<p><b>The international bestselling novel “of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping read…a deft masterpiece with never a false note” (<i>The Guardian</i>, UK).</b></p><p><i>Southern Italy, 1978</i>. In the midst of a relentlessly hot summer, as the adults stay inside tending to their own business, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he doesn’t dare tell a soul. It is a secret that Michele doesn’t fully understand, yet it will force him to question everything and everyone around him, and will bring his innocent world toppling down.</p><p>Both “an exquisite parable” and a tense thriller, I’m Not Scared has become a contemporary classic in Italian literature, read and celebrated the world over (<i>Daily Telegraph</i>, UK).</p>