I’ll Tell You First
by Marino Magliani
Description
A solitary farmer, Leo Vialetti lives in a valley in Liguria. He is passionate about olives and graft, but he is also a poacher. And he has an obsession: to buy a crumbling villa that the City will auction in 2024. The owner is a supposedly dead desaparecido called Raul Porti. In 1976, before his disappearance, Raul had been Leo’s tutor and their lessons took place in the same villa that now Leo, almost sixty years old, is willing to purchase.
Once he has sold his best piece of land in order to take part of the auction, Leo decides to go looking for Raul in Argentina, and this journey will lead him to discoveries that he never thought possible.
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Winner of the 2019
‘Selezione bancarella’ prize and the 2019 Augusto Monti’ prize.
Shortlisted to the 2019 ‘Premio Alassio - Un Autore per l’Europa’.
Film rights have been optioned.
Author lives in Netherlands.
Reviews
“A writer who has lived a thousand lives.”
«Robinson - la Repubblica»
“There are two kinds of writers in this world: the ones who stay at home, dreaming about imaginary lands that they try to visit through their minds; and the ones who travel everywhere to touch with their bare hands the reality that surrounds us. Marino Magliani is the ultimate traveller of our literary scene, and he never stands still.”
«il Secolo XIX»
“After a series of exquisite novels, Magliani finally wrote his masterpiece.”
«Il Fatto Quotidiano»
“A beatiful, unpredictable writing.”
«Nazione Indiana»
“Tristano, Dantés, Pereira, Chatwin and Calvino:
dressed up with brand new guises, all of these voices
resonate inside a novel by Magliani.”
«la Repubblica»
“Writers like Magliani make their own literary genre.”
«Avvenire»
Author Biography
Marino Magliani was born in 1960. He is a novelist and translator from Spanish and Dutch. He lives in Netherlands, by the North Sea. His novels have been published by Sironi, Instar Libri and Longanesi. He has been honored with several lifetime achievement awards.
Some of his novels and short-stories have been translated into English, Dutch, Spanish, French and German.
His latest book has been published by Chiarelettere in 2018 and it has been awarded with the Selezione Bancarella prize and Premio Augusto Monti.
Film rights have been optioned.
He won the Premio Lerici Pea (2012), the Premio Frontiere in 2010 and in 2017, the Premio L’Albatros (2018), and the Premio Novaro (2019).
Otago Literary Agency
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- Publisher Chiarelettere
- Publication Date August 2018
- Orginal LanguageItalian
- ISBN/Identifier 9788832960228
- Publication Country or regionItaly
- Primary Price 17.50 EUR
- Pages330
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitlePrima che te lo dicano altri
- Copyright Year2018
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