I'm Not Scared (novel)
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| Author | Niccolò Ammaniti |
|---|---|
| Original title | Io non ho paura |
| Translator | Jonathan Hunt[1] |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| Genre | Fiction narrative |
| Published |
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| Media type | |
| 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 2 "I'm not scared". WorldCat. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura)". Italian-mysteries.com. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ↑ Dibdin, Michael. "Don't go into the farmhouse". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ↑ "Edgar Allan Poe Awards: 2005". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
External links
- I'm Not Scared in libraries (WorldCat catalog)