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Niccolò Vivarelli

Slalom Manni Editori 2013 144 pp. 13,00 euro

After several years of heroin, the young Leandro Serotini has been «clean» for eight months thanks to the drug rehabilitation centre «Il Cantiere». During his first day off he comes back home in Florence and discovers by accident that the murder of a junkie, about which all the media are talking, has been committed in the centre. And the corpse found in a dumpster will not be the only one. Torn between the desire to complete its recovery path without distractions, and track down the culprits, Leandro falls in love with a charming and determined journalist who wants to discover what is hidden in the centre, with its coercive ways, psychologically and physically to the limit, and its leader, an ambiguous and charismatic character. !

Niccolò Vivarelli was born in Florence in 1962 to an American mother and an Italian father. He graduated in comparative literature at the New York University and has lived for twenty years in Rome where he currently works as correspondent for Variety the LA magazine worldwide known as «The Bible of the show».

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Antonello Carbone A Taormina, d’inverno Manni Editori 2013 144 pp. 14,00 euro

After the New Year, Taormina is empty but quiet doesn’t come back. The mysterious death of Efre Vazzini, a scion of a powerful family, at dawn on a cold day in January, shakes the undisturbed life of the city and the comforting routine of journalist Giacomo Cassisi. He decides to investigate relying on his intuition, gathering clues in the lyrics of a particular song or in a painting, in the title of a novel or in a culinary recipe. However the background of his research is especially a woman’s face – he does not know who the portrait represents but he has the feeling to know her well. A rich universe of women accompanies Cassisi in this black story: his best friend Elena, the reliable finisher Angela, the seductive Irina, the sophisticated Baroness Rosalia, his colleague Simona, and the indecipherable Eylis. Anyway everyone feels alone in this crowd.

Antonello Carbone lives and works in Catania as a journalist for Sicilia Rai news. He graduated in Modern Literature and began his career in 1986 with «L’espresso sera». He collaborated among others with «La Sicilia» and «La vita in diretta». This is his debut novel.

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Matteo Ferrario

Buia FERNANDEL 2014 128 pp. 12 euro

Buia was born by mistake. Also her name is the result of an accidental mix of consonants made by a registry office of a small town in the hinterland of Milan. The narrator, a shy young man that unlike Buia was strongly desired but now has to deal with the high expectations of his parents, meets her at school and immediately falls in love. Their paths separate when his family decide to send him to a private college. Since then, the only news that he gets from Buia are the rumours of the town after a dramatic night, the facts of which end up on the pages of a local news: the girl – now a rebel - is even considered the main responsible for an accident in which her father risked to die. The two protagonists meet again by chance, when they are almost thirty. He has a future already mapped out in his family business and a relationship doomed soon to a marriage. She is a security guard that leads an independent, lonely and unattached life, with a secret that she has not yet been able to share with anyone…

Matteo Ferrario is born in 1975 in the province of Milan where he lives and works. Architect and journalist, he collaborates with building and sustainable ecology magazines. Ferrario has published short stories into the anthologies Via dei matti numero zero (Terre di mezzo, 2002) and Racconti diversi (Stampa alternativa, 2004). Buia is his first novel.

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Flaviano BianchiniIn Tibet. Un viaggio clandestinoIbis edizioni140x210 mm190 pages18,00 euro

3rd reprint

2010 Chatwin Award

In the company of pilgrims, merchants and nomads, Bianchini tells hisfascinating adventure of clandestine in a land of immense horizons and majesticmountains. From the Kailash to Lhasa, looking for the traces of his friend Palden,a monk escaped from his land where he had suffered arrests and torture. A new co-edition of BSF and Ibis.

Flaviano Bianchini after a degree in Environmental Scienceand Technology earned a master's degree in Human Rightsand Conflict Management at Scuola Superiore S. Anna of Pisa.He works in international cooperation and human rightsprojects, and is member Latin-American Peacelink(www.peacelink.it). Candidate for the 2013 UN Human RightsAward.

