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HIGHLIGHT TITLE october 2019

Liborio Bonfiglio is a “cocciamatte”, the luna-tic that everyone mocks. The weird and irre-gular person who prowls on the basalt slabs of a village that is not mentioned. But in his tangled voice the Twentieth century passes again in front of our eyes, with the overwhel-ming and joyful rhythm of a procession with a marching band in tow.Everything in Liborio becomes tale, word, slip and memory: his school, his appren-ticeship in a barbershop, the brothels, the war and the Resistance, his factory work, the trade union, the madhouse and his so-litude during the old age. A series of unfor-gettable characters populate his memory: the teacher Cianfarra Romeo, the maitresse Donna Assunta, his young love Teresa Gior-dani, his laborer friends, Boschetto, Lenino, Bacunino and Malatesta, the doctor Alvise Mattolini, Teté and the “Sordicchia”…From 1926, the year in which Liborio was born – “but in summer” – until 2010, the year in which he is preparing to bow out – “but in winter” – Liborio will celebrate, in a hilarious and melancholic chronicle of failures and revenges, the Carnival of our century, its black signs but also its madness and courage.Through the miracle of an unpredictable lan-guage, crooked and circular, between tradi-tion and funambulism, Remo Rapino wrote a novel that entertains and moves, and pul-ses in each line of a fragile but obstinate humanity, the one that only a crazy per-son like Liborio, who lived on the fringes of society, between pulped dreams and lost words, could preserve.

REMO RAPINOThe Life and Times of Liborio Bonfiglio

REMO RAPINO / 1951h a s b e e n p r o f e s s o r o f p h i l o s o p h y a n d h i -

s t o r y. He publi shed many books of both po -

e t r y and prose fo r smal l publi shing houses .

FICTION - NOVEL265 pages

“The best I ta l ian book I ' ve read in 2019” Gianni Mura - la Repubblica

WINNER OF THE 2020

CAMPIELLO PRIZE

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WINNER OF THE 2020 CAMPIELLO PRIZE

“Rap ino te l ls us that i t i s bet ter a foo l wi th h is roots , s tory and sor rows than a mass o f conformed people pretend ing to be d i f ferent . ”

Goffredo Fofi - Internazionale

“A l i t t le l i te rary mirac le . A funny and mov ing nove l , romant ic and unforget tab le . ” Gianni Montieri - HuffPost

“Language , in th is nove l , doesn’ t match jus t wi th the s tory that i s narrated but a lso wi th the character who narrates i t : language (s ty le ) , s tory and character . ”

Diego De Silva - La Stampa

“A book you wi l l keep in your hear t . ” Mateto Nucci - I l Venerdì di Repubblica

“E ighty years o f unforget tab le memor ies . ” Piergiorgio Paterl ini - Robinson la Repubblica

Winner of 2020 Campiello Prize

Shortl isted for 2020 Strega Prize

Shortl isted for Premio Napoli

Shorti l isted for Premio Sila '49

Shortl isted for Premio Subiaco Città del Libro

Shortl isted for Premio Letterario Città di Rieti Centro d' Ital ia

Winner of Cielo d'Alcamo Prize for the best excipit

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NOVITÀ giugno 2017

Nelle sue storie, cesellate con la finezza di Carver e Salinger, Paolo Cognetti ha sem-pre saputo rappresentare con sorprendente intensità l’universo femminile. Ed è an-cora una donna la protagonista di Sofia si veste sempre di nero, un romanzo composto da dieci racconti autonomi che la accom-pagnano lungo trent’anni di storia: dall’in-fanzia in una famiglia borghese apparente-mente normale, ma percorsa da sotterranee tensioni, all’adolescenza tormentata da di-sturbi psicologici, alla liberatoria scoperta del sesso e della passione per il teatro, al momento della maturità e dei bilanci. Con la sua scrittura precisa e intensa, che na-sconde dietro l’apparente semplicità una straordinaria potenza emotiva, Cognetti ci regala il ritratto di un personaggio fem-minile indimenticabile: una donna torbida e inquieta, capace di sopravvivere alle pro-prie nevrosi e di sfruttare improvvisi attimi di illuminazione fino a trovare, faticosa-mente, la propria strada. Un libro avvin-cente in cui ciascun lettore troverà mo-menti di bellezza e di dolore, di ansia e di riscatto, che riconoscerà di aver vissuto an-che sulla sua stessa pelle.

PAOLO COGNETT I / 1978è autore di alcuni documentari, tra cui Vietato scappare,

Isbam, La notte del leone e, prodotti da minimum fax

media, Scrivere/New York e Il lato sbagliato del ponte.

Per minimum fax ha pubblicato Una cosa piccola che

sta per esplodere (2007), vincitore, tra gli altri, del Pre-

mio Fucini, del Premio Settembrini e finalista al Premio

Chiara, Sofia si veste sempre di nero (2012) e A pesca

nelle pozze più profonde (2014), affascinante rif lessione

sull’arte del racconto.

