The Mystery of the Nameless Letters
Igor De Amicis, Paola Luciani
Burn this book: the boys who saved Doctor Zhivago
Adventure
Historical
Is it worth risking your life for a book?
Boris Pasternak would say yes, because ideas are not born to be hidden or suffocated. His publisher, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, would agree—he managed to publish Doctor Zhivago, evading censorship.
Against the backdrop of this adventurous and thrilling story, worthy of a great spy novel, we follow Nikolai, Anja, and Victor—sixteen-year-olds living in three different historical periods—always teetering on the brink of change.
Publisher:
Feltrinelli
Target:
12+
Year:
2025
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario
Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.
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