The Little Wagons is a fictional novel that captures the turmoil of late
nineteenth-century Sicily, when the reverse alchemy of greed and
violence forever changed the emerging Cosa Nostra from benevolent gold
into corrupted base-metal. The horrors of slavery and oppression forged
revolutions and rebels in equal measure, and within this cornucopia of
nepotism and brutality, hostility and passion are pitted against endemic
hegemony. With protagonists as fiery as Mount Etna itself, and equally
unpredictable, The Little Wagons shows how poverty and despair become
the omnipotent catalysts of vengeful change.