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Alberto PrunettiASBESTOSA working class storyAMIANTOUna storia operaia

Agenzia XPages: 160Price: e 13,00ISBN: 978-88-95029-65-8

I’m just telling you: read this book. This novel is as huge as a house, the house missing to us, the home we don’t have. Wu MingA book that is both terrible and beautiful. Pain, amusement, suffering, reflection, sharing. A cloud of interchanging and conflicting feelings, that only a true writer is capable of condensing. From the preface by Valerio Evangelisti

This is the story of Renato, a metalworker that grew up in the second postwar and that startedto work when he was 14 years old. A worker that melted electrodes in a storm of sparkles, justfew steps away huge petrol cisterns. A man who breathed zinc, lead and a good share of theMendeleev elements table, until an asbestos fibre – a material that always surrounded him –found its way into his chest. Then, right when he stopped working, that fibre started to darkenhis cells, eating his neuronal matter. A rust that he couldn’t smooth down, a brain damage thatcouldn’t be sealed.Asbestos is a wild race in memory, between of the iron industries of Piombino, Tuscany, andthe infamous Taranto’s area, from the Liguria refineries to the factories of Casale Monferrato;between street soccer and Sunday fights along the via Aurelia. A working-class Family Sayingsfeaturing electric cables gone wild and sarcastic anecdotes from the workers’ world.Popular epic meeting investigative report, a book that reopens a never-healed wound, writtenby a narrative voice that reclaims attention.

Alberto Prunetti is born in Piombino in 1973. His father was a welder and a pipe fitter. Heis the author of the novels Potassa, L’arte della fuga and Il fiorista di Perón.

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Paola AgostoniLA FIDANZATA DI GODZILLALA FIDANZATA DI GODZILLAGodzilla's SweetheartNovel

Agenzia X Forthcoming : november 2013Pages: 180Retail price: 13,00 euroSoftcover - cm. 14x21

Milan, early 1990s. Mina, a slender and too flashy woman, seems at ease in the glittering world of fashion. She is a creative designer and frequents the right people: the disco Plastic and the Pergola squat, the parades of big fashion designers, aperitifs in the coolest bars and cocaine-dusted DJ sets. Her friends are emerging filmmaker, rappers destined to climb the top and would-be artists eager to compromise with the market. But the story of Mina has different roots. Twenty years earlier, in the storm of the seventies, she was a clumsy and insecure girl, coming from a fundamentalist Catholic family thet did not let her breath. Mina, however, had been able to rebel by absorbing the values of a truly revolutionary environment, attending the outlaws of her suburb, the last hippies and the first punks. The novel shows these two worlds - which alternates the fragility and the desire of freedom of her past with irony of the frivolity and the defeat of her present. To keep the ranks of her life is Godzilla, her boyfriend, whose nickname becomes a tragic prophecy - from an eccentric and subversive monster to a horrid creature subservient to the power of money.

A new literary voice with a personal style, a fresh look at two contradictory decades of the recent history.

Paola Agostoni, born in Milan during the economic boom, has fought for twenty years with the keyboard before coming out with this Godzillian novel. Although she argues that Mina is not her alter-ego, the publisher is not so sure of this.



Andrea ScarabelliLOTTA’S SPEEDNovelLA VELOCITÀ DI LOTTARomanzo

AgenziaXPages: 192Price: e 12,00ISBN: 978-88-95029-71-9

Two generations that have learned how to do without a futurecompare themselves. From a fresh new literary voice, an up-to-date

novel on young people’s condition under recession in Italy.

