Don't say you're scared

Author's name: Giuseppe Catozzella

This novel was published in 2014 by Feltrinelli, one of Italy's largest and most established publishing houses. Within a few months, it sold more than 100,000 copies, a phenomenon unusual in Italian book sales.

The novel then won valuable literary awards, most notably the Carlo Levi Literary Prize and the Le Strega Prize, the most important and prestigious literary award in Italy for young writers. The novel was quickly translated into all European languages ​​and received notable praise in American cultural circles. Currently, work is underway to adapt it into a film . Catozzella succeeded in inviting us to share these intimate feelings under harsh and unknown conditions. He stirred in our consciences the importance of narrative in sharing dreams and nightmares. This is the literary style that I believe is capable of telling the great epic that we live through today: asylum, migration, and the Mediterranean.

The famous Italian novelist Erri De Luca

The writer was able to document a true story that no imagination could match. The suspense in its pages made us hold our breath and feel that we bear part of the responsibility for the disasters that occur on the other side of the world.