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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 point when his parents ignore his pleas for help and his schoolteacher turns her back on him - in desperation, he reaches out for attention, and finds instead a terrible revenge.
Escape from Ischiano Scalo comes at a price. Life there will never be the same again.
Price: $18.00
Pages: 416
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publication Date:
10 January 2023
Trim Size: 7.80 X 5.08 in
ISBN: 9781841959320
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
FICTION / General, Modern and contemporary fiction, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction in translation
Another powerful story about the loss of childhood innocence in small-town Italy from Rome-born author Ammaniti - who wrote the highly acclaimed I'm Not Scared.
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. He lives in Rome, Italy.