Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. He is the author of six novels translated into English 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.
Ammaniti sets a new standard in post-apocalyptic fiction . . . This
story of children running wild in Sicily brilliantly manipulates
the usual models even as it transcends their limits . . . In the
midst of wonderfully detailed disorder, one girl named Anna
struggles to survive, fighting off feral dogs and crazed children
and enduring one of recent literature's most nightmarish visions of
hell on earth as she tries to feed and protect her young brother,
Astor
* * Guardian * *
One of Italy's foremost literary talents . . . Combines the wayword
fantasy of J.G. Ballard with comic-strip adventure . . . Ammaniti
has lost none of his gift for landscape description
* * Times Literary Supplement * *
Ammaniti's Italian bestseller has been compared to . . . Lord Of
The Flies and The Road . . . It's a powerfully disturbing and
thought-provoking read
* * Daily Mail * *
Brave and uncompromising writing . . . A brutal but moving
post-apocalyptic tale set in a world where adults have all been
wiped out . . . reminiscent of Lord of the Flies or Cormac
McCarthy's The Road . . . written with such heart and compassion
for the plight of the characters that you can't help but get sucked
in and root for them. Compelling and moving writing
* * Big Issue * *
Unbeatable storytelling - an immediate and engaging study of
humanity at its best and worst
* * Financial Times * *
A gripping tale of resilience, friendship and sibling love in a
brutal and dangerous world. I loved it!
*MEGAN BRADBURY, author of EVERYONE IS WATCHING*
Ammaniti won the Italian Strega Prize for I'm Not Scared, and Anna
has the same taut narrative, with straight-from-the-bow suspense,
but its mark is philosophical . . . concerned not only with the
will to live but also with what makes us alive
* * Irish Times * *
Ammaniti has an enviable ability to keep readers thoroughly
absorbed
* * The Herald * *
Anna has pretty much everything you could hope for from a
post-apocalyptic picaresque adventure story
* * London Review of Books * *
Set in a dystopian Italy where all the adults are dead . . .
Ammaniti has created a totally convincing Lord of the Flies-esque
world and young Anna, endlessly resourceful amid the horror and
chaos, is a heroine to root for
* * The Bookseller, Editor’s Choice * *
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