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Le stagioni si avvicendano sempre uguali a Casedisopra, fra la tabaccheria della Nerina e le due caserme – dei Carabinieri e della Forestale – che invano vigilano sulla trattoria-bar di Benito, dove anche quando la stagione della caccia è chiusa il maiale servito in tavola ha un curioso retrogusto di cinghiale... Eppure ultimamente qualcosa sta cambiando. In paese compaiono ragazzi e ragazze dagli abiti colorati, calzano sandali di cuoio intrecciati a mano e vendono i prodotti del bosco e della pastorizia: sono gli Elfi, che vivono in piccole comunità isolate sulla montagna, senza elettricità, praticando il baratto e ospitando chiunque bussi alla loro porta senza porre domande. Forse potranno essere loro a prendersi cura del territorio appenninico, sempre più trascurato e spopolato, mentre sul corpo della Forestale incombe il destino di venire assorbito nell’Arma dei Carabinieri? Marco Gherardini, detto Poiana, ispettore della Forestale, non fa in tempo a immalinconirsi con questi pensieri che ecco, nell’aria risuonano due spari proprio quando nemmeno i cacciatori avrebbero licenza di esploderli. E di lì a poco, ai piedi di un dirupo viene trovato un cadavere: proprio un giovane elfo, si direbbe. Inizia per Poiana l’indagine più difficile della sua carriera. Perché potrebbe essere l’ultima, ma non solo: perché si troverà a sospettare degli amici più cari, perché dovrà ammettere che l’intuito femminile può essere imbattibile, perché per trovare la direzione giusta dovrà essere pronto a perdersi nel bosco…
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Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important Cantautori. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics artist. Guccini also worked as actor, soundtrack composer, lexicographer and dialectologist. Guccini moved to Pàvana during World War II, then returned to Modena where he spent his teenage years and established his musical career. His debut album, Folk beat n. 1, was released in 1967, but the first success was in 1972 with the album Radici. He was harshly criticised after releasing Stanze di vita quotidiana, and answered to his critics with the song "L'avvelenata". His studio albums production slowed down in the nineties and 2000s, but his live albums continued being successful. His lyrics have been praised for their poetic and literary value and have been used in schools as an example of modern poetry. Guccini has gained the appreciation of critics and fans, who regard him as an iconic figure.[1] He has received several awards for his works; an asteroid, a cactus species and a butterfly subspecies have been named after him. The main instrument in most of his songs is the acoustic guitar.
He is an Italian mystery writer and playwright. He worked also a theatre impresario, actor and playwright. As a writer, his most famous character is Sarti Antonio[1] (surname written first), a Bolognese police detective, characterized by a strong morality but mediocre investigative capabilities; in his tales he is often helped by the sharper mind of Rosas, a smart university student. Sarti's stories have been turned into a television series in 1991, followed by an Italian-German co-production of six films, broadcast in April and May 1994. He was also the protagonist of a comics series published in the Italian magazine Orient Express. More recently, Macchiavelli has written a series of detective novels in collaboration with singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini having a Carabinieri maresciallo, Benedetto Santovito, as the protagonist. Machiavelli's books have been published in France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, Japan, Romania and other countries.
