Niccolo Ammaniti

• Aug-2017

It is four years since the virus came, killing every adult in its path. Not long after that the electricity failed. Food and water started running out. Fires raged across the country. Now Anna cares for her brother alone in a house hidden in the wood...

• Aug-2013

You are invited to attend the most decadent fete of the century. Italian high-society and international celebrities are gathered at Villa Ada, once a sprawling public park, now the largest private home in Rome. The host, a rags-to-riches tycoon, has ...

• Feb-2012

From internationally best-selling author Niccol� Ammaniti, comes a funny, tragic, gut-punch of a novel, charting how an unlikely alliance between two outsiders blows open one family's secrets. Lorenzo Cumi is a fourteen-year-old misfit. To quell t...

• Oct-2009

The bestselling author of I'm Not Scared delivers "a black thriller with the momentum of an action-packed Hollywood movie" (The Times Literary Supplement).   The winner of the prestigious Strega Prize, As God Commands is a dizzying and ...

• Jan-2009

Cristiano is thirteen. Home life is far from perfect. When his father and two friends come up with a plan to rob a bank, Cristiano sees the chance of a better life. As a tremendous storm brews that night, Cristiano will have to put childhood behind h...

• Apr-2008

Praise for the authors:

“Niccolò Ammaniti has written a deft masterpiece without a false note.” -- Michel Dibdin, Guardian

“The Italy of Massimo Carlotto is a different world entirely, a dangerous setting for serious crimes comm...

• Jun-2007

The bestselling author of I’m Not Scared “beautifully evokes the lopsided streets of an Italian backwater . . . the shadow life of childhood” (The New Yorker).   Italian literary superstar Niccolò Ammaniti’s novel, I...

• Apr-2007

Ischiano Scalo. A place where even the main road out to the nearest big town gives up after a couple of miles, where escape from a life of boredom and emptiness is almost impossible. Forced into crimes he never wanted to commit, Pietro reaches crisis...

• Mar-2004

The international bestselling novel "of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping read … a deft masterpiece with never a false note" (The Guardian, UK).A BBC Two Between The Covers Book Club PickSouthern Italy, 1978. In the midst of a...