Summary
This book obtained the 2008 Urania Mondadori Award (the most prestigious Award in Italy for Science Fiction Literature) as best Science Fiction Title of the year.
Motivation of the Jury: A very good thriller, with an excellent, very analytic environment description of a next future – as background. Inside the very well articulated action rhythm of the really pregnant plot of his work, the Author finds the space for a wide, very sensitive reflection about the most genuine kind of human, passionate love.
Plot: Maya, a restless Moscovite teenager pretends to be an e-doll and leads a double life. On the one hand, she’s a lazy student, while on the other, she sells her body to feel loved. Angel, a hermaphrodite e-doll expert in the art of loving meditates upon how to become a human being. The two characters meet in a sex-o-teque and exchange something that will bring them closer to their fulfilment.