Review: The Crossroads by Niccol Ammaniti »
Posted By Deidre 12 months ago in NewsNiccolò Ammaniti is one of Italy's brightest literary stars. His fiction combines tense horror with the blackest comedy and displays a knowing intelligence. Ammaniti's allusions to 1970s film and B-movie schlock place him at the vanguard of Italy's so-called giovani cannibali - young cannibals - who draw variously on kung-fu videos, comics and pop music (Bryan "Ferrari" Ferry) to conjure a disaffected modern Italy. Simona Vinci's claustrophobic recent novel, A Game We Play, about under-age sex, is a good example of the genre.
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