers an exciting way of life made of swing rhythms and
new stepping-stones.
In the background, Mussolini’s victory reveals its real price…
1° ED. ITALICA, 2012 • PAG. 344
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Liliana Manfredi
IL NAZISTA E LA BAMBINA
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 96 · RELEASE DATE: 2008 (7° ED. SEP 2016) · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(The Nazi and the Child)
A TRUE STORY
7° PRINT
40,000 COPIES SOLD
“THAT SOLDIER SAVED MY LIFE NOT OUT OF PITY, BUT BECAUSE OF THE
SCHOOL EDITION BY FABBRI EDITORE/RIZZOLI EDUCATION (2015)
DISGUST OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING. THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO BELIEVE”.
MOVIE ADAPTATION LA RUGIADA DI SAN GIOVANNI (2016)
Liliana Manfredi
“This story is like a flower blossomed from an heap of atrocity”.
Beppe Carletti, soundtrack composer
F I C T I O N
Liliana Manfredi was the only survivor of a Nazi massacre in June
1944. She was 11 years old when 35 innocent civilians were killed
at Bettola, on the hills of Reggio Emilia. But Liliana’s story has
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something more that makes it unique. After witnessing her
family’s massacre, she was brave enough to escape to the
river. There, with a broken leg and three bullets in her body,
the miracle happened: a Nazi soldier discovered Liliana
hidden in the grass and, instead of giving her the death-
blow, he took her and gently left her on the main road,
risking the martial court in order to save her life.
Not a simple diary of that terrible night of war and
horrors, this book is the story of how, even when
the worst instincts seem to prevail, there is always
some light and pity.
For a single, short moment, the eyes of a child
put a stop to the ferocity and two human souls
found a reason to come together.
I’m seventy years old and I was born twice.
The first time it was in my mother’s house, on
April 29th 1933.
The second time I was on the grass, beside a
house turned to dust by the Germans.
I had three bullets in my body.
That Nazi pointed the rifle in the middle of my
eyes.
Then he looked away, and saved my life.
LILIANA MANFREDI (1933) is the only survivor
of a Nazi massacre in June 1944.
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Marino Magliani
L’ESILIO DEI MOSCERINI DANZANTI
GIAPPONESI
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 180 · RELEASE DATE: MAY 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(When Japanese Dancing Midges Go Into Exile)
“ME AND ANTONIO TABUCCHI USED TO WRITE LETTERS TO EACH OTHER.
LOTS OF THEM, ALWAYS AT NIGHT. AFTERALL, THAT IS WHAT AN EXILE
IS VERY GOOD AT: TO WALK ON THE BANKS OF A RIVER, AND TO STAY
AWAKE WHEN IT’S DARK OUTSIDE”.
“Magliani’s writing gives back to the reader that everlasting, inner conflict
that we all experience with our places and choices. And so the journey be-
comes a metaphor, and all we can do is to close the door behind and leave”.
Alice Pisu, «la Repubblica»
F I C T I O N
“Sharp and exact, Magliani’s words are as watchful as they should be”.
Guido Festinese, «il Manifesto»
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“Magliani pays his depts with his own past, made of breakaways, loves and
places. A fragmented autobiography where no regrets are allowed”.
Gianluca Barbera, «il Giornale»
A professional translator left his hometown to never go back. A voluntary exile
from everything and everyone he knew, including himself.
This is his fragmented autobiography, where everything is supposed to be
true because no one can say otherwise. Sea, shores, horizon, sands and wa-
ters run through the pages with the voice of nostalgia. From one exile to the
other, he claims that all the people in his
condition can do properly only two things:
to walk on the shore and to spend the night
awake.
And we keep him company in this journey,
a life-long journey where he’s chasing him-
self, a journey that will take everyone, just
as it happened to Dante before us, until the
gates of Hell.
MARINO MAGLIANI was born in 1960. He
is a novelist and translator from Spanish
and Dutch. He lives in Netherlands, by the
North Sea. His novels have been published
by Sironi, Instar Libri and Longanesi.
Some of his novels have been translated
into Dutch and German.
His next novel will be published by Chi-
arelettere in 2018.
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Stefano Bonazzi
L’ABBANDONATRICE
(The One who Lives)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 208 · RELEASE DATE: NOV 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
“Stefano Bonazzi is a genius”.
Gian Paolo Serino, «Satisfiction»
“Harsh and sharp, Bonazzi’s voice talks about teenage angst
and desertion”.
