Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia
by Roberto Saviano | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
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ISBN: Global Overview for this book
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"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 disposal. Known by insiders as "the System," the Camorra affects cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast, and is the deciding factor in why Campania, for instance, 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, a waiter at a Camorra wedding, and on a construction site. A native of the region, 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."
"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 disposal. Known by insiders as "the System," the Camorra affects cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast, and is the deciding factor in why Campania, for instance, 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, a waiter at a Camorra wedding, and on a construction site. A native of the region, 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."
Reserved for vekiki's European Nonfiction Virtual BookBox (originally for round 4 and then for Spring 2013 Round).
Journal Entry 3 by okyrhoe at Virtual Book Box, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Friday, May 10, 2013
Released 10 yrs ago (5/9/2013 UTC) at Virtual Book Box, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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On its way by post to Ireland for leamhliom. Enjoy!
Thank you so much for this book okyrhoe, and also the book string! It arrived safely here in Ireland.