Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. He is the
author of many 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.
Translated from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt. Hunt divides his time
between Italy and Britain. His translations include Niccolò
Ammaniti's 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.
An exquisite parable
* * Daily Telegraph * *
A deft masterpiece with never a false note
* * Guardian * *
Ammaniti's prose is faultless from the first
* * Independent on Sunday * *
The new Italian word for talent is Ammaniti
* * The Times * *
Beneath this simplicity, Ammaniti weaves in the fairytale metaphors
we know so well, giving the novel a haunting profundity
* * Sunday Herald * *
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