Come si racconta un popolo? Forse attraverso alcune storie. E sono tante le storie reali, della Sicilia di ieri e di oggi, richiamate da Gaetano Savatteri a comporre il fastoso mosaico di una regione densa di contraddizioni. Eccentrici aristocratici, madri tenaci, inossidabili potenti, donne tormentate, feroci assassini: vite e imprese si mescolano nelle pagine di questo libro in un viaggio curioso nel tempo e nei luoghi della terra di Sicilia, uno spazio "ad alta intensità letteraria", dove la pianta dell'uomo attecchisce nelle sue forme più limpide o barocche.

The wife, after a lifetime spent beside her husband one day goes out and just disappears.
One year later he decides to leave everything behind, Stromboli, the island where they lived, all their things, all their habits, he is ready to go find her. Anna, the old Severino and his hope of bringing her back home.

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into previously unfathomable dimensions - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.

A history of one of humankind's most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium--the book. Revelatory and entertaining in equal measure, Portable Magic will charm and challenge literature lovers of all kinds as it illuminates the transformative power and eternal appeal of the written word.