LISIDRANDA

fantasy trilogy

v L'ALBERO DEL MONDO

v LE TERRE DELL'ANIMA

v LA COPPA DELLA VITA

ARMENIA EDIZIONI, Milan, 2008.

Lisidranda is a place, the only where dwells Hope. Hope that we need so badly, in these times.

This novel’s aim is to rekindle love, respect and care for every life form around us, to try and restore the ancient armony of the Universe to which Humankind belongs.

I combined most ancient myths, histories, and echoes from far away times ; I draw from my knowledge of ancient cultures and religions, and from my own beliefs, developed over the years.

The Earth that I shaped, however, is very “real”: actually, it simply belongs to an earlier turn in the Wheel of Ages. Like nowadays, this Earth is on the Iron Age’s downward slope, the Humankind teetering on the very brink of its extinction – or the step that brings back to the ascending phase of Golden Age…

All the names of my characters and the places come from ancient or peculiar languages; almost all of them are from ancient Gaelic, Sanskrit, and Basque. Actually, I discovered the peculiar beauty and absolute uniqueness of Basque. The name of my heroine, Drisane, means in that language “Sun Daughter”. It’s very satisfying for me to explore and learn new topics, while I make the preparatory work to write a novel.

Obviously “Lisidranda” is a novel alive with emotion and adventure.

Its summary, in a nutshell:

“The Earth’s Spirit is lost. Maybe it was stolen by Elves, the Immortals, when they passed the Portal in the last battle’s wake, leaving Humans to their fate. Nine hundred years afterwards, wastelands replaced the woods, the rivers bring no more water; in the vast Kingdom of Hasgalen, devoted to profit and power, skies are shrouded by everlasting clouds and life is dwindling. Only on the Island of the Western Sea children are still copious, a precious blessing like beauty and peace. That Island is the birthplace of Elir, the Alliance’s Wizard who brings on his own body the map for the Portal, his sister Drisane, who’s the Eye of the forgotten Mother Goddess, and Lisander, the King’s son, whose destiny is into his very name : “He Who’ll Make us Free”.

King Helvdan from Hasgalen steals away the children, this atrocious violence turning the Island of Happiness into the Island of Deads. But twenty years afterwards the Earth’ll find in these boys a glimmer of hope. The salvation shall be pursued through blood and violence, across the Portal; Magic, Faith and Love drive Elir, Drisane, Lisander and the young Elf Faenglor through frightful lands on the road to Lisidranda where, attainable only at the cost of great sacrifice, the gift of Revival lays hidden.”