«TuStyle»
During the opening night of his first photo exhibition, Davide gets a call:
F I C T I O N
Sofia, a friend that he had not seen of heard from in years, killed herself.
At her burial, Davide will meet Diamante, Sofia’son, a bad-tempered
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sixteen years old who is dragging around some heavy questions: what
was the nature of Sofia and Davide’s relationship? Why did her mother
run away from her hometown and everyone she knew and loved? And
why she finally killed herself?
The one who leaves is a story of panic attacks and drugs, teenage years
and discomfort. A novel about choices and their consequences, what-
ever it is our role in the play.
Born in 1983, STEFANO BONAZZI
is a webmaster, graphic designer
and surrealist photographer. His
first novel, A bocca chiusa, has
been published in 2014 by Newton
Compton.
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Alessandro Gallo
GENRE: CRIME NOVEL · PAGES: 160 · RELEASE DATE: MAR 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
TUTTA UN’ALTRA STORIA
(That’s another story)
That’s another story is the recounting of a liquid friendship,
soon vanished, in that brief time that separates puberty from
adulthood.
Naples. Three teenagers grow up admiring
the racketeers and reproducing their illegal
activities: Diego “El Pibe” dreams of becom-
ing part of the clan, Catia “Boutique” feels
on her body the suffering of her father and
F I C T I O N
the struggles of a criminal love, Raffaele “Ca-
pocchione”, who never met his mother and
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whose father had been killed by the mob,
daydreams of a different neighborhood. He
finds comfort in a theatre workshop among
scripts, colorful clothes and unstable beams
of the abusive barn that surrounds him.
That place becomes a space of life and redemption, until Camorra de-
cides to turn it into a weapons storage…
ALESSANDRO GALLO was born in Naples in 1986. He is a theater di-
rector and editor in Civil Commitment field. He won the national prize
‘Iride, Cava de’ Tirreni’ with his novel Scimmie (more than 7,000 cop-
ies sold) published by Navarra Edi-
tore, that inspired the theater per-
formance di carne. In 2011 he was
curator of the anthology La parola
liberate dalle mafie, and in 2012 of
Italian Shorts. Brevi storie lungo il
bel paese. In 2013 he collaborated
to the creation of the anthology
La giusta parte, testimoni e storie
dell’antimafia by Mario Gelardi
and to La grammatica di Nisida
by Maria Franco, awarded with the
prize ‘Premio Napoli Cultural 2013’.
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Claudio Volpe
LA TRAIETTORIA DELL’AMORE
(Love’s path)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 192 · RELEASE DATE: FEB 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
NOMINATED FOR “PREMIO STREGA” 2017
“It’s wonderful how a young, so young author can be able to
write with such sharp narrative strength”.
Dacia Maraini
Actually, Love’s path is the story of two differ-
ent paths: the one that reunites a brother and a
sister and the one that blossoms between two
F I C T I O N
young women.
After a hit and run, Giuseppe turns to his sis-
ter Andrea for help, even though they drifted
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apart years before since he couldn’t accept her
homosexuality. But now that she lives with her
girlfriend Sara, Andrea has to learn if their love
can survive the weight of her past.
The three of them decide to run together until
they reach a little town somewhere in South-
ern Italy, where their troubles will finally be
unraveled and Giuseppe will find the strength
to deal with his blame.
Using words that every boy and girl in love can easily make their own,
Claudio Volpe wrote a modern, wise and captivating road trip tale.
Born in 1990, CLAUDIO VOLPE moved from
Sicily to Rome, where he studied Law.
In 2011, Dacia Maraini put forward his debut
novel, Il vuoto intorno, for “Premio Strega” lit-
erary prize. The same novel won “Premio Inter-
nazionale Franco Enriquez”. In 2013, his sec-
ond book Stringimi prima che arrivi la notte
has been mentioned for “Premio Strega” by
Renato Minore and Cesare Milanese, winning
the “Napoli Cultural Classic” prize.
With Member of Parliament Anna Paola Concia, in 2014 he wrote
an essay on homosexuality and gender-based violence, Raccontami
l’amore.
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Marino Magliani
LA SPIAGGIA DEI CANI ROMANTICI
(The Beach of Sentimental Dogs)
GENRE: NOVEL · PAGES: 224 · RELEASE DATE: JAN 2011 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
“Who are those sentimental dogs? They’re the chicos piola, the Ar-
gentinian boys that, at the end of the Summer, move to Spain to
work on the Lloret De Mar beaches.”