“I can’t see a thing, rage is dust cutting my eyes. I swear it. I’ll never work. I won’t go anywhere.Want to live so fast that things loose their bleak outlines in the quickening.”The meat grinder of temporary work creativity is milling the last talent stockpiles stowed by Diego, a thirty-year-old that doesn’t want to fall in the throes of depression but has no idea how to avoid them. Lotta (nickname for Carlotta, that in Italian means struggle), a kleptomaniac teenager with multicoloured dyed hair, is the thunder of rebellious recklessness that tears the black clouds of inertness apart. Lotta has to realize against who she should aim her mercurial load of energy. Diego needs a sparkle to take his life back. But striking the loathed suburbs of provenance or the cutting-edge tertiary offices is not enough. On their way they’ll run into much more treacherous enemies: lies broadcasted by press agencies, murderous banks, jails that hold love captive. Much further than they ever dared to dream, they will set a media fire alight that will burn every certitude.Adventure is no longer a game, and complications gather a maelstrom speed. A debut that is corrosive as the early Palahniuk novels and spellbinding as a present-time Zazie in the metro, with a writing polished up in its slightest details, run through by high-voltage electric current.

Andrea Scarabelli - born in Milan in 1983 - has published short stories, essays and reviews on the Italian editions of “Rolling Stone” and “GQ” and on the newspaper “il manifesto”.This is his first novel.



Andrea VismaraIddu. Dieci vite per il dio del Iddu. Dieci vite per il dio del fuocofuocoTen lives to the god of fire

edizionispartaco Forthcoming : november 2013 13x20 cm10 euro

• A novel full of tension and rhythm.• An international setting from London to Los Angeles, from Milan to Rome, from Chile to Australia to the island of Stromboli.• The author, an accomplished Roman musician, DJ and photographer, portrays the characters with true mastery making them alive and vibrant on the sheet.JANET wants a loveHANS is haunted by a rare music recordCONSUELO has a missionJENNA is looking for a noteKEVIN chases his fatherVANESSA demands justiceANTOINE longs for a retreatRICHARD wants a trampolineYAMI aspires to a jobINGRID invokes a responseTen characters, ten urgencies, ten stories and ten ways to hear: from four corners of the Earth,united and driven by a personal research, converge to Stromboli to find that all they came well beyond their original destination. Everyone leaves his/her past behind and finally looks ahead.A gripping novel made of roads that cross each other.

Andrea Vismara (1965) lives and works between Rome and Florence



Paolo Pasi

Il sabotatore di campane

Edizioni Spartaco – 2013

200 pages

“When he reached the church, he was surprised to admire the bare superiority of that ancient building, maybe the only one in the village. The presence of living men was still perceivable. Hypocrisy was in the symbols. The stocky bell tower soared towards the sky with a clunky leap… it was too clung to the foundations to evoke the ascent spirit”.

The mayor and his council members are worried: their population declines and they will risk to lose their power if the village is downgraded to a mountain community hamlet. But an anarchic clockmaker will spotlight Roccapelata. He travels to switch off God's voice in remembrance of a forgotten massacre. But this time, he is discovered by the parish priest who, after a scuffle, falls down the stairs and dies. The anarchist gives himself up. But no one believes him. All the inhabitants go to Astolfo Carugis, the ambitious magistrate who coordinates the investigation. They all take responsibility for what happened just to gain popularity. So the aspiring perpetrators draw the media attention on the dying village. Gaetano will have to go back to his old memories to escape madness, a journey that, from the early 70s, has brought him to the last bell tower and to that fatal, senseless epilogue. Thanks to the rewriting of his memories he will find all the answers he needs, and among these Emma occupies a special place. A grotesque and black story about a fleeing utopia and an illusory reality.

PAOLO PASI (1963, Milan) is a RAI TV reporter and a writer. He has won the Ilaria Alpi TV award and the Giallomilanese Literary Award. In 2000, he published his first short story collection Ultimi messaggi dalla città (preface by Dan Fante). In 2009, for Edizioni Spartaco he published the novel Memorie di un sognatore abusivo, widely appreciated by the press and in 2011 the short story collection E il cane parlante disse bang. Paolo Pasi is also a guitarist and a composer: he has written lyrics and music of the nine songs of his CD Fuori dagli schemi. He is a member of the panel for the Piero Ciampi Music Award.

