by Niccolo Ammaniti (Author), Jonathan Hunt (Translator)
The prize-winning international bestseller from the author of I'm Not Scared
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The prize-winning international bestseller from the author of I'm Not Scared
Cristiano is thirteen. His home is far from perfect. When his father and two friends come up with a plan to rob a bank, Cristiano sees the chance of a better life. On the night they set the plan in motion a tremendous storm brews.
Cristiano will have to put childhood behind him once and for all and learn that even perfect crimes have consequences.
'A fearsomely gifted writer . . . Ammaniti has cranked up the volume for his blistering new novel.'
Independent
'Energy and danger spray off it like water from a choppy sea . . . Very hard to put down.'
Daily Mail
'Every scene contains a twist.'
Guardian
Author Biography
Niccolo Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. He is the author of six novels translated into English and two short story collections. Several of his novels have been adapted for film, including Steal You Away, which was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, The Crossroads, winner of the Premio Strega Prize 2007, and the international bestseller I'm Not Scared, which won the prestigious Italian Viareggio-Repaci Prize for Fiction and has been translated into thirty-five languages. He lives in Rome, Italy.