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Francesa marciano and niccolo ammaniti wrote the script, basing it on niccolo ammanitis successful 2001 italian novel with the same name. Winner of the viareggiorepaci prize, i m not scared is a devastatingly authentic portrayal of childhood. Im not scared by niccolo ammaniti overdrive rakuten. Im not scared is a powerful story that takes place in a fictional italian countryside, acqua traverse, the summer of 1978. In 2003, director gabriele salvatores adapted the novel into a film of the same name. Adobe digital editions this is a free app specially developed for ebooks. Pdf im not scared book by niccolo ammaniti free download. Niccolo ammaniti, author, jonathan hunt, translator, trans. Published by canongate books 30032006 2006 isbn 10. It is the heatwave summer of 1978, still remembered in. The reading of the book guides you in a unique way through the process necessary to access a characters subjective experience. At thirtyfour, he was the youngest ever winner of the prestigious viareggiorepaci prize for im not scared which has already been sold into twenty languages. Ammanitis short staccato sentences effectively describe the isolation and simplicity of rural subsistence, while long passages of direct dialogue touchingly portray the childrens naive perceptions.