Memorie di un sognatore abusivo E il cane parlante disse bang

Per segnare bisogna tirare in porta



Vito FaenzaL’isola dei fiori di capperoEdizioni Spartaco 2013120 pages

“On coming out of school, just entered the car, she told Him: «I don't want to see you any more. I don't want to continue…». She used big words for a small, insignificant story. Anna thought she could easily put an end to their relationship, without problems.But His gaze became cruel. For some endless moments He told nothing, not a word. Suddenly He speeded up and drove at full speed for kilometers. Then he stopped in a country road. He turned towards her and held a gun on her stomach: «I'll kill you»”.

Anna was only 13 when the boss' son noticed her. Attracted by his powerful cars, by his presents and by the respect commanded, she accepts his attentions. But this mistake turns into a heavy chain that only a young law student, Giovanni, will be able to break. A crime news inspires a passionate love story told by an attentive observer of the world of gangsters- The plot, based on a true story, describes what happens in Southern, and sometimes, in the whole Italy. Corrupt politicians, Camorra creeping in the corridors of power, clan wars, attacks and murders, fear choking the voice of those who are too weak to rebel. And then law, that is hardly able to restore order and that sometimes has to overdo to obtain a partial justice. No heroes. No winners. Only a struggle to survive the others.

VITO FAENZA (1948), journalist and essayist. He has worked for l'Unità, Panorama, Il messaggero. He contributes to the radio agency Area and to the press agency Agi. He has been working for Corriere del Mezzogiorno/Corriere della Sera since 2000. Faenza has written many essays on organized crime and national and international terrorism. From 2004 to 2010 he was the secretary of the Camorra and Illegality Observatory and editor of its monthly bulletin.

• «L'isola dei fiori di cappero” (The island of caper flowers) by Vito Faenza is an enthralling novel. An extraordinary story, suspended between hope and reality; between crime news and “neurotic” storyline as those by Agatha Christie, that enchants the reader from the first line to the last one» (La Repubblica).



Attilio Coco

Ho una storia per te

Edizioni Spartaco 2013

175 pages

«Attilio Coco writes an enthralling novel showing that friendship can weave a story » (Sonia Oloferni, la Repubblica)

«Attilio Coco's novel is a graceful fresco of a period that Italy has notforgotten yet» (Le Monde Diplomatique)

Which eyes has the past got? It has got those of Duilio Foresti, 80 years, an ex-projectionist of a neighbourhood cinema, nom de guerre Wolf. But also those of a police officer, Amedeo Biagianti, victim of a partisans' ambush. Their eyes meet a few seconds after the shot that binds their destinies. Duilio's life crystallizes in that moment. Now his thirty-year friendship with the fifty-year-old writer Pietro Mattei is shaken by that news that seems to come from one of many novels about Resistance that he has studied. But this is a different story, this is «life… that bare, grievous, painful and wonderful life that writing sometimes gathers but against which it often protects». I've got a Story for You is a touching novel dealing with a crucial period in Italian history, a private narration that can unveil unexpected destinies and can link together the story of a friendship and that one of an entire nation. And finally the torch passes on from a generation to another to let the truth become tale «in this time so annoyed with memory, in this Country that risks to forget the certainties offered by History».

ATTILIO COCO (1958, Basilicata) is a high school Italian and History teacher and a film critic. He lives and works in Rome. He has been interested in film critics since the early nineties, writing for the Giornale di Napoli and for the magazine Segnocinema. He has published some essays on Pier Paolo Pasolini and the films never shot by the Italian director, the Italian cinema of the nineties, Clint Eastwood's acting strategies, American television series, the relationship between Italian cinema and country world.