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«Nel l Z ink è immediatamente d iventata una de l le voc i p iù or ig ina l i e innovat ive de l la narrat iva contemporanea». Slate

18 euro - 340 pagineformato 14,7 X 21 cmisbn 978-88-7521-692-4

FICTIONcollana SOTTERRANEI

HIGHLIGHT TITLE july 2020

A mind game, an experiment, a literary jam session: Camilleri and Lucarelli, the most successful authors of crime fiction in Italy, join forces. In a delightful fictional cross-over, they have their best-loved cha-racters, detective Salvo Montalbano and in-spector Grazia Negro, working together on a bizarre homicide case that will put their own lives in danger.

The book was written as a back-and-forth exchange between the authors, with each giving clues and setting obstacles for the other: the result is a finely structured col-lection of letters, notes, reports that the characters send to one another during the investigation. A stimulating puzzle and a suspense thriller all wrapped into one, this is a must-read for all crime-fiction lovers.

On July 16th 2020 – ten years after the first edition and on the first anniversary of the death of Andrea Camilleri – mini-mum fax will publish a new edition of So-mething Smells Fishy: an illustrated version containing a collage of letters, notes, new-spaper cuttings, police reports and “piz-zini” exchanged between the two detecti-ves. With the style of a movie storyboard, this new version captivates even more the reader and accompanies him in the com-pelling investigation towards a breath-ta-king ending.

ANDREA CAMILLER I CARLO LUCARELL ISomething Smells Fishy


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“Someth ing smel ls f ishy deserves to be read not on ly for i ts p lo t , but a lso for what you can foresee , peep ing in the backstage of two great authors . An arduous yet chal leng ing exper iment . ” La Stampa

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Nelle sue storie, cesellate con la finezza di Carver e Salinger, Paolo Cognetti ha sem-pre saputo rappresentare con sorprendente intensità l’universo femminile. Ed è an-cora una donna la protagonista di Sofia si veste sempre di nero, un romanzo composto da dieci racconti autonomi che la accom-pagnano lungo trent’anni di storia: dall’in-fanzia in una famiglia borghese apparente-


mente normale, ma percorsa da sotterranee tensioni, all’adolescenza tormentata da di-sturbi psicologici, alla liberatoria scoperta del sesso e della passione per il teatro, al momento della maturità e dei bilanci. Con la sua scrittura precisa e intensa, che na-sconde dietro l’apparente semplicità una straordinaria potenza emotiva.


SEZ IONE FICTION - NOVEL160 pages

ANDREA CAMILLER I 's novels and short stories have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and

his books have been translated into ten languages. Sicilian detective Salvo Montalbano is one of the most po-

pular characters in contemporary Italian literature, and a successful tv series based on him has been airing

since 1999. Camilleri died in 2019 aged 93.

CARLO LUCARELL I is the author of several best-selling crime novels (including Silver Dagger Award-winner Almost Blue) and

non-fiction books. He also writes for tv and film, and has hosted the true-crime show Blu Notte for more than

ten years on the national public television. His books have sold in twelve countries.

HIGHLIGHT TITLE july 2020

5150

Caro Salvo,

sono riuscita a mangiare i cannoli senza strozzarmi con i bigliet-

ti, spero che tu gradisca i tortellini che ti invio con la compli-

cità degli amici Tamburini e Lucarelli. Scusa se scrivo piccolo ma

cerco di far stare sul cabaret più notizie possibile.

Allora: sì, la tettona ha un neo all’occhio sinistro, il negozian-

te se lo ricorda anche se non era proprio quello che stava guardando.

Chi è? Hai ragione tu, qualcuno non me la racconta giusta. Ho parla-

to con il medico legale e ho scoperto che la perizia che abbiamo agli

atti non è quella che ha redatto lui. O meglio, non è tutta lì. C’è

un’integrazione che è sparita e che analizzava quel livido al pol-

so sinistro e lo attribuiva al cinturino di un orologio strappato o

torto con forza. Per prenderlo, visto che non c’è più.

E poi c’è l’esame tossicologico. Sì, nel sangue del Magnifico ri-

sulta un tasso d’alcool che se la stradale gli avesse fatto il test

avrebbe fatto scoppiare l’etilometro. L’hanno fatto bere, e per me

l’ha fatto bere la tettona (ripeto: ma siete tutti così voi uomini?).

Per quanto riguarda il tuo invito a tirarmene fuori, troppo tar-

di, caro commissario, ormai ci sono dentro e voglio arrivare in fon-

do. E non perché sia un rambo, ma perché sono curiosa, e non posso

farci niente.

Così sono tornata sul luogo del delitto e tadaan! ho beccato la si-

gnora Cefoli. Credo che ce ne sia una in ogni palazzo e soprattut-

to in Emilia. La Cefoli è quella che quaggiù chiamano una «cazzia-

na», vale a dire una che non si fa mai i cazzi suoi. E per fortuna.

