Alki Zei - Rights Guide

6 R I G H T S G U I D E A L K I Z E I 10+ Granddad the liar 144 pages | 14x20.5cm Anthony is an ordinary ten-year-old boy. A single child, his parents both working long hours, he spends a lot of time with his granddad. He is a quite unusual granddad: a retired actor, who tells a lot of unbelievable life stories that make Anthony believe that he is a liar. However, granddad, an artist of strong humanist beliefs, is being bluntly honest. It’s just hard to believe when his tells him how he had to escape from Greece to Paris during the dictatorship, or how he came to be on the streets of Paris in May of ’68, or even how he was sent to Africa by mistake during World War II. Nevertheless, Anthony adores and admires his grandpa. The only thing he cannot understand is why the old man never talks about granny… Full of emotion, wisdom and humanitarian parables, Alki Zei achieves a fine balance between irony and paradox, simplicity and perfection, humour and reality. • 2010 YOUNG EUROPEANS LITERARY PRIZE (FRANCE) • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 PREMIO STREGA RAGAZZE E RAGAZZI (ITALY) • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2008 “DIAVAZO” MAGAZINE BEST CHILDREN BOOK PRIZE (GREECE) TRANSLATED INTO FRENCH AND ITALIAN. RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD, EXCL. ITALY.