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1) Savage kiss
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
2) Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
Author
Language
English
Formats
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, for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Archaia
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2015.
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
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...
Author
Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 952
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
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) Gomorrah
Series
Criterion collection volume 493
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Italiano
Description
Links five tales of organized crime and its casualties in Naples.
10) Piranhas
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Italiano
Description
Follows fifteen year-old Nicola, who lives in Naples with his mother and younger brother, as he and his friends begin selling drugs for the local mafia.
11) Gomorrah
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Italiano
Description
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.
12) Ferrante fever
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Italiano
Description
This 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.