Me and You - Tapa blanda

--"Me and You" sold over 500,000 copies in Italy
-- A #1 bestseller in Italy

"Exuberant and audacious." - "Observer"

"The new Italian word for talent is Ammaniti." - "The Times"

"A fearsomely gifted writer." - "Independent"

"A master storyteller." - "Guardian"

"Europe's hottest novelist." --"Kirkus Reviews"
--A #1 bestseller in Italy

"Immensely engaging . . . Both tender and emotionally arresting, Ammaniti's novel is unforgettable." --"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

"[Niccolo Ammaniti] elegizes adolescence fiercely and sympathetically. His 14-year-old hero, Lorenzo Cumi, is a great character, part Young Werther, part Kurt Cobain . . . ["Me and You"] is scary, lovely and at last a heartbreaker." --"Kirkus Review"

"[Ammaniti] writes with an unadorned style about moral predicaments of the young in small-town Italy . . . Lorenzo reminds an American reader of . . . other teenage misfits from Holden Caulfield to Colin in Alan Sillitoe's "Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner"." -The Arts Fuse

Praise for Niccolo Ammaniti

"Exuberant and audacious." - "Observer" (UK)

"The new Italian word for talent is Ammaniti." - "The Times" (UK)

"A fearsomely gifted writer." - "Independent" (UK)

"A master storyteller." - "Guardian" (UK)

"Europe's hottest novelist." --"Kirkus Reviews"
A #1 bestseller in Italy

"Immensely engaging . . . Both tender and emotionally arresting, Ammaniti's novel is unforgettable." --"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

"[Niccolo Ammaniti] elegizes adolescence fiercely and sympathetically. His 14-year-old hero, Lorenzo Cumi, is a great character, part Young Werther, part Kurt Cobain . . . ["Me and You"] is scary, lovely and at last a heartbreaker." --"Kirkus Review"

"[Ammaniti] writes with an unadorned style about moral predicaments of the young in small-town Italy . . . Lorenzo reminds an American reader of . . . other teenage misfits from Holden Caulfield to Colin in Alan Sillitoe's "Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner"." --The Arts Fuse

"Italian author Niccolo Ammaniti does a lot in 160 pages, including surprise, humor, and frighten you--sometimes simultaneously." --Daily Candy

"Ammaniti's prose is nimble, perceptive and economical . . . There's a lot to love about this book--its reticent empathy, its delicate and pragmatic treatment of addiction, its remarkable use of restricted physical space." --Full Stop

""Me and You" takes a short time to read but offers a memorable experience in a mutual recognition of loneliness and grief." --Curled Up with a Good Book

Praise for Niccolo Ammaniti

"Exuberant and audacious." --"Observer" (UK)

"The new Italian word for talent is Ammaniti." --"The Times" (UK)

"A fearsomely gifted writer." --"Independent" (UK)

"A master storyteller." --"Guardian" (UK)

"Europe's hottest novelist." --"Kirkus Reviews"

Pretending to his socially conscious parents that he has been invited to an exclusive ski vacation with popular kids, 14-year-old misfit Lorenzo anticipates a week of welcome isolation at a family apartment building only to endure psychological confrontation at the hands of his estranged half-sister. Original.