by Niccolò Ammaniti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246723516
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«Comme Dieu le veut» is the novel by Niccolò Ammaniti, published by Grasset in paperback (544 pages, in French).
Rino Zena, an unemployed alcoholic and fascist, raises his son Cristiano with violence; social services threaten to separate them. To escape poverty, Rino and two marginal friends plan a robbery. That night, a storm overflows the river and the mud sweeps everything away; the appearance of a young woman will change their lives.
Original Italian work from 2006, «Come Dio comanda»; French translation by Myriem Bouzaher. Strega Prize 2007 and nominated for the Dublin Literary Award 2011.
For readers of contemporary Italian fiction and social noir.
Niccolò Ammaniti is an Italian writer, winner of the Premio Strega in 2007 for As God Commands. He became noted in 2001 with the publication of I'm Not Scared, a novel which was later made into a movie directed by Gabriele Salvatores.
