Roberto Saviano
1) Savage kiss
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"A follow-up to The Piranhas. Italy under the rule of the Camorra, a crime organization more powerful and violent than the Mafia. A novel of gang warfare and a young man's dark desire to rise to the top of Naples's underworld"--
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Over fifteen years after Gomorrah's release, Saviano's life has been under constant threat from would be assassins who forced him to leave his native Italy and to live under constant police protection.
For the first time since then, Saviano shares his deepest thoughts and experiences of early life in Naples, witnessing the power and violence of Camorra firsthand, his current existence living under guard, all the while continuing to call attention...
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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...
4) Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
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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,...
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2018.
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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...
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Panorama de narrativas volume 952
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2017.
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Primera edición.
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Español
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Nápoles, hoy, es una ciudad bella y terrible: es el reino de la camorra, y los chicos que crecen allí lo hacen bajo su influjo. Una pandilla formada por diez de ellos se lanza a la conquista de la ciudad: provienen de familias normales, les gusta lucir calzado de marca y tatuarse el símbolo de su banda. Liderados por Nicolas Fiorillo, alias Marajá, el grupo de adolescentes utiliza las motos como los forajidos de las películas del Oeste usaban...
9) Gridalo
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2020.
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Prima edizione.
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Italiano
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"In queste pagine Roberto Saviano raccoglie tanti destini in una grande avventura che vede protagonisti tutti noi, la nostra libertàdi pensiero e di espressione. Sono storie narrate 'in negativo', di cui scopriamo come in un thriller i meccanismi nascosti, le dinamiche pericolose. Ipazia, Giordano Bruno, Anna Achmatova, Robert Capa, Joseph Goebbels, Hulk Hogan, Jean Seberg, Martin Luther King, George Floyd, i bambini siriani e i nostri figli laureati...
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[2014]
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Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, willfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children. In this ground-breaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated journalist Lydia Cacho follows the...
11) Ferrante fever
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[2019]
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Italiano
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The world-hopping documentary journeys between New York City's cultural hub and Ferrante's native Italy, exploring how an anonymous author's visceral tales of love and friendship gained such an enthusiastic following.
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[2020]
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Italiano
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Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano, this film follows fifteen-year-old Nicola who lives with his mother and younger brother in a neighborhood of Naples that has been controlled by the Camorra mafia for centuries. Dreaming of a life luxurious with designer clothing and elite nightclub bottle service, Nicola and his gullible group of friends begin selling drugs, a door into the violent, power-hungry world of crime that begins to threaten their innocence,...
13) Gomorrah
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Criterion collection volume 493
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[2009]
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Italiano
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Don Ciro is a timid middleman, who distributes money to the families of imprisoned clan members. One day he is ambushed by two angry clan members with an obvious grudge against their fellows. He later offers to defect to their side and leads them to the location where he is given the money for distribution. Totò is a 13-year-old grocery delivery boy who observes some drug dealers ditching some drugs and a gun when running from the police. He returns...
14) Gomorrah
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[2009]
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Italiano
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Power, money and blood: these are the values that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day. They have practically no choice, and are forced to obey the rules of the "system, " the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a "normal" life. Five stories are woven together in this violent scenario, set in a cruel world, and one that is deeply rooted in reality.
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