La signora era alla finestra della casa di fronte, attorno alle 22, e

ha visto una donna uscire dal numero 4 di via Altaseta. Non ha no-

tato le tette, ma ha visto che era in compagnia di un tizio pelato

piuttosto robusto con il pizzetto. Aveva un orologio in mano, che si

è messo in tasca.

Ora, qui viene il bello, anzi, il brutto. Questa sommaria informa-

zione testimoniale la Cefoli l’aveva già resa. Non al collega del-

la volante che è arrivato ma a un altro collega di cui non ricorda

il nome e che se l’è tenuta in tasca, visto che non è mai arrivata

agli atti. Mi sa che hai ragione tu, caro commissario, qui c’è puz-

za di servizi.

Hai notizie dell’amico del Magnifico? Visto la fine che hanno fat-

to i fratelli Boccanera mi pare che tiri una brutta aria anche a Pa-

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NEW TITLEaugust 2020

Marta comes back home, to her small vil-lage in Marche. It’s a warm and cozy place, where the friends of a lifetime welcome her without asking questions, just happy that she’s back.

A place where the woods hold the stories of many generations. A place where foreign caregivers, who look after Marta’s ill grand-mother, leave before you had the time to memorize their names: taking care of a per-son with Alzheimer's disease is too hard and grandma is worst of a diaulu (devil), so they run away as soon as they find so-mething better, or even before.

When she comes back to the village to help her mother deal with this overturned every-day life, Marta becomes a caregiver herself. She has to face a disease which doesn’t burn fast in a burst of pain and then alleviate in healing or death: this is a disease that day after day, one endless hour after another, steals humanity from people forgetting who they are and who they were, with their plenitude and their contradictions.

Marta comes back to search dignity in the creatures that live, love and suffer. She co-mes back to remember the stories of her fa-mily, to recover the past that her mother’s mother lost and, together with it, a hope for the future.

MARTA ZURA-PUNTARONIWe Are Not To Blame


MARTA ZURA-PUNTARONI / 1988w a s b o r n i n S a n S e v e r i n o M a r c h e a n d s h e n o w l i v e s i n S i e n a ,

w h e r e s h e s t u d i e d H i s p a n o-A m e r i c a n l i t e r a t u r e . S h e w o r ks a s

a s o c i a l m e d i a m a n a g e r i n t h e fa s h i o n f i e l d a n d s h e i s a v e r y

we l l-k n o w n b lo g g e r a n d i n s ta g ra m m e r. H e r d e b u t n o ve l , Gr e a t

O n i r i c A g e (2017) h as d ra w n m u c h c r i t i c a l a c c la i m .

"Praised be this new writer". il Foglio

"An evocative yet raw and fierce style". la Repubblica "The language of the author is young as the pro-

tagonist: they’re both truthful and they both fit the present. They speak through senses, mostly the smell and the view that unfolds on the lands" .

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

BACKLIST TITLEmarch 2020

We are in Sicily, at the beginning of the 70s, in September. On a big esplanade, under an embankment cultivated with olive trees, there is a slum built after the earthquake. Apparently it’s a dry place, there is no water in the houses and basic rights are denied. A group of activists founds a commune – they are anarchists, communists, Italian and fo-reign hippies – and tries to rally other slum dwellers to rebel. One day, children coming from the com-mune find a young boy at the river mouth: he is thin and has golden curls. He looks dead. They call him Italo Orlando, due to a legend from a few years earlier. They don’t know that the new appearance of this god of change will overwhelm many lives. A young student of peasant origin, Sa-verio, will fall madly in love with him. The narrator of this black tale of promi-ses and ruins, illusions, real changes and tragedy is Ciccio, a thirteen years old boy who lives in one of those barracks with his mother and sister.

With her visionary and careful style, in this second part of the trilogy on Italo Or-lando, Carola Susani tells us another de-cisive turning point in the history of our country, when, for a while, it seemed that justice was imminent and love shone again.

CAROLA SUSANITerrapiena


“ In Caro la Susan i you fee l the creatura l lesson of Pasol in i and Morante . ” la Repubblica

CAROLA SUSANI / 1965wr i tes fo r a d u l ts a n d c h i l d re n . S h e c o l la b o ra te d w i th L o S t r a-

n i e r o , G l i A s i n i a n d R e p u b b l i c a ; s h e l e a d s s e m i n a r s o n r e a-

d i n g a n d wr i t i n g . S h e p u b l i s h e d P e c o r e v i v e (20 06 , s h o r t l i s te d

fo r th e S t re g a Pr i ze) a n d E r a v a m o b a m b i n i a b b a s t a n z a (2012, Lo

S t ra n i e ro Pr i ze) w i th M i n i m u m Fax .

