I'm Not Scared

The international bestselling novel "e;of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping read ... a deft masterpiece with never a false note"e; (The Guardian, UK). A BBC Two Between The Covers Book Club PickSouthern Italy, 1978. In the midst of a relentlessly hot summer, as the adults stay inside tending to their own business, 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 doesn't dare tell a soul. It is a secret that Michele doesn't fully understand, yet it will force him to question everything and everyone around him, and will bring his innocent world toppling down. Both "e;an exquisite parable"e; and a tense thriller, I'm Not Scared has become a contemporary classic in Italian literature, read and celebrated the world over (Daily Telegraph, UK).