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The Crossroads
Niccolo Ammaniti
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Description for The Crossroads
Paperback. The prize-winning international bestseller from the author of I'm Not Scared Translator(s): Hunt, Jonathan. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 300. 416 pages. The prize-winning international bestseller from the author of I'm Not Scared. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight: 296. Translator(s): Hunt, Jonathan.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847671387
SKU
V9781847671387
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Ref
99-38
About Niccolo Ammaniti
Niccolò 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.
Reviews for The Crossroads
Ammaniti has cranked up the volume for his blistering new novel.
Independent
Every scene contains a twist.
Guardian
Brutal but effective.
The Times
Energy and danger spray off it like water from a choppy sea . . . Very hard to put down.
Daily Mail
One of Italy's brightest literary stars . . . Combines tense horror with the blackest comedy.
Observer
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.
Financial Times
Offers an artful interstiching of plots and cinematic, horror-dazed images, and Jonathan Hunt's translation is exemplary.
Observer
Undeniably gripping . . . Indeed, this is in a surprising way a love story.
Scotsman
A compulsively readable tragedy with a bleakly comic underbelly, as if the Kray twins' gang had been infiltrated by a couple of Marx brothers.
Sunday Herald
The Crossroads is a rollicking dark horror-comic, a gruelling piece of fun.
Independent
Independent
Every scene contains a twist.
Guardian
Brutal but effective.
The Times
Energy and danger spray off it like water from a choppy sea . . . Very hard to put down.
Daily Mail
One of Italy's brightest literary stars . . . Combines tense horror with the blackest comedy.
Observer
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.
Financial Times
Offers an artful interstiching of plots and cinematic, horror-dazed images, and Jonathan Hunt's translation is exemplary.
Observer
Undeniably gripping . . . Indeed, this is in a surprising way a love story.
Scotsman
A compulsively readable tragedy with a bleakly comic underbelly, as if the Kray twins' gang had been infiltrated by a couple of Marx brothers.
Sunday Herald
The Crossroads is a rollicking dark horror-comic, a gruelling piece of fun.
Independent