“A c lear and cont ro l led wi r i t ing , the one o f Caro la Susan i , w i th which she enters in the fami ly and soc ia l dynamics in the balance between h is tory and popular legends . ” i l Corriere della Sera

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BACKLIST TITLEoctober 2018

In the western part of Sicily, at the end of Fifties, Irene, a preadolescent girl, finds in her almond groves a young yellow-skinned man: he’s naked and seems he is sleeping. He has come out from nowhere. He doesn’t have past, nor memory.

Irene’s family – her father, a photographer, and her old very rich grandmother – accepts him in their home in Settecannelle and gi-ves him the name Italo, but he brings luck and disruption in return. He transforms everything he touches, he lights a fire in a blocked chimney, he brings electric li-ght and running water, he finds disappe-ared water sources. He gradually extends his gifts to the nearby farmhouses. Chil-dren run after him, having being seduced by his playful energy, because he plays, he does nothing but play.But who really is Italo Orlando? People say that there is something of disturbing, dark, threatening in him. In the meanwhile, in that town, oil has been discovered, so the forgetful man joins the engineers and te-chnicians that have come to find the black gold. Is there a relation between Italo’s appe-arance and the changes that are going to happen? Is he maybe a mercurial, fatal god of changement that will erase the old world in the name of the ambiguous metamorpho-sis of present days? Surely his arrival and his terrible legacy will mark the passage of Irene to adult age.

The First Life of Italo Orlando is the first novel of a trilogy which will see the return of this fascinating character in three key moments of our national history.

CAROLA SUSANIThe First Life of Italo Orlando


“These are acc identa l paths towards the adul t age , o f ten populated by s t range marg inal i zed characters , those paths that Caro la Susan i loves to t read . ” i l Corriere della Sera

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HIGHLIGHT TITLEseptember 2012

Sofia is a complex, restless woman from Northern Italy whose story we follow for thirty years: from her childhood in a see-mingly peaceful middle-class family du-ring the’80s to her troubled adolescence in the ’90s, to her liberating discovery of sex and her passion for theatre, to the moment when, in New York at the beginning of a new century, she must take stock of her life so far. Compellingly readable and emotio-nally charged, this novel is poised to be Co-gnetti’s definitive breakthrough.

PAOLO COGNETT I / 1978is the author of two acclaimed short-story collections

(his first, Handbook for Successful Girls, sold

more than 10,000 copies; his second, A small thing

about to explode, won the Premio Settembrini and

the Premio Renato Fucini, and was shortlisted for

the Premio Chiara), with the novel Sofia Always

Wears Black was consacrated as one of the best voi-

ces in contemporary Italian literature. With his last

novel Le otto montagne (Einaudi, 2016) he won the

2017 Strega Prize.

I s i t poss ib i le to por t ray a female character , as a ch i ld , a teenager and then a young woman f ick les as a f lame? Paolo Cognet t i does i t , and the resu l t i s wonder fu l . ” Elle

“One of the most compass ionate vo ices o f h is generat ion . ” Famiglia Cristiana

“Paolo Cognet t i bu i lds up a per fect ly o i led mach ine o f imprec is ion . ” Le nouvel Observateur

PAOLO COGNETT ISofia Always Wears Black

“The most beaut i fu l book o f 2012 . Read i t , and Sof ia wi l l s tay wi th you forever . ” Vanity Fair

“Cognet t i ’ s prose is master fu l . ” Blow Up

“Cognet t i i s exqu is i te ly percept ive when descr ib ing women.” Maire Claire


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PAOL O C OGNE T T IA Handbook For Successful Girls

PAOL O C OGNE T T IA Small Thing About To Explode

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120 pages october 2004

Seven stories, seven portraits of women. Girls fighting for love, for motherhood, for work; women who travel, build their care-ers or inherit fortunes; women who lose their jobs, who are betrayed and abando-ned, and try to deal with failure; women who start over, rebel, sail without a com-pass through the storms of daily life. By their sides are weak and disoriented men, only capable of getting by, lacking cou-rage and irony and also often lacking the

After his prev ious astonishing debut with Handbook for successful girls, his time Paolo Cognetti’s unifying theme is the most sensitive, violent, and painful age of life-adolescence. Whether focusing on wealthy, twisted, fa-scinating girls committed to a clinic for the anorexic, or kids hurtling into the solitude of their parents’ disintegrating marriage, the adolescence explored in these short sto-ries becomes a game of roulette in which it is the future that is at stake; the moment, painful and keenly felt, in which the pro-

solitude that surrounds their girlfriends. With a dry and sharp style, and a captiva-ting plot skillfully mixing bittersweet ro-mance and coming-of-age tales against the frantic, often surreal backdrop of post-in-dustrial Northern Italy, Cognetti builds the chapters of an imaginary “handbook for successful girls”, seven ways of finding or losing happiness in today’s world, seven sto-ries that speak out with a voice that is im-possible to forget.

tagonist becomes aware of his or her iden-tity, and discovers sex, friendship, and the cruelty of life, while striving to transform all these elements into an opportunity for redemption and emancipation. With the intense and precise writing that won him his first popularity, and a perfect mastery of the way things intertwine, Paolo Cognetti proves once again that he is one of the best new writers at describing everyday life. And, more important, one of the few writers able to keep his readers’ rapt inte-rest from the first page to the last.

