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New Books2012-2013
Alessandra MeleGrandi & Associati Literary Agency
Via degli Olivetani 12 – 20123 Milan ItalyTel. 0039 02 4818962
Telefax 0039 02 48195108e-mail: [email protected]
Adriano Salani EditoreVia Gherardini 10 – 20145 Milan Italy
Tel. 0039 02 34597624 – Telefax 0039 02 34597206e-mail: [email protected]
www.salani.it
Salani Editore
FICTION
September 2012Pages: 420
NIENTE LACRIMEPER LA SIGNORINA OLGA
ELDALANZA
The first, bizarre case for Inspector Max Gilardi.Who killed Olga, a sprightly elderly woman and an amateur painter?Following the trail of a stolen painting, Police chief Max Gilardi, the char-ming Detective Inspector of the Milan Homicide squad, will have to solvethe mystery behind the death of the old woman.
« Elda Lanza is the female version of Camilleri »Marco Vichi
Elda Lanza is known to the general public as the first Italian televisionpresenter.She is a journalist, writer, media expert and a Professor of History of co-stume. Fond of crime fiction, Lanza has already published a number ofnovels.
Salani Editore
FICTION
February 2013Pages: 224
SE IL DIAVOLO PORTA IL CAPPELLO
FABRIZIOSILEI
From the winner of the 2012 Andersen Award for the best bookfor 9-12 year old readers, a new novel about friendship, historyand the challenges of growing up
This is the story of thirteen-year-old Ciro: he is the son of the war and ofan American soldier, the son of enthusiasm and of Liberation. Ciro’smum was only twenty when she met his father, and it was love at firstsight. Now thirteen and abandoned by his father, Ciro has to strugglewith poverty and the loss of his twin brother, and to fight against preju-dice and discrimination. In a rural landscape, Ciro lives like a wild animalin a magic world, waiting for a father who never comes back. He criesover the loss of his brother, even though he hardly remembers him, andpretends they are still together; he is forced to suffer the humiliations in-flicted on him by the local community. One day Ciro meets Salem, agipsy, and joins his band. Thus, Ciro discovers the gypsies and their lit-tle-known history, and thanks to them he lives an unprecedented adven-ture that will change his life and the way he looks at his world, forever.Silei is one of the most qualified and notable authors of Italian children’sliterature.
«Beautiful, important and complex. The expressive strength of anovel that shows a perfect balance between historical memoriesand everyday reality». Roberto Denti
Fabrizio Silei. His first novel Alice e i Nibelunghi (Alice and the Nibe-lungs) was acclaimed by critics and readers alike. In 2008 Silei wasthe only Italian author to make it to the final selection for theUnicef Award for human and children’s rights literature. Alice e i Nibe-lunghi, Bernardo e l’angelo nero and Un pitone nel pallone are both pub-lished by Salani.
Salani Editore
FICTION
Aprile 2012Pages: 400
UN GIORNO ARRIVERO
SILVANAMOSSANO
A century of Italian history retold through an intimate, universalfamily saga. Mossano is the new Sveva Casati Modignani
For Anita, America (that she pronounces ‘la Merica’) means dream,hope, and sorrow. Sorrow because her sister Irene migrated to Americanever to return; it is hope because she wants to go there too, to start anew and better life, far from the hardship of a peasant’s life and the dif-ficult years between the two World Wars; finally, it is a dream becauseevery year that goes by seems to push la Merica further away from Anita.However, Anita is not going to give up: she lives her life waiting for thatmoment when she will get to the dock, embark on the ship and cross thevastness of the ocean.History walks side by side with the novel’s characters; it touches themand turns their life upside down.
«At last an emotional, dramatic account of a time when we werethe ones emigrating to, and dreaming of, America».
Sveva Casati Modignani
Silvana Mossano lives in Casale Monferrato. She is a journalist and hasbeen working for the daily La Stampa since 1989.
Salani Editore
FICTION
May 2012Pages: 352
SATANISTI PERBENE
SUSANNARAULE
Inspector Sensi – unconventional outside, unique inside – is backwith a new investigation.
Inspector Sensi is back: heartbroken since Carmel, the love of his life, hasbroken up with him. Nevertheless, he will have to handle not one buttwo investigations at once.
You grow fond of this book: fond of its protagonists and their strikingdialogues, of the sadness that becomes happiness and of Sensi’s despe-rate humanity.You wish it never ended. Unless you can go and read Sensi’s next adven-ture.
