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Beauty and the Inferno by Roberto Saviano
Category: History
Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger.
Beauty and the Inferno by Roberto Saviano
Category: World
Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno, winner of the European Book Award 2010, also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important collection includes essays across a remarkably wide field ...Show more
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano; Virginia Jewiss (Translator)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Misha Glenny. Since Gomorrah was first published in Italy in 2006, Roberto Saviano has received death threats and he has been assigned police protection. A ground-breaking study and a searing expose, Gomorrah is the astonishing true story of the renowned crime organization, the ...Show more
Gomorrah - A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano
Category: History
"A "New York Times "Notable Book of the Year"""""A groundbreaking, unprecedented bestseller in Italy, Roberto Saviano's insider account traces the decline of the city of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network more powerful and violent than the Mafia. The Camorra is an elaborate ...Show more
Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano
Category: History
Now with a new preface to mark the ten year anniversary of publication, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller which has to date sold 750,000 copies in Italy alone. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has ...Show more
Gomorrah : Italy's Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano (tr from Italian Virginia Jewiss)
Category: History
Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many death threats from the Gamorra that he has been a ...Show more
Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano
Category: True Crime
This is a dangerous, politically explosive international literary sensation. Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller, and has to date sold 650,000 copies in Italy alone. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author ...Show more
Malcarne: Married to the Mob by Roberto Saviano
Category: True Crime
"Malacarne" is a stark portrait of the Mafia and its organization: the Cosa Nostra, the Ndrangheta, and the Camorra. Photographer Alberto Giuliani's images convey the influence of the Mafia on the life and culture of the people in the different regions of Italy, These are exclusive, authentic, unsparing ...Show more
My Italians - True Stories of Crime and Courage by Roberto Saviano
Category: History
From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this is a deeply personal and candid portrait of Italy today: a place of trafficking and toxic waste, where votes can be bought and sold, where organized crime ravages both north and south - yet also where many courageous individuals defy the system ...Show more
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez, Roberto Saviano
Category: True Crime
The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to Anabel HernaÌndez, Narcoland has been a publishing and political sensation in Mexico. ...Show more
Outsiders by Roberto Saviano
Category: Fiction
These stories are linked by common themes of belonging, dislocation and identity, and together they take the pulse of a country in turmoil. In 'The Opposite of Death' Roberto Saviano writes about a town in southern Italy haunted by the war in Afghanistan, where one by one its sons are dying. Carlo Luc ...Show more
Savage Kiss by Roberto Saviano
Category: Fiction
Nicolas Fiorilla and his gang of children - his paranza - control the squares of Forcella after their rapid rise to power. But it isn't easy being at the top.Now that the Piranhas have power in the city, Nicolas must undermine the old families of the Camorra and remain united among themselves. Every par ...Show more