Io non ho paura (I am not afraid), January 2010, 7/10.
Written by Niccolò Ammaniti, published by Einaudi Editore (Canongate Books in English).
This short novel from Strega prize winner Ammaniti is a pleasant read, but I was expecing something a little more substantial. The narrator and protagonist of the book is a 10-years old child from a very rural and impoverished town in the South of Italy. The events take place in the record-breaking heat of the summer of 1978, a summer so hot that adults do not adventure out of the houses during the day and the city seems abandoned for the children to roam around freely. And it is through the eyes of the child that we see initially unexplainable events come toghether in making one of the crimes that were haunting Italy in that period.
