I'm Not Scared
by Niccolò Ammaniti
translated by Jonathan Hunt
144pp, Canongate, £12
It is the heatwave summer of 1978, still remembered in Italy for its ferocity and duration. While the dozen adults in Aqua Traverse - a cluster of houses lost somewhere in the south of the peninsula - spend most of the day prostrate indoors, the children set off on their bikes to explore the countryside, tell scary stories and set each other dares. As the narrator Michele puts it: "We could do whatever we ...
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