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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 he dare not tell a soul. It is a secret that will force Michele to question everything and everyone around him.
An unputdownable thriller, I'm Not Scared is also a devastatingly authentic portrayal of childhood and the tension when it must join the adult world.

Produktbeschreibung
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 he dare not tell a soul. It is a secret that will force Michele to question everything and everyone around him.

An unputdownable thriller, I'm Not Scared is also a devastatingly authentic portrayal of childhood and the tension when it must join the adult world.
Autorenporträt
Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. He is the author of seven novels 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 T ime on My Hands .
Rezensionen
A deft masterpiece with never a false note. Guardian