Authors: Niccolo Ammaniti
I’d like to thank Hugh and Drusilla Fraser, who gave me the tranquillity to finish the book. And I’d like to thank Orsola De Castro for standing by me and Graziano Biglia. And I’d like to thank the wonderful Roberta Melli, and Esa de Simone and Luisa Brancaccio and Carlo Guglielmi and Jaime D’Alessandro and Aldo Nove and Emanuele and Martina Trevi, Alessandra Orsi and Maurizio and Rosella Antonini and Paolo Repetti and Severino Cesari. I’d like to thank Renata Colorni and Antonio Franchini and the whole Editoria Letteraria Mondadori team for their help (Daniela, Elisabetta, Helena, Lucia, Luigi, Silvana, Mara, Cesare, Geremia, Joy). And finally I’d like to thank my whole family (including the Grancereale Gang) for being such a great support. Thank you again.
I’m Not Scared
Niccolò Ammaniti
was born in Rome in 1966. He has written three novels and a collection of short stories. He won the prestigious Italian Viareggio-Repaci Prize for Fiction with his bestselling novel
I’m Not Scared
, which has been translated into thirty-five languages.
Jonathan Hunt
currently divides his time between Italy and Britain. His translations include Niccolò Ammaniti,
I’m Not Scared
and Tommaso Pincio,
Love Shaped Story
.
First published in Great Britain in 2006
by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TE
First published in Italy as
Ti Prendo e ti porto via
by Mondadori Editore s.p.a
This digital edition first published in 2009
by Canongate Books
Copyright © Niccolò Ammaniti, 1999
English translation copyright © Jonathan Hunt, 2006
The moral rights of the author and translator have been asserted
This English translation was supported by
the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh
This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters,
places and events are figments of the author’s imagination and
are used fictionally. Any resembance to real persons, alive or
dead, or to real events and places is purely coincidental
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ISBN 978 1 84767 693 1
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