I'm Not Scared (novel)

I'm Not Scared

Cover of I'm Not Scared
Author Niccolò Ammaniti
Original title Io non ho paura
Translator Jonathan Hunt[1]
Country Italy
Language Italian
Genre Fiction narrative
Published
Media type Print
Pages 219
ISBN 9788806188672
OCLC OCLC 50525981

I'm Not Scared (Italian: Io non ho paura) is a novel by Niccolò Ammaniti.

In 2003, director Gabriele Salvatores adapted the novel into a film of the same name.

Plot

In 1978, in a small Italian village fictitiously named Acqua Traverse, a 9 year-old uncovers that the inhabitants of the village have kidnapped the son of a wealthy family to ask for a ransom.

Reception

The book has sold more than 700,000 copies since its publication in 2001,[2] and has been translated in twenty languages.[3]

The Guardian described the experience of reading I'm Not Scared as "closer to that of such Italian neo-realist masterpieces as De Sica's Bicycle Thieves as they appear to us now, imbued with a lyrical but utterly unsentimental nostalgia for lost innocence".[4]

Ammaniti was nominated for the Best Motion Picture Screenplay at the 2005 Edgar Award for the novel being the screenplay of the picture I'm Not Scared.[5] He also won the 2001 Viareggio Prize.

References

  1. 1 2 "I'm not scared". WorldCat. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Ricketts, Wendell. "I'm Not Scared:the film. A stunning interpretation of the book by the same name". Virtualitalia.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2007. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura)". Italian-mysteries.com. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Dibdin, Michael. "Don't go into the farmhouse". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Edgar Allan Poe Awards: 2005". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 15 August 2015.

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