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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 be[...]
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 f[...]
In Italy's impoverished south, choices are limited. Rules and traditions are more powerful than the lives of individuals, and young Italians who stand on the right side of the law still find themselves on the frontline. Maria is a seventeen-year-old widow before she has even made it to the altar[...]
Six Italians writing from the margins: these stories are linked by common themes of belonging, dislocation and identity, and together they take the pulse of a country in turmoil.[...]
A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy, "Gomorrah" is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs, and toxic-waste disposa[...]
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 Herna´ndez, Narcoland has been a publishing and political sensation in Mex[...]
Six Italians writing from the margins: these stories are linked by common themes of belonging, dislocation and identity, and together they take the pulse of a country in turmoil.[...]
Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano's 2006 expose of Naples's Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was ostracized by his countrymen and went on the run, changing his location every few months[...]
International bestselling author Roberto Saviano explores the inner workings of the world of drugs and dirty money - its rules and armies - and the true depth of its reach. In many countries, 'zero zero' or double zero flour is the finest, best flour on the market. Among narco-traffickers, then, 'ze[...]
In Italy's impoverished south, choices are limited. Rules and traditions are more powerful than the lives of individuals, and young Italians who stand on the right side of the law still find themselves on the frontline. In 'The Opposite of Death', Maria is a seventeen-year-old widow before she has e[...]
Mafiaen i Napoli - Camorra´en - er Europas mest magtfulde forbryderimperium.
Fra Napoli styres en verdensomspændende og systematisk kopifremstilling af bl.a. designertøj, ure, smykker, som bliver fremstillet illegalt og solgt til Kina for derefter at blive reeksporteret til Veste[...]
Ingen annan kriminell organisation i Europa har så många mord på sitt samvete som camorran i Neapel, som är betydligt våldsammare, mäktigare och mer utbredd än den sicilianska maffian.
Roberto Saviano är född och uppvuxen i Camorraland. Med sin vespa har han åkt runt i orterna [...]
Ingen annan kriminell organisation i Europa har så många mord på sitt samvete som camorran i Neapel, som är betydligt våldsammare, mäktigare och mer utbredd än den sicilianska maffian.
Roberto Saviano är född och uppvuxen i Camorraland. Med sin vespa har han åkt runt i orterna[...]
"New York Times utnämnde Roberto Savianos camorrabok Gomorra till en av de 100 bästa böckerna 2007. Jag utnämner Roberto Savianos bok till världens viktigaste bok de senaste 2007 åren och inom överskådlig framtid. Roberto Savianos bok är inte en journalistisk redogörelse till [...]
I Kärleken är dödens motsats berättar Roberto Saviano om sjuttonåriga Maria som just mist sin pojkvän Enzo. Liksom många andra arbetslösa unga män i Syditalien hade han tagit värvning i armén. Det fredsbevarande uppdraget i Afghanistan skulle finansiera deras förestående bröllop och ut[...]