Niccolò Ammaniti

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat-fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous he dare not tell a soul. It is a secret that will force Michele to question everything and …

As God Commands, also known as The Crossroads, is a novel by Niccolò Ammaniti. It has won the 2007 Strega Prize. In 2008, director Gabriele Salvatores adapted the novel into a film of the same name.