The Crossroads
- 4 Mar 2010
- 9781847671387
- £10.99
- 416 pp
- 129×198mm
- 15 Jan 2009
- 9781847674524
- £7.19
- 416 pp
In a few words
The prize-winning international bestseller from the author of I’m Not Scared
In a few words
The prize-winning international bestseller from the author of I’m Not Scared
Ammaniti has cranked up the volume for his blistering new novel.
Every scene contains a twist.
Ammaniti has cranked up the volume for his blistering new novel.
Every scene contains a twist.
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Cristiano is thirteen. Home life 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. As a tremendous storm brews that night, Cristiano will have to put childhood behind him once and for all, and the perfect crime will have shocking consequences.
More about
the book
Cristiano is thirteen. Home life 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. As a tremendous storm brews that night, Cristiano will have to put childhood behind him once and for all, and the perfect crime will have shocking consequences.
Brutal but effective.
Energy and danger spray off it like water from a choppy sea . . . Very hard to put down.
One of Italy's brightest literary stars . . . Combines tense horror with the blackest comedy.
Ammaniti fills his scenes with such rich detail, humour and surprise that it is impossible not to be drawn in . . . A forceful portrait of contemporary Italy, providing a long overdue counterbalance to the romantic, tourism-drive portraits of the country. And yet, for all the harshness of his world, warmth bubbles up between the cracks.
Brutal but effective.
Energy and danger spray off it like water from a choppy sea . . . Very hard to put down.
One of Italy's brightest literary stars . . . Combines tense horror with the blackest comedy.
Ammaniti fills his scenes with such rich detail, humour and surprise that it is impossible not to be drawn in . . . A forceful portrait of contemporary Italy, providing a long overdue counterbalance to the romantic, tourism-drive portraits of the country. And yet, for all the harshness of his world, warmth bubbles up between the cracks.
Niccolò Ammaniti
View profileNiccolò 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.
Niccolò Ammaniti
View profileNiccolò 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.