He is also a teacher at Mim (Master dell'immaginario) of Morris, Casini&Partners in Rome. He has published Sguardi d'autore. Visioni e immagini cinematografiche della Basilicata (Pianeta Libro Editore 2000) about Francesco Rosi's and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Southern Italy cinema. He is the author of the essay La passione di Cristo ovvero lo Spazio e il Tempo della Visione appeared in Il cinema di Mel Gibson, edited by Fabio Zanello (Edizioni Il Foglio 2004). He has contributed to the 12th volume of Storia del cinema italiano, edited by Flavio De Bernardinis (Marsilio - Edizioni di Bianco & Nero 2009). He has got a personal blog (www.attiliococo.blogspot.com) where he talks about books and his experience as a reader.



Maurizio de Giovanni

Gli altri fantasmi

Edizioni Spartaco 2013

72 pages

“I walk for hours, under rain or sun, cold or heat. I walk through

roads that I don't know, brushing by hurried people, laden with

packages and thoughts, and I can't believe that they don't understand,

that they don't stop in front of me, their hand on the mouth, their

eyes wide open on the abyss of my suffering. But is it not clear in my

gaze? Is it not clear in my features, in my dirty hair, in my wrongly

bottomed up shirt? In my neglected beard, in my bags under the eyes,

in my untied shoes?”

In the detective novels written by Maurizio de Giovanni, the spirits reveal the last moments of the livesof killed men. In the collection Gli altri fantasmi (The other ghosts), written for theatre, these presences prevail and mingle with the real characters. They are all tormented souls, the souls of a town.

«This is Naples - de Giovanni says -: millions of people in a very small area, each one with their own

memories, their own nearest and dearest, their stubborn desire to survive everything, even themselves».

The director Francesco Saponaro says that «in this trilogy about suspension between life and death

there is the town, with its desires and its unhealed wounds». You can chance upon a barefoot little girl

and her big eyes that don't shed tears, who runs through the alleys of the Spanish quarter in the early

1900's, and who sees her mother's phantom in an Our Lady's face: in La canzone di Filomena, de

Giovanni's prose becomes poetry of pain. In Storia di Papo e Bimbomio, a strong, painful short story, defined infamous by the actor Tony Laudadio, a father, through the pupils of an old blind man, recalls

all his sufferings, from the disease to the death of his son. La casa è il mio regno produces a bitter smile and winks at an Eduardo de Filippo's coffee, one of the great masters of Italian theatre. This

time, the main character is the lethal poison of hate that makes a man and a woman unhappy but close

for eternity.

MAURIZIO DE GIOVANNI was born in 1958 in Naples, where he lives and works. He started writing in 2005 when he also won a literary contest for up-and-

coming detective-story writers with a short story whose main character is the

police commissioner Ricciardi. Ricciardi's novels, published by Einaudi Stile

Libero, are translated in Germany, Spain, France, England and USA. In 2012, his

Il metodo del coccodrillo was published by Mondadori.

He has also written short stories about football and in particular about Napoli Football Club, of which

he is a keen supporter. The anthology Per segnare bisogna tirare in porta published by Edizioni Spartaco, includes the short story La palla del Negro that deals with the legendary goal scored by Diego Armando Maradona.



Alessandro BresolinGesti Convulsi

Edizioni Spartaco 2013144 pages

“Christian lent over the record player and laid a long-playing record on the turntable. The speakers started croaking some rough new wave

sounds.«Do you remember?».

«Of course. Give me the sleeve».It unleashed an avalanche of memories… that was a piece by their

group, the Convulsive Gestures”.

An imaginary punk-new wave band of the 80s is the thread that connects the stories of

five young men. What has become of them? How are they today? Love and jealousy, wealth and feeling of emptiness, great ambitions and wicked revenges: five stories representing an entire generation and society on the whole. Against the backdrop, a diverse district between Veneto and Lombardy: a town with its nice old centre,

surrounded by valleys and mountain villages, but also by wide flat suburbs.There is Denis, with his “white night” watching over his dead father; Gianni, who loses his head over a pc monitor and a woman's skirt; Christian, a talented sculptor, who sells hallucinogenic mushrooms; Federico, divided between love and conformism; Ilario, a

spoilt and wealthy cyclist, who is blackmailed. And what if “no future” had become their future? Life is unpredictable…

