RECESSION-HIT ITALIANS TURN TO ESCAPIST FICTION THIS CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR

 Recession-hit Italians looked to the comfort that only make-believe worlds can provide this past Christmas, as feel-good fiction took the top spots in a December 2014 national ranking of the 30 bestselling titles in bookstores.According to data from Informazioni Editoriali collated for the Italian Association of Publishers (Associazione Italiana Editori - AIE), a sentimental page-turner published by Longanesi, ‘Avrò cura di te’ (I will take care of you), co-authored by bestselling writers Massimo Gramellini and Chiara Gamberale, topped the national ...


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