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I'm Not Scared (Italian: Io non ho paura, lit. I Am Not Afraid) is a 2003 Italian crime mystery thriller film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. Francesa Marciano and Niccolò Ammaniti wrote the script, basing it on Ammaniti's successful 2001 Italian novel with the same name.
The novel takes place in 1978 in a fictitious Southern Italian village called Acqua Traverse. Michele, the nine-year-old protagonist, loses a race against the other village children to an abandoned house in the countryside.
- Niccolò Ammaniti
- 2001
Jun 4, 2021 · I’m Not Scared is a book that won one of Italy’s prestigious awards, Viareggio-Repaci, and it has been translated into more than thirty languages. It exquisitely describes the collision between the innocent world of children and the material world of adults.
Apr 23, 2004 · April 23, 2004. 4 min read. Michele is a 10-year-old boy whose summer is unfolding as one perfect day after another. He lives in a rural district in southern Italy, and spends his days exploring the countryside with his friends. One day they go poking about an old abandoned house, and later he returns alone to look for his sister’s lost glasses.
In I’m not Scared, Niccolo Ammaniti explores the corruption of the adult world through the eyes of the nine-year old narrator, Michele Amitrano, who chances upon a kidnapped child left to rot in a dilapidated house. The story charts Michele’s descent into the adult world of cruelty, greed and corruption and his subsequent dilemma.
The voice of Michele, the narrator, as he unfolds the shocking events of the summer of 1978 in Southern Italy is refreshingly youthful and engaging. His discovery of the actions of those whom he thought he knew signal the end of his childhood and his initiation into a world where greed and cruelty are commonplace.
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Feb 1, 2003 · In this immensely powerful, lyrical and skillfully narrated novel, set in southern Italy, nine year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he daren’t tell anyone about it. Read an exclusive excerpt at BookBrowse today. The hottest summer of the twentieth century. A tiny community of five houses in the middle of wheat fields.