HIGHLIGHT TITLE FICTION - SHORT STORIES

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158 pages november 2007

“For the po ignancy and sheer qual i ty o f h is wr i t ing , Cognet t i can compete wi th the great Amer ican shor t-story wr i ters . ” Linus

“A love ly surpr ise [ . . . ] M in imal is t techn ique mastered wi th po ised e legance . ” I l sole 24 ore

NON FICTION

NEW TITLEnovember 2020

Since Sigmund Freud’s landmark question «what women want?», the issue of desire has been intrinsically linked to gender differen-ces and, in particular, to the feminine. A fe-minine based on the impossibility of answe-ring to this very question, an obscure object, an “other” to wonder about.

Raging from the objectification of women on television through #metoo, incels and sex edu-cation to femicide, Elisa Cuter explores the current “war of the sexes” (or, at least, what is perceived as such) trying to overturn clichés and misconceptions of mainstream femi-nism, and asking whether it still makes sense to reclaim an identity which is historically de-fined as subordinate.

Getting back to the concept of desire, Cuter mixes many things: personal essay, psychoa-nalysis, philosophy, sociology, movies, pop cul-ture. Trying to set up the modern meaning of the equation «the personal is political», she di-smantles the false equivalence of discrimina-tion with exploitation providing a radical cri-tique of the moralism which permeates the current political discourse.

Back to the Desire is an original perspective on fundamental topics of the ongoing public de-bate, an analytic storytelling which connects apparently distant elements, but mostly an in-vitation to leave the safe harbor of identity in search of more ambitious challenges and un-settling questions, such as those put forth by desire.

EL ISA CUTERBack to the Desire

NON FICTION 250 pages

EL ISA CUTER / 1987is PhD and research assistant at Filmuniversität Kon-

rad Wolf in Babelsberg. She’s editor at Il Tascabile

(online cultural review published by Treccani) and

she writes about movies and gender issues on several

magazines. This is her first book.

«These are difficult times for male/fema-le and sex/society relations. The brilliant and restless mind of Elisa Cuter pushes us beyond the excessive sanification of the problem to abandon the patriarchy without losing our desire.»Francesco Pacifico

NEW TITLEseptember 2020

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi has been narra-ted many times, but Bianciardi did it his own way: with a poncho which is more like a horse blanket and a long list of failed jobs (cowherd, middleman, private teacher, candlemaker), we see here Gari-baldi in a new light. This is not just a biography, it is a novel of a rebel deposed from his pede-stal and brought back to life and to its twists of passions, sufferings, errors, disappointments. Lu-ciano Bianciardi – the irregular genius of Italian literature – gives us a portrait of the Risorgimento icon with the whispered tone of confidences, the scrupulousness of an historian and the vividness of a great writer.

The experience as a corsair, the deeds of the Rio Grande, the siege of Montevideo and Rome, the gaucho Aguyar, Anita’s death, the expedition of the Thousand: a life that seems like an adventure novel narrated in the homage of an anarchic man defeated by alcohol and a hard life. In fact this is the last book Bianciardi wrote and it was relea-sed posthumously in 1972: an heroic (or antihe-roic) tale written against a country – Italy – that the author saw as coward, hypocrite, ingrate and prig.

After all – amongst the Thousand – Garibaldi wa-sn’t even listed as Italian: therefore Bianciardi de-scribes him as a stranger in his own land, an im-pulsive and generous man, an idealist.

«Every seaside town has at least one guy like this, the one who doesn’t back out, the one who buys you a drink, who knows all the songs, always the first to climb a tree or a ship shroud. Everyone knows him, down at the harbor, everyone calls him by his name».

LUC IANO B IANCIARDI Garibaldi

NON FICTION - CLASSICS155 pages

LUC IANO B IANCIARDI / 1922 - 1971has worked as a teacher, librarian, journalist, translator,

sport and tv commentator. His literary works are permea-

ted with a harsh criticism towards post-war Italian society,

and Bianciardi was involved in first person in the promo-

tion of culture amongst workers. With his sharp and bitter

remarks on the cultural establishment, he foreshadowed the

current crisis of culture becoming a sort of posthumous hero

of the precarious workers in the field of arts and publishing.

