I'm Not Scared

I'm Not Scared (Italian: Io non ho paura) is a novel by Niccolò Ammaniti. It is the third novel published by Ammaniti.In 2003, director Gabriele Salvatores adapted the novel into a film of the same name. The novel is about a boy in a small Southern Italian town in 1978 who discovers that his father and the rest of the townspeople have kidnapped a boy from a wealthy Northern family. The story portrays the protagonist’s loss of childhood innocence and his transition to acting upon his own conscience, which leads him to go against his own father and the environment in which he grew up. The novel was originally published in Italian in 2001 and was first published in English in 2003. Ammaniti’s work received generally positive reviews from literary critics in both Italian and English language publications.