Messina, Italy, 1977: since childhood Aurora, daughter of the Fascist Silini, has had the habit of taking refuge in the bathroom studying and dreaming of emancipation from her family, that's too much oppressive. Giovanni has always been the daredevil of Santatorre family, angry with his father and his "communism that smells of defeat", and wants to make a revolution. The two meet at the university, and a few months later they expect a little girl. But life together proves different from what they had fantasized. Frustration and fear of failure can also offend the most passionate bond.
Thanks to the Prize the book has been translated in English by Clarissa Botsford and waiting for being published in the Unites States.

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Nadia Terranova / Read Bio

This book is the result of twenty years of work on Primo Levi and describes the “universe” of the author: his troubled life, his story as writer and intellectual, his multifaceted full of topics work, references and suggestions. As a sort of a mosaic, Marco Belpoliti moves deep into contents, imagery, subjects, creating also short paragraphs, which can be read individually as digressions or as part of a unitary context. More complex topics such as Judaism, concentration camps, or the testimony of Holocaust innervate and run through the whole book, which contains also ten impressive pictures , and exclusive epistolary material found by Belpoliti in the archives never explored before.
Thanks to the Prize the book has been translated in English by Clarissa Botsford and published in the United States by Seagull Books Publishing House.

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Belpoliti / Read Bio

Sent to a therapeutic community for autism at the age of eleven, Todd Aaron, now in his fifties, is the Old Fox of Payton LivingCenter. A joyous man who rereads the encyclopedia compulsively, he is unnerved by the sudden arrivals of a menacing new staffer and a disruptive, brain-injured roommate. His equilibrium is further worsened by Martine, a one-eyed new resident who has romantic intentions and persuades him to go off his meds to feel normal again. Undone by these pressures, Todd attempts an escape to return home to his younger brother and to a childhood that now inhabits only his dreams. You’re told many things when you love an adult with autism. You’re told that person will bring joy and grief and frustration and — if you let it happen — great humor into your life. Written astonishingly in the first-person voice of an autistic, adult man, Best Boy - with its unforgettable portraits of Todd’s beloved mother - is a piercing, achingly funny, finally shattering novel no reader can ever forget.
Thanks to the Prize the book has been translated in Italian by Assunta Martinese and published in Italy by Minimum Fax with the title Il ragazzo d’oro.

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Eli Gottlieb / Read Bio