Audimat circus

A poor sap who’s never left his home in the sticks, whose clothes stink of cow dung, is at the centre of an impossible trip around the world in eighty days. This is the stuff of reality television that will have all of America glued to their screens, that will beat viewer records ! The New York television producer nursing this dream is sure of it. But he hasn’t a clue that a few unexpected, and not always so pleasant, events are about to make the ratings go through the roof… As for Sullivan Chance, the improbable hero of this world tour almost despite himself, the point won’t be lost on him… A biting satire of our media-ridden, globalised world.

The writer and translator Thierry Maugenest spent many years in Italy and now lives in Provence. His first novel, Venise.net, has been very well received.