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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