ALESSANDRO BRESOLIN (1970) is a writer, an essayist and a translator. For

Edizioni Spartaco, he has edited the Ignazio Silone's essays collection Le cose

per cui mi batto and he has translated the novels Ambizione nel deserto by Albert Cossery, La principessa del deserto di mezzo by Hamid Skif, Ammazza

un bastardo! and La strega mascherata by Colonel Durruti, Il sangue di Fatima by Armand Julia. His firts novel, La cirrosi apatica, was published by

Editrice Zona in 2008. He has also worked for Lo Straniero, Rai Radio3, Il Manifesto, Carmillaonline.

“If we talked about rounds, building speculation, politics and thievishness, adultery, drugs, doping,

racism, immigration, alcoholism, families and economic crisis, trash TV, we would find a lot of

different novels of social criticism. But all these themes can be found in Gesti Convulsi (Convulsive

Gestures), a sort of fresco of the life of five young men in today's Veneto” (Fahrenheit RAI Radio3)



Massimo VitaliSe son rose

FernandelPagine : 176Prezzo : 13,00 €ISBN : 978-88-95865-56-0

Take the belly of a man, Roversi. Add a wife, a job and two hundreds pounds of habits. Now be rude: remove wife, work and habits. On the other hand, lock the two hundreds pounds in the ladies toilet of the Corallo movie theatre.Roversi is determined not to come out until he has completed the period of reflection that many have suggested him to take, so the rest of the world has to look for him: priests, maniacs, photographers, dogs, transvestites, psychoanalysts, blacksmiths, door-to-door salesmen. And women, of course.Roversi gives audience to everybody, but he will not open the door to anyone.

Massimo Vitali is born in Bologna in 1978. By day he works at the complaints department of a Swedish multinational thet is not Ikea. In the evening he is swimming teacher in a pool where you can grow mushrooms. In 2009 he won the Subway Literature Award with his story "Compensation (small love story)." In 2010, his story "The patient love of boomerang" was included in the anthology 30 secondi di universo ( Marcos y Marcos ). In the same year Fernandel published his debut novel, L'amore non si dice. Since 2011 he has been the host of the programme “Ufficio Reclami” on Radio City Fujiko 103.1 FM.Although much of his time he is walking in the clouds, that does not mean he has dropped with the latter rain.



Donata VittaniAllegra

Ibis 201213 x 21 cm 158 pagesISBN: 978887164413412.00 euro

“… Although her teacher had repeatedly emphasized that only from outside the tango appears a sensual dance, while it is a meeting of souls, Alice was uncomfortable with the extreme closeness with unknown men, whose souls she could not feel at all, while from their bodies she clearly felt the smell of sweat and just finished dinner. She was stiff and awkward in her futile attempt to move with ease. As a palo borracho, the 'drunk trees' in Buenos Aires, clumsy and awkward in a trunk swollen and full of thorns.”The search for the friend disappeared in Buenos Aires for the forty year old Alice becomes a journey between past and present, old and new loves, painful discoveries and unexpected returns. At the junction between the everyday life in the Lombard province and the extraordinary nature of the Argentine capital.A short text to be read all in one breath, a direct style that alternates narration, flashbacks and close dialogue, which is essential for the complicity of the reader. Up to the end.

Professor and researcher at the Academy of Communication of Milan for twelve years, Donata Vittani has always supported her teaching activity with the work of copy editor for publishing houses, editorial and advertising agencies and cultural associations. She currently lives and works in Como, and is copywriter for JDM communication, a company of which she is a partner and co-founder. Allegra is her first novel.



