Gomorrah
Häftad bok. Pan Books Ltd. 2008. 301 sidor.
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In the spring of 2006, what began as a reporter's investigation of Neapolitan organized crime made international news headlines. The vigilante journalist, Roberto Saviano, compiled the most thorough account to date of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, which exerts a malign influence on contemporary Italy. At great personal risk, Saviano worked undercover in his native city in Camorra-controlled factories, construction sites and even as a waiter at a mob wedding.
He recalls seeing his first murder at the age of fourteen, and how his own father, a doctor, suffered a brutal beating for trying to aid an eighteen-year-old victim who had been left for dead in the street.
Unforgettable and utterly compelling, Gomorrah is a nightmare journey into a world of devastating brutality.
'A kaleidoscopic personal testimony rooted in a visceral rage and revulsion at what organized crime has done to one of the most beautiful places on earth' John Dickie, Guardian
'An extraordinarily powerful book. With its pages of gritty reportage and low-life legwork, Gomorrah recreates a truly evil sense of menace' lan Thomson, Evening Standard
'Part economic analysis, part social history, part cri de coeur, this crushing testimonial is the most important book to come out of Italy in years... I could not get this brave book out of my head' Scotsman.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780330450997
- Titel
- Gomorrah
- Författare
- Roberto Saviano
- Förlag
- Pan Books Ltd
- Utgivningsår
- 2008
- Omfång
- 301 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 130 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 20 mm
- Vikt
- 217 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- 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 Camorra that he has been assigned police protection. Known by insiders as 'the System', the Camorra, an organized crime network with a global reach and large stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs and toxic-waste disposal, exerts a malign grip on cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast is the deciding factor in why Campania has the highest murder rate in all of Europe and why cancer levels there have skyrocketed in recent years. In pursuit of his subject, Saviano worked as an assistant at a Chinese textile manufacturer and on a construction site, both controlled by 'the System', and as a waiter at a Camorra wedding. Born in Naples, he recalls seeing his first murder at the age of fourteen, and how his own father, a doctor, suffered a brutal beating for trying to help an eighteen-year-old victim, left for dead in the street. "Gomorrah" is both a bold and engrossing piece of investigative writing and one heroic young man's impassioned story of a place under the rule of a murderous organization.
