Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano
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 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 organised 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 organisation.
About the Author
Robert Saviano was born in Naples, where he still lives. This is his first book.
Paperback | 320 pages
19.8 x 13 x 2 | 216g
01 Nov 2008
Pan Macmillan
Pan Books
London, United Kingdom
English
0330450999
9780330450997
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover, including very minor scuff marks, and minor scratching, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged, with no creasing or tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.