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A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK

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.



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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 * *

I'm Not Scared: A BBC Two Between the Covers Book

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    A Paperback / softback by Niccolò Ammaniti, Jonathan Hunt

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      Publisher Canongate Canons
      Published 16 June 2016
      ISBN-13 9781782117155
      978-1782117155
      ISBN-10 1782117156
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK

      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.



      Trade Review
      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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