I'm Not Scared

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.

About the author

Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. He is the author of six novels translated into English and two short story collections. Several of his novels have been adapted for film, including Steal You Away, which was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, The Crossroads, winner of the Premio Strega Prize 2007, and the international bestseller I'm Not Scared, which won the prestigious Italian Viareggio-Repaci Prize for Fiction and has been translated into thirty-five languages.Jonathan Hunt is an Italian translator. He divides his time between Italy and Britain. His translations include Niccolò Ammaniti's I'm Not Scared, The Crossroads and Steal You Away, Nicolai Lilin's Siberian Education, Luca Rastello's I Am the Market and Giorgio Vasta's Time on My Hands.

Product details

• Authors: Niccolo Ammaniti, Niccolò Ammaniti
• Assisted by: Jonathan Hunt (Translation), Hunt Jonathan (Translation)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.06.2016
• EAN: 9781782117155
• ISBN: 978-1-78211-715-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: The Canons; Canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Italienische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / General, Fiction in translation, Italian novels in translation; Italian writers, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary