Research Catalog

Gomorrah

Title

Gomorrah / Roberto Saviano ; translated from the Italian by Virginia Jewiss.

Author

Saviano, Roberto, 1979-

Publication

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Supplementary Content

Available Online

Sample text

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFE 08-4109	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Details

Description

301 p. : map; 24 cm.

Summary

A major bestseller in Italy, this is a heroic young man's impassioned 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 instance, has the highest murder rate in all of Europe and why cancer levels there have skyrocketed in recent years. Author Saviano, who saw his first murder at age 14, worked under cover to investigate the Camorra's control of Chinese factories contracted to manufacture fashion goods, legally and illegally, for distribution around the world, and relates how the abusive handling of toxic waste is causing devastating pollution not only for Naples but also China and Somalia.--From publisher description.

Uniform Title

Gomorra. English

Alternative Title

Gomorra.

Subjects

Camorra > Economic aspects
Camorra > Italy

Note

"Originally published in 2006 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., Italy, as Gomorra"--T.p. verso.

Contents

The Port -- Angelina Jolie -- The system -- The Secondigliano war -- Women -- Kalashnikov -- Cement -- Don Peppino Diana -- Hollywood -- Aberdeen, Mondragone -- Land of fires.

Call Number