Bug

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With the wicked humor and imagination that made readers fall in love with his novel I Am God, Giacomo Sartori brings us a madcap story of family dysfunction, (dis)ability, intelligent robots, bees, and a family of misfit savants living outside the bounds. 

In the singular world of the young, deaf narrator of Bug, there are just a handful of people who try to understand him when he gets into trouble at school. His father, a data analyst for Nutella whose real job is to pinpoint terrorists, is clueless about humans in real life. His brilliant brother, called IQ in public and Robin Hood in the hackersphere, has his back but is ever busier training his robot. His grandfather, a retired anarchist-guerilla-turned-nematologist, chides him for misbehaving when he takes him hunting for worms. Meanwhile, his Buddhist beekeeper mother, ordinarily his closest confidante, has been in a coma ever since a terrible car accident. 

Just when the family’s survival in their converted chicken coop seems most precarious, someone—or something—new enters his life: Bug. This self-declared “fast friend” seems to know all about his family and has some creative, if not strictly legal, ideas about how to help . . .


Praise for Bug

“A witty tale of family resilience and a dangerous, homemade AI bot…. the characters’ antics escalate in inventive and unexpected ways. This is worth a spin.”Publishers Weekly


“A lonely boy befriends a charming but dangerous robot in Giacomo Sartori’s science fiction novel Bug. . . . The prose is lively, intense, and full of perceptive similes. The boy’s voice is unique and memorable as he records his daily adventures at school and at home. . . . Whether real or imagined or both, the boy’s adventures show him to be resilient, vulnerable, caring, and inquisitive—but above all else, he is a neglected child who wants his mother back.”—Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews


“With wry attention to the gorgeous frailty of human behavior and a wicked sense of humor, Sartori brings us a family that is utterly unremarkable and unforgettable. Living in a chicken coop as his family goes through emotional and financial turmoil, the narrator, a ten-year-old boy, pulls the reader into his head. When language fails him (‘...words lend themselves without restraint to confecting colossal lies, you might even say they enjoy it.’), he turns to an unpredictable online friend. With the same messy heartbeat he gave us in I Am God, Sartori's newest novel is pure delight.”—Shawn, Mara, and Marisa, Chapter One Book Store (Hamilton, MT)

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The novelist, poet and dramatist Giacomo Sartori was born in 1958 in Trento in the Alpine northeast of Italy near the Austrian border. An agronomist, he is a soil specialist whose unusual day job has shaped a distinctive concrete and poetic literary style. He has worked abroad with international development agencies in a number of countries, and has taught at the Università di Trento. He was over 30 when he began writing, and has since published seven novels and four collections of stories as well as poetry and texts for the stage. Bug is his second novel to be translated into English by Frederika Randall, along with I Am God, which was a Financial Times Best Book of 2019 and won the 2019 Foreword INDIE Gold Award for Literary Fiction. He’s an editor of the literary collective Nazione Indiana and contributes to the blog www.nazioneindiana.com. He lives in Paris and Trento.

Frederika Randall (New Castle, Pennsylvania, 1948–2020) was a writer, reporter and translator. She grew up in Pittsburgh and lived in Italy for 30 years (also New York and London). She worked as a cultural journalist for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation and the Italian weekly Internazionale among others. Her translations include Luigi Meneghello’s Deliver Us; Guido Morselli’s The Communist and Dissipatio H. G.; the epic tale of the Risorgimento, Ippolito Nievo’s Confessions of An Italian; as well as fiction by Davide Orecchio, Igiaba Scego, Ottavio Cappellani and Helena Janeczek. Further translations include historian Sergio Luzzatto’s The Body of Il Duce, his Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age, for which she and the author shared the Cundill Prize for Historical Literature in 2011, and Luzzatto’s Primo Levi’s Resistance, 2016, shortlisted for the 2017 Italian Prose in Translation Award. Her translation of Giacomo Sartori’s I Am God won the 2019 Foreword INDIE Gold Award for Literary Fiction. Other awards include a 2009 PEN-Heim Translation Grant, and a Bogliasco Fellowship, 2013. She died in Rome in May 2020.

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