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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 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, Roberto 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.
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"Engrossing . . . As much a literary lament as a gritty expose."--"Mother Jones"
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"A literary tour-de-force . . . "Gomorrah"" "is an eyepopping, hair-raising, stomach-turning book."--"The Christian Science Monitor"
"Astonishing . . . gripping . . . [Saviano] exhibits the passion and heroism of a young man."--"The Washington Post"
"The most important book to come out of Italy in years. . . . I could not get this brave book out of my head."--"The New York Times Book Review
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"Astonishing . . . gripping . . . [Saviano] exhibits the passion and heroism of a young man."--"The Washington Post
""Brilliant."--"The Wall Street Journal"
"Read this important book and you will appreciate why Italy is still a country that needs heroes like [Saviano]."--"The Guardian"""(UK)
"An Engrossing book, animated by a fervor that's uncommon in American investigative reporting . . . As much a literary lament as a gritty expose."--"Mother Jones"
"Endlessly eye-opening and sobering."--"Kirkus Reviews"
The most important book to come out of Italy in years. . . . I could not get this brave book out of my head. "The New York Times Book Review"
Astonishing . . . gripping . . . [Saviano] exhibits the passion and heroism of a young man. "The Washington Post"
Brilliant. "The Wall Street Journal"
Read this important book and you will appreciate why Italy is still a country that needs heroes like [Saviano]. "The Guardian (UK)"
An Engrossing book, animated by a fervor that's uncommon in American investigative reporting . . . As much a literary lament as a gritty expose. "Mother Jones"
Endlessly eye-opening and sobering. "Kirkus Reviews""
The most important book to come out of Italy in years. . . . I could not get this brave book out of my head. The New York Times Book Review
Astonishing . . . gripping . . . [Saviano] exhibits the passion and heroism of a young man. The Washington Post
Brilliant. The Wall Street Journal
Read this important book and you will appreciate why Italy is still a country that needs heroes like [Saviano]. The Guardian (UK)
An Engrossing book, animated by a fervor that's uncommon in American investigative reporting . . . As much a literary lament as a gritty expose. Mother Jones
Endlessly eye-opening and sobering. Kirkus Reviews
""The most important book to come out of Italy in years. . . . I could not get this brave book out of my head." --The New York Times Book Review
"Astonishing . . . gripping . . . [Saviano] exhibits the passion and heroism of a young man." --The Washington Post
"Brilliant." --The Wall Street Journal
"Read this important book and you will appreciate why Italy is still a country that needs heroes like [Saviano]." --The Guardian (UK)
"An Engrossing book, animated by a fervor that's uncommon in American investigative reporting . . . As much a literary lament as a gritty expose." --Mother Jones
"Endlessly eye-opening and sobering." --Kirkus Reviews
The explosive international bestseller uncovering the crime syndicate that runs the streets of Naples.
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- Publication date2017
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- ISBN 13 9781509843886
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