«Nazione Indiana»
“Marino Magliani is a very important name in our current literary sce-
nario: he is minimalist and poetic, just like Pavese.”
Gordiano Lupi, «Mentelocale»
“Telling the uncertainties of the 80’s, Magliani draws an original dia-
SOLD TO: NETHERLANDS (Prometheus)
F I C T I O N
gram that crosses Argentina, Spain and Italy.”
Full Spanish translation available
Luigi Preziosi, «Bibliomanie»
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Lincoln, Costa Brava. The summer ends when the boys dressed
with gaudy shirts, the chicos piola, finally leave Europe after they
worked on night clubs and bars.
In 1983, Almeja is one of those boys but his true dream is to be-
come a soccer player, and so he and his girlfriend embark on a
different journey, headed for Italy. But it won’t be so easy for them
to forget those endless nights on the beach, a place where people
go to have fun but also a graveyard for many English soldiers.
Thirty years later, a Dutch journalist
decides to search for those boys. And
he will uncover the trails of a past
that seemed buried forever.
MARINO MAGLIANI was born in
1960. He is a novelist and translator
from Spanish and Dutch. He lives in
Netherlands, by the North Sea. His
novels have been published by Siro-
ni, Instar Libri and Longanesi.
Some of his novels have been trans-
lated into Dutch and German.
His next novel will be published by
Chiarelettere in 2018.
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EDIZIONI
Marino Magliani
GENRE: TRAVEL LITERATURE · PAGES: 180 · RELEASE DATE: MAR 2014 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
SOGGIORNO A ZEEWIJK
(A Stay in Zeewijk)
FINALIST AT “L’ALBATROS - CITTÀ DI PALESTRINA” PRIZE FOR TRAVEL LITERATURE
“Soggiorno a Zeewijk is a small gem. There are delightful pages in
this book”.
WINNER OF “FRANCESCO GELMI DI CAPORIACCO” LITERARY PRIZE 2016
«la Repubblica»
“Magliani is a ‘poet of gaze’: his ability to observe is at its best
through the streets of Zeewijk”.
«Diacritica»
Full French and German translations available
F I C T I O N
This book is a walk through the streets of a quarter of the Dutch
sea town of IJmuiden, not far from Amsterdam.
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Built on the sand dunes, every 50 years this town is forced to
change its urban shape. This is the story of a changing landscape,
of houses whose lives are shorter than the ones of their inhabit-
ants. It is also the story of an unexpected encounter, happy and
melancholic at the same time, like anything else in Zeewijk.
It is the novel of an observer but also a map, a travel book between
Holland and Liguria, where the author sets intense pages amongst
hills and orchards.
MARINO MAGLIANI was born in
1960. He is a novelist and translator
from Spanish and Dutch. He lives in
Netherlands, by the North Sea. His
novels have been published by Siro-
ni, Instar Libri and Longanesi.
Some of his novels have been trans-
lated into Dutch and German.
His next novel will be published by
Chiarelettere in 2018.
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Carla Ferguson Barberini
IL METODO STICAZZI
(Sticazzi Living: The Italian Way to Deal with Life)
A SERIES OF 7 BOOKS (so far)
Sticazzi Living When You’re Working · Sticazzi Living When it’s Christmas · Sticazzi Living and the Global Crisis
MORE THAN 70,000 COPIES SOLD
GENRE: HUMOR · RELEASE DATE: 2011-2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
Sticazzi Living · Sticazzi Living 24/7 · Sticazzi Living – The Handbook · Sticazzi Living in the Kitchen ·
“Sticazzi is happiness explained (and taught) in a single word.
Every big step in the Human History was born out of a Sticazzi.”
Beatrice Dondi, «l’Espresso»
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“Sticazzi books will make you invincible.”
Manfredo Liparoti, «la Repubblica»
“A philosophical-commercial phenomenon.
With its Roman origin, Sticazzi is always the last word.”
Davide Turrini, «Il Fatto Quotidiano»
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“A shortcut to happiness.”
Federica Pessot, «Il Pickwick»
Setting an example to handle every struggle of our daily life, a group of men
and women found the perfect word to illustrate what they mean: Sticazzi.