With an afterword by Giancarlo De Cataldo

NEW TITLEoctober 2020

Naples, August 11, 2011: a merchant ship crashes a small fishing vessel, during a fishing expedi-tion. A fledgling journalist – the only one not on holiday in that burning summer – must follow the case that will end with the conviction of the only surviving fisherman. The young reporter foresees a tangle of reticence and shadows behind this tragic incident and, obsessed with the activities of the sea giants, he starts to investigate on his own, connecting na-mes, places and depositions in relation to an im-pressively long list of incidents. Another disaster on the coast of Livorno, a reverse gone wrong in the port of Genoa causing the collapse of a tower in 2013, a fire at the lighthouse in Saint Lucia estuary (South Africa), near a conservation area for the safeguard of hippos, crocodiles and 115 different species of water birds, plus other in-cidents in Alexandria (Egypt) and Reggio Cala-bria. Wrong manoeuvres, burning or out of or-der vessels, and awful environmental disasters with one thing in common: each ship involved was named Jolly. From an apparently simple fishing incident, the author finds a shady net of traffics and inte-rests, exposing the faults and the damages cau-sed by an entire economic system that broke down: the global circulation of goods, transpor-ted mostly by sea, the illegal waste disposal, the constant movement of chemical, toxic and ra-dioactive drums.Goldfishes and sharks is the story of an investi-gation but also of a personal and professional growth.

SANDRO D I DOMENICOGoldfishes And Sharks


«And my mind goes to a sh ip popu la ted by f i sh ske le tons , thousands o f k i lometres f rom here . On the meta l sheet worn out by the sun , you can s t i l l read “Jo l ly” . I t had to d isappear o f f the face o f the ear th . Now there is noth ing but a wounded hu l l , a t tacked by rust .»

SANDRO D I DOMENICO / 1982is a freelance journalist. He worked as a reporter

for Corriere della Sera, L’Espresso, BBC and other

newspapers. He specializes in video investigative

reports. He has been awarded at the International

Journalism Festival in 2009 and with the DIG Award

in 2018.

STEPHEN KING: From the Book to the ScreenEditEd by Giacomo calzoni

NEW TITLEaugust 2020


There is no contemporary author whose bo-oks were brought to the screens as many ti-mes as Stephen King.

In this volume, a selection of authors and critics provides an overview on the many movie and tv adaptions of King’s novels: from the homages of great genre authors such as Carpenter, Romero, Cronenberg to the Kubrick’s masterpiece Shining; from the quality craft of the two directors who bet-ter than anyone else captured King’s spirit (Rob Reiner with Stand By Me and Misery, and Frank Darabont with The Shawshank Re-demption and The Green Mile) to the revolu-tion of tv shows.

A thorough and accurate collection of essays about the onscreen presence of a great master of contemporary literature, perhaps the most popular and beloved au-thor in the whole world.

GIACOMO CALZONI is a movie critic specializing in horror and fantasy.

He writes for several magazines and edited the vo-

lume Dario Argento: Love and Horror. He’s a

contributor for Il Mereghetti, the most important

Italian movie encyclopaedia.

A group of critics retrace the long and troubled love story between Stephen King and the movie industry.

A book that will delight movie lovers as well as devoted King’s readers.

"Readers can eas i ly choose which mov ie to rewatch and d iscuss thanks to the anal is is and the s tor ies narrated by the essay is ts in th is vo lume. " Luca Crovi - i l Giornale

LUCA BR IASCOAmericanabooks, authors and storiEs from contEmporary amErica

BACKLIST TITLEjuly 2020


After the great success of the first edition, we are publishing a new version of this gallery of illustrious portraits originated from the attentive listening to the Ameri-can literature that marked the entire career of Luca Briasco as an editor, translator and journalist. Briasco leads us into a rich and curious path of reading and inquiry.

To the original forty authors, which work and poetics are presented through the fo-cal lens of one of their writings – from The Floating Opera by John Barth to Tenth of De-cember by George Saunders, from Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis to American Tabloid by James Ellroy, passing by Stephen King, Jo-nathan Lethem, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and arriving to Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road – Bria-sco added twenty new portraits, including very recent titles such as Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli.

LUCA BRIASCO / 1964americanist and editorial director of minimum fax,

together with Mattia Carratello, edited La Lettera-

tura Americana dal 1900 a oggi (Einaudi 2011).

He worked for many years as editor for Einaudi

Stile Libero and, as editorial director of Fanucci,

he invented the book series Avant-Pop and he publi-

shed, as first title in the collection, Schegge d’A-

merica. Nuove avanguardie letterarie. Briasco

is also the Italian voice of Joe R. Lansdale, Howard

Marks, Paul Harding, Richard Powers, Jim Thomp-

son, J.G. Ballard, Daniel Mendelsohn and Stephen

King.

