I'm Not Scared

Niccolò Ammaniti

Canongate, 2003 - 200 pagine

The hottest summer of the twentieth century. A tiny community of five houses in the middle of wheat fields. While the adults shelter indoors, six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. In the midst of that sea of golden wheat, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dare not tell anyone about it. To come to terms with what he finds, he will have to draw strength from his own imagination and sense of humanity. The reader witnesses a dual story: the one that is seen through Michele's eyes, and the tragedy involving the adults of this isolated hamlet. The result is an immensely powerful, lyrical and skilfully narrated novel, reminiscent of Stephen King's Stand By Me.

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Recensione dell'utente  - DeltaQueen50 - LibraryThing

I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti is a coming of age story, a suspense-thriller and a tale of shattered innocence. I was drawn into this story immediately by first the setting, the hot dry summer of ...

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Recensione dell'utente  - jayne_charles - LibraryThing

I liked the simplicity of this, the way the prose transports you to a tiny village community in Italy where you can feel the dust and smell the grass and yet doesn't include long descriptive passages ...

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo: I'm Not Scared
• Autore: Niccolò Ammaniti
• tradotto da: Jonathan Hunt
• Editore: Canongate, 2003
• ISBN: 1841952974, 9781841952970
• Lunghezza: 200 pagine