In beautiful and pristine prose/poetical writing, Martino captures an ancient time with a mixture of global characters that, nonetheless, still prevail in today's time both in action and spirit. Let's just say, that the writer reflects a universal time without borders in an allegorical fable. Hallucinatory and majestic, peacefully moving from inner to outer realms, this author transcends all the characters into a flight from a practical reality to an ethereal abode: the place of the heart. Very unique and strange and real at the same time, Martino parallels the reality of an odd life on earth trying to comprehend existence with a way that invites all comfortably to look inwards and see their own story fused in EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL. The setting and the time of the story move from rural to urban time in action while displaying the same inner content of both. Human beings are human beings after all. And as Martino always wants to do, he takes the inner content of life and exposes it in a gentle but exaggerated manner in the style of hyperbole and magical/realism with all its flaws. Somehow, the final outcome of the shape is all too real. Somehow, everything is beautiful as the title of this novel declares. By looking at the intricacies of each unique character, the reader is most likely to come out of this novel and into another understanding of their own unique flavor as a human