"A rea l s tar-spangled tour de force through which we can come across the best o f Amer ican l i te rature . " La Stampa

"A por t ra i t o f the Amer ican cu l ture . " I l Sole 24 Ore

"Th is book , o f apparent “ l i te rary cr i t i c ism” , reveals i tse l f as an invest igat ion fu l l o f s tor ies . "I l Venerdì di Repubblica

From one of the most distinguished Italian americanists, a gallery of marvellous protraits, an essential guide that will lead you into the territory of the great literature.

BACKLIST TITLEapril 2020

We live in strange times. Our world is shocked by a wave of nihilist populism and terrorism, projected into a science-fiction future of voya-ges on Mars and transhumanism, threatened by the climatic apocalypse: in short, our world seems to be out of control. In the last decade, wi-thout realizing it, we entered in a hypermodern age, an age made of dizzying acceleration and post-human horizons in which the familiar con-tours of reality changed too quickly so that we can keep up to date. From Brexit to the global warming, from mass migration to the search for life in the solar sy-stem and beyond it, the intimate weirdness of the hypermodernity tells us about a progressive weakening of the sense of home as a place pro-tected from the external threats. Today we live a crises of real and metaphoric living. We are exposed to the logics of digital capitalism and to the threats of an obscurity where human meanings cease to exist. This line between human and machine, human and ani-mal, internal and external, is where the weird-ness of our times proliferates.

By mixing personal essay and cultural criti-cism, going through the London of the Brexit and the territories of the anthropocene, and ra-ging from literature, art and politic storytelling, To Be Homeless extends the reasoning begun by Mark Fisher in The Weird And The Eerie on the con-dition of living in strange times.

The starting point is the awareness that the only way to embrace the weirdness of present times, outside and inside ourselves, is that of understanding the historical, psychological and cultural meaning.

GIANLUCA D ID INONowhere to BeOn Living In Strange Times


GIANLUCA D ID INO / 1985writes for Esquire, Internazionale, IL del Sole 24 Ore, Il

Mucchio Selvaggio, Il Tascabile and Prismo.

Gianluca didino starts from mark fishEr to ExplorE thE wEirdnEss of our timE, to undErstand a world that is lEss and lEss rEcoGnizablE and familiar, both in its thrEats and in its promisEs.

"G ian luca D id ino is a br i l l iant and very aware essay is t . " Corriere della Sera

BACKLIST TITLEmarch 2020

Jorge Maria Bergoglio is the first Jesuit pope in history. He ascended to the Ponti-fical Chair after one of the most dramatic crisis of the history of the Catholic Church, and marked, right from the very first pu-blic gestures and statements, a radical di-scontinuity with those who preceded him, relaunching the idea of a Church capable of being “field hospital”, projecting itself into the external world and facing with decision and realism those big problems that are destroying our contemporaneity: unemployment and job insecurity, the en-vironmental emergency, the proliferation of the migratory phenomena and the expo-nential growth of the poor and rejected pe-ople, in every latitude.

Leonardo Becchetti has a profound know-ledge of both Jesuitism and the principles of economy (and its latest evolution). In Bergoglionomics, he questions Bergoglio’s thoughts, ranging from the revolutionary encyclical like the Laudato si’ to the memo-rable speech provided in front of the wor-kers of the factory Ilva in Genoa.

The author explains the revolutionary im-pact on the political scene deep-rooted in the small things of everyday life; he exalts the generativity, intended as “path towards future” and towards greater and greater re-alization and fullness of human commu-nity. And he formulates, starting from his own experience in the sectors of civil eco-nomy and ethical finance, a range of solu-tions and ideas that could transform into re-ality the highest and progressive principles of the Bergoglionomics.

LEONARDO BECCHETTI Bergoglionomics The "sober" revoluTion of pope francis


a riGorous and limpid Examination of popE francis, pErfEct to undErstand thE rEasons that makE thE “bErGolionomics” so currEnt and rEvolutionary as to disturb thE stronGEst powErs.

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HIGHLIGHT TITLEoctober 2019

A journey of 104 kilometers on a two-way street, caught between the Ionian Sea and the Aspromonte slopes: the path from Reg-gio to Siderno is only one hour and a half long, but Calabria branches into five conti-nents and more than forty years of crimes.From the homicide of the very powerful CEO of the Italian State Railways, Lodovico Ligato, to the maxi laundering operations in Hong Kong; from the privileged relations with Colombian narcos to the brutal assas-sination of the journalist Jàn Kuciak, in Slo-vakia; from the biggest ecstasy shipment of all times hidden in Melbourne port, to the wars that are bringing bloodsheds to Mon-tréal and Toronto: “driving on Route 106 means to go back to the source of the glo-bal phenomenon of the 'ndrangheta”.Undercover agents, sons of innocent vi-ctims, fourth generation criminals that only know violence, corrupt officials and cleaned-up businessmen lead us down the route that generated one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet. An organization capable of cele-brating ancestral rituals of a crying Virgin Mary while pulling off reckless financial international operations worth million of euros.Route 106 is a journey in the history and psicogeography. Deciphering the minds of the ‘ndrangheta affiliates is its end point.

