Manituana was written in the 2004-2007 period and was published in Italy in March 2007. It is the first episode of an 18th-century pan-Atlantic trilogy which we'll complete with no hurry.

Manituana reached #4 in the Italian best-seller charts. The novel has been translated into Spanish and French, and is at the centre of a complex transmedia project whose details can be found on the official website.

"Set during the Revolutionary War, Manituana blends fact and fiction in a story that centers around a New World family of mixed British and Native American descent. The Johnson-Brant clan lives in a world that is familiar but not immediately of its time: hunter-gathering and Indian cosmology are part of a way of life that also includes violin-playing and living in stone houses rather than teepees. With fleeting glimpses of historical figures, set-piece battle narratives and epic wilderness scenes, Manituana weaves the chaos of the civil war and the founding of a new nation into a story on the heroic scale of The Last of the Mohicans, and with a cult appeal similar to Mark Danielewski’s House of Leaves."