He is in a hospital for terminal diseases. This is not really different from the background of other books by the same writer, where the Italian sociopolitical situation is exaggerated and distorted with humorous, but chilling effect.Įlianto is a young teenager badly ill. If they guess the majority of the answers they get electricity, water, TV, warming, otherwise they are excluded for the day from the usual supply. Moreover every day every family is called to vote the daily poll. These games (as everything else) is cheated in order to create the best outcomes for better ruling the country.
The country is run by a computer every year twenty president candidates challenge themselves in a sort of living (well ‘deadly’ could be more appropriate) reality show, the one who survives wins and can rule the country for a year.Įvery some years sorts of tournament games are held to recognize the autonomy to counties. The story takes place in a country named Tristalia (in English could sound like “Sadtaly”). The story of Elianto is so poetic, so evocative and dramatic that the fact that is so well told is just its natural consequence. Wow seems something like “Lord of the Rings”! Then I turned to the back cover but I was already hooked and I already knew in my heart that soon some money would have left my wallet.īenni always satisfied my reading taste and this time was even better. This time I opened the book and found a strange, hand drawn map covering two pages. This time I am very happy not being so wise because otherwise I wouldn’t have stumbled in Elianto by Stefano Benni and I would have lost this good reading for God knows how much time yet.Usually a book hooks me though the back cover lines (or the inside cover leaflet in case of a hardback). Having a reading queue the length of a mid-sized transatlantic and being easily captured by a book, I should avoid bookstores like hell.
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