I'm Not Scared

The hottest summer of the twentieth century. A tiny community of five houses in the middle of wheat fields. While the adults shelter indoors, six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside.

In the midst of that sea of golden wheat, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he daren't tell anyone about it. To come to terms with it, he will have to draw strength from his own imagination and sense of humanity. The reader witnesses a dual story: the one seen through Michele's eyes, and the tragedy involving the adults of this isolated hamlet. The result is an immensely powerful, lyrical and skillfully narrated novel.

Its atmosphere is reminiscent of Tom Sawyer, Stephen King's Stand By Me, and Italo Calvino's Italian Fairy Tales.