Ander Island is a novel to be read in one breath , a trip spasmodic and sometimes surreal in an equatorial island recently discovered and colonized. The pursuit of happiness characterizes the course of the characters that roam the island facing the pitfalls due to their understanding of life is not exactly conventional. In all this is part of an attractive female figure serves as a motor and muse for the protagonist , well supported by his friend and colleague Mr. Paker.

The story provides many insights photographing the contemporary society and not sparing criticism. Castagnetti paints a capitalist world and adrift where dreams are difficult to get to but absolutely essential ...

Do not you read the story of Francis Castagnetti as text of tax evasion or childbirth as pure fantasy , the author proposes to enter headlong into a part of the contemporary hedonistic society which has absolutely reached the awareness that will inevitably be driven by a mentality which placed the pleasure as the only deity.

In a world which in recent years has seen an increase in the scandalous way the wealth of the few which dominate the entire planet , in a world where most of the youth does not arise other end of the fun , in a world in which power is coerced by political finance, pass the limits , as was the case in the last century with the totalitarian Nazi and Communist is a temptation that we can hardly escape. And, if at this time the result is the impoverishment of the middle class in developed countries , a tomorrow without any hesitation we will focus on destroying the democratic , civil and human in our history.

Unfortunately a culture "liquid" as that postmodern is not able to probe the dangers of this situation . It is for the literature strike with deadly blows to the stomach now to awaken from slumber in which the mass media are the narcotising, distracting her from the anticipation of danger.

And here is the fate of an island, but the fate of billions of individuals ( Giuliano Ladolfi).