Roberto Saviano
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English
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Roberto Saviano returns to the streets of Naples and the boy bosses who run them in Savage Kiss, the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Piranhas, the bestselling novel and major motion picture
Nicolas Fiorillo and his gang of children-his paranza-control the squares of Forcella after their rapid rise to power. But it isn't easy being at the top.
Now that the Piranhas have power in the city, Nicolas must undermine the old families of the Camorra...
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English
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In Gomorrah, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, Roberto Saviano revealed a true, devastating portrait of Naples, Italy under the rule of the Camorra, a crime organization more powerful and violent than the Mafia. In The Piranhas, the international bestselling author returns to his home city with an audiobook about gang warfare and a young man's dark desire to rise to the top of Naples's underworld.
Nicolas Fiorillo is a brilliant...
3) Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
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English
Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An analysis of the international cocaine trade and its less-understood role in the global economy explores its rules, armies and influence on everyday life, detailing the arrangements among leading cartels and the violent extent of their power.
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Series
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English
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"In this devastating and resilient graphic memoir, Saviano shares his experiences of witnessing the power and violence of the Camorra firsthand and the nightmarish anxieties of living under armed guard, all while courageously continuing to call attention to the deeply rooted crime and corruption that plagues not only his hometown, but also many Italian and foreign cities where criminal organizations have stretched their tentacles."--cover page 4
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
318 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered of plates : color illustations, color maps ; 19 cm
Language
Español
Description
Lydia Cacho es un símbolo del periodismo valiente. En este libro Lydia Llega más allá de las fronteras de México. Ataviada con disfraces diversos, viaja desde los bajos fondos mexicanos de la Merced hasta los centros nocturnos y los prostibulos de Japón, pasando por muchos otros nudos de la inmensa telaraña de mafiosos, empresarios, policías, jueces y políticos que manejan el negocio en el mundo. Lydia escucha, para que sean escuchadas, las...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 345 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Nicolas Fiorillo is a brilliant and ambitious fifteen-year-old from the slums of Naples, eager to make his mark and to acquire power and the money that comes with it. With nine friends, he sets out to create a new paranza, or gang. Together they roam the streets on their motorscooters, learning how to break into the network of small-time hoodlums that controls drug-dealing and petty crime in the city. They learn to cheat and to steal, to shoot semiautomatic...
8) Gomorra
Series
Criterion collection volume 493
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p. ; 19 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
Five disparate tales of Naples' mafia underworld, where men and children are caught up in a corrupt system that extends from the housing projects to the world of haute couture. Adapted from the best-selling exposé by undercover Italian reporter, Roberto Saviano