Fabio Bartolomei Livres

Al Santamaria is a child prodigy, probably the greatest genius of the twentieth century. So much so he could actually be the one to save humankind from extinction, but first he must solve a more pressing problem, to find a home for his family. Because, truth be told, life has not always been easy for the Santamarias... Caught between their desire for redemption, delusions of grandeur, and paralysed by the inability to believe in their own dreams, the struggles of the Santamarias - like those of the Malaussenes in the series by Daniel Pennac - mirror in microcosm the history of Italy from the 1970s to the present day. But Al is not the type to give up. Overcoming endless trials and tribulations, he will build, bit by bit, a new world for himself and his family, aided only by his big sister Victoria, and whatever resources are available to a child. Resources which in his case are unlimited because, he doesn't know it yet, but he will remain a child forever. We Are Family is an uplifting

Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common to each of these three men is their abject mediocrity. Yet, mediocrity being the mother of outrageous invention, they embark on a project that would be too ambitious in scope for any single one of them, let alone all three together. They decide to flee the city and to open a rustic holiday farmhouse in the Italian countryside outside Naples. Their misconceived endeavor would have been challenging enough for these three unlikely entrepreneurs, but when a local mobster arrives and demands they pay him protection money things go from bad to worse. Now their ordinary (if wrongheaded) attempt to run a small business in an area that organized crime syndicates consider their own becomes a quixotic act of defiance. A "miraculous" Italian comedy that will have readers laughing out loud, Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles marks Fabio Bartolomei's vivid debut.

Frische Landluft, nette Nachbarn, sympathische Gäste – der großstadtgeplagte, krisengeschüttelte Diego hatte es sich so schön vorgestellt: sein neues Leben als Eigentümer eines kleinen italienischen Landhotels. Doch nicht nur, dass seine zwei Mitbesitzer genau so chaotisch und unbedarft sind wie er selbst, auch sonst geht erst einmal alles schief. Und als die drei in einem Akt spontanen Widerstands den örtlichen Mafioso im Keller einsperren und sein Auto im Garten vergraben, kann nur noch ein Wunder helfen, damit am Ende alles gut wird.