In praise of L’ombra del Commissario Sensi«A truly personal mix of fantastic hyper-realism and amusedirony». L’Indice
«The ingredients of L’ombra del Commissario Sensi straddle be-tween tradition and Internet, detective story and pop culture,in a wonderful setting». La Stampa
Susanna Raule, 30 years old, is a psychologist. She has written story-boards for comic strips since 2005 for a number of publishing houses.L’ombra del commissario Sensi is her debut novel.
June 2011Pages: 240
Salani Editore
NON-FICTION
January 2013Pages: 160
COME IMPARARE A STUDIARE
MATTEORAMPIN
After the success of Come non farsi bocciare a scuola, that soldover 20,000 copies, now it is time to learn how to study.
Practical methods to transform your homework from a nightmare to beendured into key strategic moments that help you study well and savetime.
January 2012Pages: 1604 editions
«From choosing the right desk to smiling to your teacher: all thetips to avoid failing at school». la Repubblica
Matteo Rampin, psychiatrist and psychotherapist has over twentybooks to his credit, published in Italy and abroad.
Salani Editore
NON-FICTION
October 2012Pages: 208
IL NUOVO BON TON A TAVOLAE L’ARTE DI CONOSCERE GLI ALTRI
ROBERTASCHIRA
Bon-ton, body language, obsessions and impoliteness: every-thing you need to know about table manners. From a writer-gourmet and ‘‘taste psychologist’’, the manual of etiquette forthe third millennium.
Psychology and bon-ton come together for the first time to show youhow to behave in every occasion – from breakfast to aperitif, from din-ner to after dinner – and to find out everything about the people you aresharing a meal with.
Roberta Schira is a writer and food critic; she regularly contributes toCorriere della Sera and she is a food consultant for www.finedininglo-vers.com, an international website dedicated to food culture. She has al-ways been interested in the connections between food, costume andpsychology. Salani has published Cucinoterapia, L’amore goloso andthe novel Le voci di Petronilla (co-authored by Alessandra De Vizzi).Ponte alle Grazie has published Schira’s books on anthropology of foodIl libro delle frattaglie and La pasta fresca e ripiena, and the novel PiazzaGourmand.
Salani Editore
NON-FICTION
September 2012Pages: 104
BAMBINI ALL’INFERNO
CECILIAGENTILE
A report dedicated to those who suffer the violence and in-humanity of war.What it means to be a child in Gaza: forced to live in the middle ofa conflict, innocent children suffer more than anyone else.
A corridor is suspended in the middle of nowhere, running through adesolate, abandoned land, under constant observation by the Israeli sol-diers. This is what the last kilometer before getting into the Gaza Stripthrough the Erez Crossing looks like. The author covered that distancealone. Once on the other side, what she came across were Hamasmen, verses from the Quran and shabby-looking taxis that drive youaway from the border, but also heaps of rubble, and children who weredigging into them with their bare hands, hoping to find some rubble thatcould be used again. The book is the result of the encounter betweenthese children and the author, who entered their life, allowed them tospeak and to tell their story. It is a shocking investigation on the dramaticsituation in which the children of the Gaza Strip and the other OccupiedPalestinian Territories are forced to live. Entitled, just like anybody else, toinalienable human rights, these children are the innocent victims of vio-lence and war.
Cecilia Gentile is a journalist for the daily la Repubblica. She writes onsocial and environmental issues, immigration and childhood. She used tobe a high school teacher, an experience that gave her a high sensitivitytowards children and teenagers. An exhibition of her photos of life in Pa-lestine was held in the Sala della Pace of Palazzo Valentini in Rome.
Salani Editore
NON-FICTION
Aprile 2012Pages: 330
UN PO’ DI TUTTO
IDAVISOCCHI
Eight notebooks are found in an attic quite by chance by a grand-daughter, just like in a novel
The notebooks are scrupulously written in neat and elegant handwritingand explain everything a young woman should know when contemplat-ing marriage. Or at least a young woman in the 1940s.
The notebooks are what Ida Visocchi, a brave and loving Neapolitan mo-ther who lived in the early part of the 20th century, gave to her daugh-ters as a wedding gift, in a period in which tradition played an importantrole in people’s lives. The gift to her daughters was to help them over-come their doubts and satisfy their curiosity on the eve of their marriage.
Ida Visocchi was the second of nine children. She spent her childhoodin boarding school; afterwards she married and had five children. Idawas a fighter: during World War II she used to go to the black marketby herself to buy milk and flour for her family. At one point she evenhad a hole dug in her garden to hide some political refugees. She wasa generous woman with impeccable good taste; despite dedicatingher life to her family, she was also a very talented business woman.
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