The ultimate 20th century philosophy on how you can nurture your own
happiness, isolating what’s really important from what is just a pain in the
neck. And even when you simply have to put up with that pain, there is always
another way to look at it.
Forget pizza, shoes and Dolce Vita: Sticazzi is the best Italy has to offer.
All over the world, we are facing the same problems: job crisis, mothers-in-
law, ex-lovers and current ones, work colleagues, neighbours, Sunday plans
and major holidays. But everything can be endured with a little bit of self-
mockery and (a lot of) Sticazzi.
Carla Ferguson Barberini compiled a perfect guide to all those who are Stica-
zzi wannabes – and you’re note alone, by the way: Socrates, Rossella O’Hara,
and even Jesus believed in Sticazzi.
Beyond “nevermind”, more than “Hakuna Ma-
tata” and “keep calm and take it easy”, this is
your most delicious and useful cup of tea: Sti-
cazzi, because Italians really do it better.
Despite the girl’s name, CARLA FERGUSON BAR-
BERINI collective welcomes men as well. They are
all professionals in the field of Communication and
Publishing. Since they believe deeply in the power
of their philosophy, the collective would be more
than willing to adapt the Sticazzi books for a world-
wide circulation.
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Paolo Palumbo - Luigi Pomata
SAPORI A COLORI
(ColourfulFlavours:Fightingsicknesswithgoodcoocking)
GENRE: COOKBOOK · PAGES: 126 · RELEASE DATE: FEB 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
LAUNCHED ON NATIONAL TV SHOW “PORTA A PORTA” (RAI 1) BY
BRUNO VESPA, ON 17TH FEBRUARY 2017.
THE 1RST AND UNIQUE COOKBOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN NO
LONGER TASTE FOOD.
The wish of a boy with a serious illness becomes real.
N O N - F I C T I O N
“Love is like good cuisine: special things
come from simple ingredients, but im-
agination makes them amazing”. A joint
work of one of the most famous Italian
chef and Paolo Palumbo, the youngest
ALS sufferer, it is not the classic cook-
book, but it is a hymn to love for cuisine
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and life. They designed recipes to give
“taste” to food that ALS sufferers must
ingest through a feeding tube because
they cannot do it by themselves. This is a
book designed for people with swallowing
disease, dysphagia or other dysfunctions
that prevent a normal nourishment. Most of all, this is the dream come
true for a nineteen-year-old who lost the use of arms as his body fades
away with no clear reason.
PAOLO PALUMBO, 19 years old, worked in several restaurant before discover-
ing his terrible illness. He faced his fate with
courage and he found that despite the extreme
difficulties he can help to relieve the suffering
of ALS people like him or affected by other
diseases.
LUIGI POMATA comes from a family of chefs.
He worked for Michelin-starred-chefs in New
York, London and other cities. In 2003, he rep-
resented Italy at the prestigious Bocuse d’Or,
he won the Cous Cous exposition and took
part in TV shows: “La prova del cuoco”, “La
cucina del Gambero Rosso”, “Alice”. He wrote
several cookbooks.
Today, he is one of the most famous Italian
chefs and he owns the Luigi Pomata Restau-
Barack Obama meets Paolo Palumbo at the
rants in Cagliari. He is considered the “king of “Seeds&Chips – The Global Food Innovation
tuna” based cuisine. Summit”.
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Leo Turrini
SENNA. IN VIAGGIO CON AYRTON
(Senna: A last trip with Ayrton)
GENRE: SPORT · PAGES: 172 · RELEASE DATE: FEB 2014 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
“I’M NOT A CAR, I’M NOT UNBEATABLE;
BUT CAR RACING IS A PART OF ME, OF MY BODY.
FOUR WHEELS, A SEAT, A STEERING WHEEL. THEY’RE MY LIFE”.
PUBLISHED IN JAPAN.
N O N - F I C T I O N
“He was a sincere man, and people knew that.
As a pilot, I can easily say he was the best”.
Felipe Massa
SOLD TO: JAPAN (San-Ei Shobo)
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Three times World’s Champion, one of the greatest pilots of Formula 1 of all times,
Ayrton Senna died in Italy on 1th of May 1994. This book is the story of what hap-
pened on that weekend that changed forever the F1 world, but is also the story of
the man under the pilot’s helmet.
Ayrton Senna left a terrible void, because his talent was unique. But the greatness of
his character crosses the bounds of motoring: involving more than 5 million Brazil-
ians, the chronicles of his funeral sealed a life dedicated to the passion for racing.