Anna RuchatIl malinteso

Ibis 201211 x17 cm56 pagesISBN: 97888716439468.00 euro

“After the first visit to the old factory, I keep coming back there, in the days and weeks that follow. The apocalyptic background of ruined walls, piles of rubble, remains of rails inside the sheds, with its shacks made of boards and old doors taken from construction sites and with dozens of beggars of all kinds: browny men and bullies, very young mothers and grandmothers, countless children, with the smell of chemical fumes and the squeak of mice, a stone's throw from my house, exert a strong call on me, almost an attraction that I do not want to fight but I'm trying to narrow down as far as I can.” Around us there are invisible groups of people who live on the edge of our richest cities. The figure easier to point at, is that of the Roma, the gypsy, of course. Their families pass next to us, show up and disappear in the fields that are named after them - “campi zingari”, or in the ruins of abandoned factories and crumbling warehouses, remains of an industrial era long gone.

Talking to them, meeting them, hearing their stories, let them emerge from the darkness: stories, reflections, poems - this is the book that comes out from this encounter.

Anna Ruchat, writer and translator, has been awarded with the Premio Chiara and the Schiller Prize for her stories collected int the book In questa vita (2005). Her second book is entitled Volo in ombra (2010). As a translator she has edited several editions of German authors, including that of Klemperer's diaries. For Ibis, she has been the editor of the works bt Wilhelm, Mühlenweg, Dorn and Zweig. Anna Ruchat is also professor at the school for interpreters and translators in Milan.



Maria SepaMilano downtownNovel

Piero Manni editore

Forthcoming September 2013

184 pages

€ 14,00

ISBN 978-88-6266-501-8

The lives of Giuseppe, Caterina, Corrado and Marta intersect, in their works and loves,

in the background of Milan, a city that is a character in itself. The crossroad of

infidelities, children, elegant houses and society parties is a small bar owned by an elderly

widower who keep it open all night so as not to be alone, and where the characters

between a breakfast or a drink tell their stories.

A novel in which each character strongly emerges with his/her feelings- as in the

tradition of the best North American literature – a new voice in the Italian literary

scene.

“Milano centro, una sera d’inverno. Una pioggerella gelida e quasi impercettibile cade sulla città

sfocando i contorni dei palazzi, soprattutto ai piani alti, stemperando e mescolando le luci gialle e blu-grigiastre che provengono dalle finestre o dalle rade automobili, e quelle argentate dei lampioni. In mezzo al viale una fila di alberi con i nudi rami neri storti disegna un fitto reticolato nel cielo scuro.”

Maria Sepa, born in 1953, lives in Milan and in the United States, where she taught at various universities. She writes for

the book review column of "Internazionale", translates for the

"Corriere della Sera" and is literary scout for Rizzoli, Maria

Sepa is professor of Italian literature at IES (Institute for the

International Education).



Fabio Rizzoli Almanacco dei giorni migliori

(INVERNO) 192 pages

14,00 €Almanacco dei giorni migliori

(PRIMAVERA) 200 pages

14,00 €Fernandel edizioni

Just two months after its release, the first volume of this “Almanac of the best days” collected over thirty enthusiastic reviews and services in print, radio, TV and the web, and was almost immediately reprinted. Now Fabio Rizzoli comes back with “Winter”, the second season of his quartet. 91 additional very short stories, from December 21 to March 20, characterized by his lightness and impertinent irony. Also in this volume each story is preceded by advice of vision, listening and reading and is followed by an exhortation to act.What will the reader find in these pages? A known journalist who commits a murder, the aberrant consequences of teleworking, Hamlet's soliloquy from the skull's point of view, a real estate agent specializing in the sale of homes in which they occurred heinous crimes, a corruption case among the Phoenicians, the sexual fantasies of a man riding his exercise bike ...

Fabio Rizzoli was born in Bologna in 1974, where he lives. After working in the field of communication and marketing, he has directed for some years Alessio Roberti Editore, a publishing house specializing in books on corporate training. Currently he works as a creative consultant and ghostwriter, and writes for anumber of newspapers and magazines Il Sole 24 Ore, Repubblica, il Venerdì di Repubblica and Mucchio Selvaggio.



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