I'm Not Scared [Paperback]

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 Scaredhas become a contemporary classic in Italian literature, read and celebrated the world over.

A deft masterpiece with never a false noteBeneath this simplicity, Ammaniti weaves in the fairytale metaphors we know so well, giving the novel a haunting profundityAmmaniti's prose is faultless from the firstThe new Italian word for talent is Ammaniti

Niccol? Ammanitiwas 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, includingSteal You Away, which was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize,The Crossroads, winner of the Premio Strega Prize 2007, and the international bestsellerI'm Not Scared, which won the prestigious Italian Viareggio-Repaci Prize for Fiction and has been translated into thirty-five languages.

Translated from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt. Hunt divides his time between Italy and Britain. His translations include Niccol? Ammaniti'sThe CrossroadsandSteal You Away, Nicolai Lilin'sSiberian Education, Luca Rastello'sI Am the Market, and Giorgio Vasta'sTime on My Hands.

'A deft masterpiece with never a false note' -GuardianAn exquisite parable