Leo Turrini describes his career: the great triumphs and burning defeats, his de-
cency during the competitions and the darker aspects of his personality. Always
overwhelmed by his emotions, Senna was like a comic’s superhero on the racetrack
and a man with a delicate sensibility in his everyday life. People, and not only in his
beloved Brazil, had learned to understand his
double identity: for this reason, on May 1, the
grief was collective, huge and inconsolable.
Beginning at the end, with the last trip on the
plane that hosts Senna’s corpse, this book is
not and does not want to be a biography. It is
more an act of gratitude.
Sport reporter for Sky Tv, LEO TURRINI has
been following the Formula 1 for Italian news-
papers since the early 80s (“Il Resto del Car-
lino”, “La Nazione” and “Il Giorno”). He has
followed nearly 400 Grand Prix Formula 1. He
wrote many books and biographies, such as
Enzo Ferrari. Un eroe italiano (2017); Schu-
macher. La leggenda di un uomo normale
(2014); Bartali. L’uomo che salvò l’italia peda-
lando (2014); Il pirata e il cowboy. Pantani e
Armstrong, le storie maledette (2013).
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Hafez Haidar
LEZIONI DI PACE
(Peace Lessons: Koran, Islam and Terrorism
Explained to my Students)
GENRE: ESSAY · PAGES: 160 · RELEASE DATE: JAN 2018 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
2017 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CANDIDATE
“Hafez’s good tale: ‘Culture is an immense world of love, and it is for everybody’.”
«Corriere della Sera»
“Haidar made the marvels of Koran more accessible to western readers”.
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«la Repubblica»
“Hafez’s true Religion is Love, everlasting and boundless”.
«Il Sole 24 ore»
“Haidar had spent nineteen years on books, translations and seminars to spread
love and tear down the walls of suspicion, hate and violence”.
«Corriere della Sera»
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Hafez Haidar builds up bridges.
As a man, as a scholar, as a writer.
To him, culture is “a redeeming tool which enclose beauty, wisdom and boundless love”.
For this reason, he has been nominated for the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
For his dual nature of man and scholar of both Arab and Christian literature – he
belongs to these two cultural traditions, from which he acquired a wider and more
complete spirituality –, Hafez Haidar is a unique author in the Italian literary scene.
He is considered one of the world’s leading scholars of Monotheistic Religions and
the aim of all his works is to spread intercultural dialogues and to reconcile two
worlds mistakenly opposed, the Islamic and the Christian, in order to demonstrate
the possibility of a peaceful coexistence. His message is a concrete tool “to tear down
the walls of suspicion, hate and violence”.
Through the tale of Koran and Mohammed’s life, he wants to teach his students how
the Islamic fundamentalism is nothing more than a scaring drift of Islam culture,
born out of fanaticism, hunger, ignorance and economic interests.
“A terrorist is the enemy of West and East, he had de-
famed and blemished his religion”.
Academician Emeritus, Ambassador of Human Rights,
Chairman of several national and international Prizes
Committees, Knight of the Italian Republic and Inter-
national Director of the Camerata dei Poeti in Florence,
HAFEZ HAIDAR is a Lebanese poet and writer. He lives in
Italy and he is currently a teacher of Arabic Language and
Literature at the University of Pavia. His best-seller books
have been published by Mondadori, Rizzoli, Piemme and
Fabbri. He edited The Prophet and other works of Kahlil
Gibran, and his translation of The Arabian Nights has
been very appreciated by the literary world.
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Germana Leoni von Dohnanyi
LO STATO PROFONDO
GENRE: CURRENT EVENTS · PAGES: 360 · RELEASE DATE: APR 2017 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
(The Deep State: Tournament of Shadows and
Jihad)
The Orwellian nightmare has never been so close to become
reality: «War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Our ignorance is their strenght».
N O N - F I C T I O N
An essay to read the conflicts of these last decades under a different point of
view; to contextualize the big events of our time not just as isolated events,
but as pieces of a bigger puzzle; to reveal the red line which tie all the conflicts
of the post-war period: Indochina, Afghanistan, Caucasus, Balkans, Central
America and Middle East. A puzzle, once recomposed, that shows off a very
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different reality from how it is generally perceived: a big geopolitics project
for the control of Eurasia and its energetic resources.
The Anglo-Americans call it The Great Game, the Russians the Tournament
of Shadows. But the goal remains the same: global supremacy.
