Nottetempo at TIBE 2011

Nottetempo will present its titles at Taipei Book Fair. Among them are:
1.„Quando il drago muove la coda” ("When the dragon moves its tail") by Elisa Rossi. The story takes place between Milan and Shanghai. Liu Hong, an advanced technologies engineer, is a beautiful woman, skilled in martial arts and IT systems. Officially she has gone to Milan to upgrade the communications system in the port of Shanghai, but she has also been engaged to investigate an illegal financial operation carried out by a high ranking Chinese official. And she’s on the trail of something else: suspicious deaths and the theft of genetically altered viruses eventually involve the police, an Italian acupuncturist and an elderly Chinese master, helped along by consultation of the I Ching, the ancient Chinese book of oracles. A compelling and exciting tale that takes the reader into both Chinese traditional culture and contemporary reality.
2."Le seduzione dell’inverno" ("The seductions of winter") by Lidia Ravera – a novel shortlisted for Strega Award 2008 and Recanati Award 2008.
Michael leads the life of a middle-aged single man: messy house, undone bed and a kitchen in which the dishes pile up. One day he wakes up and finds his apartment transformed, the table has been layed, classical music spreading softly: the author of such revolution is Sophie, a cultured and discreet woman and a tireless housekeeper. The lady offers him her service taking advantage of the absence of Michael’s ex-wife for whom she declares to work. Sophie’s seduction wins over Michael’s winterly heart and for the first time he abandons himself to passion. The harder is the second awaking: the house is empty, lonely and silent. The man, left on his own, slowly pieces the story together of a cruel bet, of a game in which he was the unconscious pawn and the prize for the winner in a match played by women. With her ironic and sharp perspective, her extraordinary narrative talent, Lidia Ravera gifts us with a novel where unexpected events are the stages of a peculiar and late “sentimental education”.

Nottetempo is an independent publishing house founded in 2002 with around 150 titles in its catalogue. The editorial project is to combine high quality literary fiction with the pleasure of reading, good literature with the idea of intensity and lightness. This is expressed also by the layout that ensures readability and lightness.
Our authors include Philip Larkin, Iris Murdoch, Alberto Manguel, Jean-Philip Toussaint, Milena Agus, Naomi Alderman, Juan José Saer, Umberto Eco and Lee Stringer.