ANTONIO TAL IA

Route 106Italy’s ’NdraNgheta hIghway

sIxty-FIve MIles oF Blood, death, aNd orgaNIzed CrIMe

NON FICTION - REPORTAGE200 pages

a JournEy throuGh thE sEcrEt roads of thE 'NDRANGHETA, thE most powErful mafia-typE orGanizEd crimE Group at a Global lEvEl.

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Blessing Verlag / Germany Czarne / Poland

Cser Kiado / Hungary

“ In the very crowded cata logue of « ’ndrangheto logy», Route 106 is a book that can speak even to neophytes and to those who are not fans o f th is genre . I t ’ s c lear f rom the narrat ive cho ice : the arch i tecture o f a t rave l s tory , the ident i f i cat ion o f a map for the or ientat ion a long the road . ” la Repubblica

“Route 106 is I ta ly , I ta ly in the wor ld . ” Tuttol ibri / La Stampa

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ANTONIO TAL IAgrew in a cosmopolitan family and has been lucky enough to travel and learn foreign languages since his chil-

dhood. So, when he became a journalist he immediately chose to work with foreign affairs.

He worked for seven years in Beijing as a news correspondent for an Italian press agency: during this period

he worked on different stories related to crime like:

• the gang that, from Beijing, controlled football betting all over the world;

• the money laundering between Italy and China;

• the rise of Jihadism in Indonesia and the training of special forces in Jakarta;

• Silvio Berlusconi’s shell company in Hong Kong;

• the money laundering of the ‘ndrangheta in Hong Kong.

Once back in Italy, he worked for three years as a crime reporter for the same press agency, and he worked on

the international proliferation of the ‘ndrangheta.

He now works as co-author of Nessun Luogo è Lontano (“Nowhere is Far Away”), a foreign affairs broadcast

of Radio24, and Io Sono il Cattivo (“I am the bad guy”), a broadcast dedicated to portraying international

terrorists and criminals on the same radio and on Audible.

THE PEOPLEMost of the people born and grown in Reggio Calabria between the end of the 70’s and the mid 90’s run away as soon as possible. All these people share a “survivor mentality”. They attended primary and secondary schools during a period in which the war between clans produced an average of 100 victims a year, and our city was synonym of the most infamous crime: kidnapping.

THE ROUTERoute 106 is a wealth of stories and characters, but it remains an “elsewhere” even for those who know it, while people who go down it for the first time go through a cultural shock. Landscapes characterized by abandoned villages, slow pace, accents that change within miles, a deep beauty mixed with a vague feeling of threat. Everything maintains a peculiar impenetrability that hasn’t changed in years.

THE ASTONISHMENTAs the power of criminal Calabria families grew, I found some splinters of Route 106 even ten of kilometers away, and I noticed an incredible adaptability of these models and these characters. But the root was always the same, and was undecipherable to those who didn’t live in that context.

THE AMBIVALENCEUnder Route 106, out in the open air, a secret Route 106 runs, made of family branches and lines that spread everywhere. This ambivalence also characterizes the inhabitants, capable of a sort of “biculturalism” depending on the context in which they operate.

HIGHLIGHT TITLEoctober 2019

“if you want to know how powErful and orGanizEd thE ‘ndranGhEta is all ovEr thE world, you should rEad routE 106.”

massimo carlotto

BACKLIST TITLEapril 2016

Economy is a complex and absolutelyinexact science, where the stakes are veryhigh. Most of our happiness and eventhe future survival of our species dependon the study of the relation between personsand markets, that is the social infrastructurebehind the economical system.

Becc het t i g ives us access to afa sc i nat i ng a nd de c i s ive world .

Seven chapters, seven steps to understandthe nature of companies and their creationof va lue, t he world of f inance and,above all, its enormous potentialities toserve people, which remain unexploited.

We t hen a r r ive to t he idea of wel -fare by asking ourselves to which tar -get we shou ld p oi nt : i nc r ea se , de -c r e a s e , s u s t a i n a b l e h a p p i n e s s ?

T he volume ends w ith an inv itat ionto fol low t he pat h on l i ne . We a l l t o g e t h e r , h o p e f u l l y , w i l l w r i t ethe future of economics, by developinga s o r t o f c o l l e c t i v e u n i v e r s a lintelligence through confrontations.

LEONARDO BECCHETTI

Economy in Seven Steps Persons, market, and welfare


LEONARDO BECCHETT I / 1965teaches Political economics at the University Tor Vergata

of Rome and he is the scientific director of the Foundation

Achille Grandi. He is editorialist for Avvenire, author of

his blog «La felicità sostenibile» on Repubblica.it. From

2013 he is president of the technical-scientific committee

of Next – Nuova economia per tutti. Among his publica-

tions, we should remember Economy in Seven Steps

(2016, minimum fax).

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