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Original Title: Ti prendo e ti porto via
ISBN: 1841959456 (ISBN13: 9781841959450)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2007)
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I'll Steal You Away Paperback | Pages: 416 pages
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Italian literary superstar Niccolò Ammaniti’s debut novel, I’m Not Scared, prompted gushing praise, hit international best-seller lists, and was made into a smash indie film. With his highly anticipated follow-up, Ammaniti takes his unparalleled empathy for children, his scythe-sharp observations, and his knack for building tension to a whole new level. In a tiny Italian village, a young boy named Pietro is growing up tormented by bullies and ignored by his parents. When an aging playboy, Graziano Biglia, returns to town, a change is in the air: Pietro decides to take on the bullies, his lonely teacher Flora finds romance with the town’s prodigal son, and the inept janitor at the school proclaims his love for his favorite prostitute. But the village isn’t ready for such change, and when Graziano seduces and forgets Flora, both she and Pietro’s tentative hopes seem crushed forever. With great tenderness, Ammaniti shines light on the heart-wrenching failures and quiet redemptions of ordinary people trying to live extraordinary lives. I’ll Steal You Away is a fresh and classic story of a boy learning to be a man that delivers on the promise of Ammaniti’s acclaimed debut.

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Title:I'll Steal You Away
Author:Niccolò Ammaniti
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 416 pages
Published:May 10th 2007 by Canongate U.S. (first published 1999)
Categories:Fiction. European Literature. Italian Literature. Cultural. Italy. Novels. Contemporary. Drama. Roman

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I devoured this book, just like the other two Ammaniti books i've recently read. And for good reason....this author knows how to tell a compelling and heart pulling story like very few other authors know how to do. Ammaniti takes the lives of ordinary people and tells it just how it is. In this book...the dreams and desires and fantasies of the characters take hold of you. I understand the multiple dreams and wishes that Graziano flits to and from like a butterfly from flower to flower. I know

I much preferred 'I'm Not Scared' - this book jumped around so much there was no real focus and I found it hard to care much about any of the characters and despite Pietro being the 'hero' of the book, and despite the ending all relating to his situation at home, his parents and home life were actually shown so little, in fact probably no more than about 20 out of the total 400 pages of the book, that I just couldn't bring myself to understand/forgive/care and just thought Pietro started out

WHEW. cosi intenso ed un po inquietante (INTENSE and a little disturbing). i could not put this book down, and when i read the last line, i almost started crying. ammaniti can tell a story.of course i cannot speak to the translation, but i encourage anyone to give it a shot in english and let me know how is.

Really hot days in Melbourne so good day to get into a good book. Read "Steal You Away" in 1 day and thoroughly enjoyed it. It contains humour, tragedy but also sex, violence, Nigerian prostitues, date-rape drugs, dead donkeys and catapults. The book is set in the Italian town of Ischiano Scalo, a backwater swampy village. The two main characters are Pietro Moroni, a 12 year old boy who is the product of an alcoholic father and a depressed, brutalised mother. He is sensitive intelligent, a loner

So awful I couldn't put it down. Cover to cover with cliches. The young outsider protagonist plays with snakes (thus is 'different') and idolises the older manly protagonist who, if memory serves, has a barrel chest and long-flowing lion-like hair, plays guitar, once had his heart broken and consequently became something of a local Don Juan, drives a motorcycle (or a convertible sports car), has a mum who can cook the 'best Italian', and who pulls the mousey and virginal local schoolteacher who,

I had to use a little willpower to read this all the way through. This is the second translated-from-Italian novel I have started this year, and the second that really didn't thrill me. (The other was My Brilliant Friend, and I didn't finish that one.) I am starting to think that perhaps I just don't like to read books in translation. I kept getting hung up on language. I would read a phrase and think, "What are all the meanings of the phrase that is translated from? What nuances am I missing?"

This book was hard to rate. The writing was good, often charming and funny. However, I was too taken aback by elements of the plot to give this a high rating. Slipping drugs in a woman's drink to seduce her is probably the topper. The story revolves around a bullied boy who has filed a course that would allow him to get out of junior high. He seems destined to be caught in the same cycle that entraps his angry father, his withdrawn mother and dim-witted brother. His solution to get out of his