Me And You - Softcover

Ammaniti, Niccolo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1443412708 ISBN 13: 9781443412704

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

Lorenzo Cuni is a fourteen-year-old loner. His wealthy parents think he is away on a school skiing trip, but, in fact, he has stowed himself away in a rarely visited cellar of his parents’ house. Surrounded by video games and tinned food, he is perfectly content in his isolation. Then he gets an unexpected visit from his estranged half-sister, Olivia.

Olivia is in her twenties, she’s addicted to heroin, and she needs Lorenzo’s help. Against his better judgment, Lorenzo lets her stay. Over the next week, they form an intense bond. This brief encounter will change the course of both of their lives.

From the acclaimed author of I’m Not Scared, this is a compulsive exploration of what families keep behind locked doors.

About this title

About the Author:

NICCOLÒ AMMANITI was born in Rome in 1966. He has written three novels and a collection of short stories. His first novel, I’ll Steal you Away, was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He won the prestigious Italian Viareggio- Rèpaci Literary Prize for Fiction for his bestselling novel I’m Not Scared, which has been translated into thirty-five languages. As God Commands received the Premio Strega Prize in 2007. Visit him online at www.niccoloammaniti.it/eng.

Review:

Exuberant and audacious. * * Observer * * The new Italian word for talent is Ammaniti. * * The Times * * A fearsomely gifted writer. * * Independent * * A master storyteller. * * Guardian * * The story of a young boy who's heading towards adulthood. This book amazed me' -- Bernardo Bertolucci Near perfect [...] this small gem of storytelling has the balance just about right. * * Scotland on Sunday * * An original, thought-provoking and well-written piece of fiction... Ammaniti takes us on a remarkable voyage through the fear of future responsibility which awaits young people on the brink of adulthood and laces it with all the irony, self-criticism and self-indulgence familiar to that age-group. This is a powerful novel, which asks us to consider the relationships we have with our own siblings and the memories of our own adolescence -- Emilia Ippolito * * The Independent * * Ammaniti's matter-of-fact, unadorned prose captures Lorenzo's angst-ridden, incomprehending world-view with a confident clarity, and as resolution back in the present day beckons, he plots the course of their filial relationship with a deft, understated skill -- Bram E Gieben * * The Skinny * * Me and You is a slim volume which takes only a couple of hours to read. But thanks to the skilfully presented Lorenzo and the poignant reconciliation of the boy with his half-sister, it lingers in the memory for much, much longer -- Alastair Mabbott * * The Herald * *

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1443412708
• ISBN 13: 9781443412704
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176