according to the 2007 Strega Prize for Literature winner Nicole the Los • Armagh Kennedy 's novel . A small town in northeastern Italy , there lived a father and son . Stubborn father , the Reno • praise satisfied unemployment at home, his son, Cristiano is a shy and disturbed young people , often bullied by peers . They live alone , cut off from the world and all people . Only once with high-voltage electric shock accident survived , but from the spirit has become abnormal , crazy mesmerized by God .