What emerges from this book is the existence of the Deep State, the National
Security State – what the «New York Times» report and Pulitzer winner Dana
Priest defined “A second parallel and top-secret government, visible only to
a carefully selected group of people”.
Daughter-in-law of Klaus von Dohnányi,
former First Mayor and Minister-Presi-
dent of Hamburg, GERMANA LEONI VON
DOHNÁNYI has been a reporter from Asia
for Indro Montanelli’s «il Giornale» and for
«L’Indipendente». She collaborated with
«Panorama» and «Il Borghese», the german
radio station Westdeutscher Rundfunk,
«Greenpeace Magazine» (Hamburg) and
more recently with «Voce del Ribelle» Mas-
simo Fini’s newspaper. She is co-author
of Schmutzige Geschaefte und Heiliger
Krieg (Pendo Verlag, Zurich, 2002), Soma-
lia (Editori Riuniti, Italy, 2002); she is the
author of Bush and Bush (Editori Riuniti,
Italy, 2006) and Rapporto Medusa (Mursia,
Italy, 2012).
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Laura Larcan
ROMA, LE SCOPERTE MAI RACCON-
GENRE: HISTORY · PAGES: 174 · RELEASE DATE: JUL 2016 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
TATE
(Rome, the Untold Discoveries)
This book is the proof that Rome is full of secrets, even to
this day. A fascinating collection of stories made of fortuity
N O N - F I C T I O N
and experience.
Gladiator’s grave, the shoes under the Pyramid, Commodo
theater, the little mouse who lived inside Apollo’s head, the
man with the jaw joined with the skull, “the sea” deep in the
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Catabombs. These are just some of the most recent and in-
credible discoveries that Laura Larcan reported on Italian
newspapers.
LAURA LARCAN writes on «il
Messaggero», «la Repubblica»
and «National Geographic».
In 2014, she won the “Europe-
an Character for journalism”
prize and the international
prize “Argil Uomo Europeo
2014”
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Matteo Meschiari
GENRE: TRAVEL LITERATURE · PAGES: 144 · RELEASE DATE: OCT 2016 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
ARTICO NERO
(Black Arctic)
The long night of Ice People.
“Black Arctic deals with burning matters: stories of nomadic
N O N - F I C T I O N
people forced to live as sedentary”.
Vincenzo Sori, «Il lavoro editoriale»
Set in Canada, Norway, Siberia and Greenland, seven stories
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from a black and dying Arctic: places where a culture’s de-
struction is revealing the worst-case scenario.
A novel-essay that is a political and social investigation of a
new way to tell the truth: antropofiction.
MATTEO MESCHIARI (1968)
teaches Anthropology and Geog-
raphy at the University of Paler-
mo. His fields of interest include:
landscapes in literature, wilder-
ness and how different com-
munities perceive and live their
habitat. Sellerio, Liguori and
Quodlibet have published his re-
searches. In 1997, he founded the
Italian branch of Institut Interna-
tional de Géopoétique, created by
the Scottish poet Kenneth White.
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Filippo Ambrosini
I CENTO GIORNI. L’ULTIMA AVVEN-
GENRE: HISTORY · PAGES: 280 · RELEASE DATE: DEC 2015 · LANGUAGE: ITALIAN · RIGHTS: WORLD
TURA DI NAPOLEONE
(One Hundred Days. Napoleon’s Last Adventure)
N O N - F I C T I O N
“There was really a chance that Napoleon could win that battle?
Our answer is no. Why? It was because of Wellington? Or Blücher?
No: it was God’s will.
Napoleon’s victory at Waterloo was not admissible by the law of
XIX century. There was no place for him in the events that would
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have followed and his excessive importance was unsettling the
balance of the universe. His downfall was decided, he was an ob-
stacle to God.
Waterloo was not a battle: it was a turning point in the eyes of the
universe.”
FILIPPO AMBROSINI pub-
lished studies and papers on
French Revolution and First
French Empire, including
Piemonte giacobino e na-
poleonico (Bompiani, 2000),
L’ombra della Restaurazione.
Cospiratori, riformisti e reazi-
onari in Piemonte e Liguria
(1814-1831) (Il Punto, 2002)
and Carlo Alberto Re (Il Cap-
ricorno, 2004).
With his son Francesco he
wrote a novel in 2014, L’ussaro
e Margherita. Romanzo giac-
obino (Neos edizioni).
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