Don't tell me you're afraid - Joziba Katotisela

This novel was published in 2014 by the Italian publishing house Filtrinelly, one of the largest and most prestigious Italian publishers. Within a few months, it sold more than one hundred thousand copies, a strange phenomenon for the book sales movement in Italy. The novel then won valuable literary awards, most notably the "Carlo Levi" literary prize and the "Lo Strega" prize, the most important and prestigious literary award in Italy, for young writers. The novel was quickly translated into all European languages, received notable praise in American cultural circles, and currently work is underway to turn it into a film. "Cattocila succeeded in inviting us to share these intimate feelings under harsh and unknown conditions. It stirred in our consciences the importance of storytelling in sharing the dream and the nightmare. This is the literary style I see capable of telling the great epic of our contemporary daily life: asylum, migration, and the Mediterranean." The famous Italian novelist Irri De Luca. "The writer was able to document a true story that imagination cannot invent like it. And he immersed us in suspense on its pages, holding our breath and feeling that we bear part of the responsibility for the disasters happening on the other side of the world." The Italian novelist Roberto Saviano, author of the novel Gomorrah. Number of pages: 271 Publisher: Midan Publications.