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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime PDF

232 Pages·2008·1.22 MB·English
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Piero Pompili Roberto Saviano was born in 1979 and studied philosophy at the University of Naples. Gomorrah, his first book, has won many awards, including the prestigious 2006 Viareggio Literary Prize. After its publication, he was placed under police protection. GOMORRAH. Copyright © 2006 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., Milan. Translation copyright © 2007 by Virginia Jewiss. Maps copyright © 2007 by Jeffrey L. Ward. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. www.picadorusa.com Picador® is a U.S. registered trademark and is used by Farrar, Straus and Giroux under license from Pan Books Limited. For information on Picador Reading Group Guides, please contact Picador. E-mail: To S., damn it Comprehension … means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be. —Hannah Arendt Winners have no shame, no matter how they win. —Niccolò Machiavelli People are worms and they have to stay worms. —from a wiretapped conversation The world is yours. —Scarface, 1983 GOMORRAH A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System ROBERTO SAVIANO Translated from the Italian by Virginia Jewiss Picador Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York CONTENTS Part One The Port Angelina Jolie The System The Secondigliano War Women Part Two Kalashnikov Cement Don Peppino Diana Hollywood Aberdeen, Mondragone Land of Fires PART ONE

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