Niccolo Ammaniti

Kylee Doust

Attending a gala at the private home of a real estate magnate, a neurotic author stumbles on the activities of a satanic sect planning to launch itself into infamy by staging an apocalyptic meltdown at the height of the festivities.

Let the Games Begin

I'm Not Scared

Jonathan Hunt

Growing up in a tiny, remote Italian village, Pietro is ignored by his parents and suffers the torment of bullies, with only his best friend Gloria for solace, but the arrival of an aging playboy, Graziano Biglia, turns both of their lives upside down and prompts Pietro to realize that only by leaving home can he become the man he should be. Reprint.

I'll Steal You Away

Come dio comanda

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he dare not tell a soul. It is a secret that will force Michele to question everything and everyone around him, and will bring his innocent world toppling down. An unputdownable thriller, I'm Not Scared has become a contemporary classic in Italian literature, read and celebrated the world over.

Sicile, 2020. Un virus mortel, "la Rouge", a déferlé sur l'Europe quatre ans auparavant et décimé la population adulte ; les jeunes, eux, sont protégés jusqu'à l'âge de la puberté. Anna se retrouve seule avec Astor, son petit frère de quatre ans. Elle doit affronter le monde extérieur avec ses cadavres, ses charognards, ses chiens errants et affamés, l'odeur pestilentielle, pour trouver, quand il en reste, des médicaments, des bougies, des piles, des boîtes de conserve, avec comme unique guide dans cette lutte pour la survie, le cahier d'instructions que lui a légué leur mère avant d'être emportée par la maladie. Lorsqu'Astor disparaît, Anna part à sa recherche, prête à défier les bandes d'enfants sauvages qui errent à travers les rues désertes, les centres commerciaux et les bois. Mais l'ordre appartient au passé et les règles d'autrefois ont été oubliées. Pour réussir à sauver Astor, Anna va devoir en inventer de nouvelles, parcourant ce monde à l'abandon où la nature a repris ses droits, ne laissant que les vestiges d'une civilisation qui a couru à sa propre perte. Une véritable odyssée des temps modernes où s'entremêlent lumière et ténèbres, un duel permanent entre la vie et la mort.

Anna

Lorenzo Cuni is a fourteen-year-old loner. His wealthy parents think he is away on a school skiing trip, but, in fact, he has stowed himself away in a rarely visited cellar of his parents’ house. Surrounded by video games and tinned food, he is perfectly content in his isolation. Then he gets an unexpected visit from his estranged half-sister, Olivia. Olivia is in her twenties, she’s addicted to heroin, and she needs Lorenzo’s help. Against his better judgment, Lorenzo lets her stay. Over the next week, they form an intense bond. This brief encounter will change the course of both of their lives. From the acclaimed author of I’m Not Scared, this is a compulsive exploration of what families keep behind locked doors.

Niccolo Ammaniti

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