Beauty and the Inferno Essays

Name: Beauty and the Inferno Essays
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ISBN: 9781844679508

ISBN-10: 1844679500

ISBN-13: 9781844679508

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Authors: Roberto Saviano, Oonagh Stranksy

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Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano's 2006 expose of the Camorra mafia of Naples, became an international bestseller and was made into an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed also sent him into hiding, from which he is just emerging.Beauty and the Inferno, Saviano's first book since Gomorrah, ranges in subject from his meeting with the real-life Donnie Brasco, to thelegendary South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba; and from sharing the Nobel Academy platform with Salman Rushdie, to life on the run. But present throughout each essay is a sense of Saviano's isolation, which infuses his words with anger, exceptional insight and tragedy.

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List price: $24.95
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 9/18/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

OONAGH STRANSKY is the translator of works by Carlo Lucarelli and Giuseppe Pontiggia.



Preface: The Dangers of Reading


South



Letter to My Land



Miriam Makeba: The Anger of the Brotherhood



From Scampia to Cannes



Fighting Evil with Art



Truth, Despite All Else, Exists



When the Earth Shudders, Cement Kills


Men



Brittle Bones



Playing It All



Tatanka Skatenato



The Man That Was Donnie Brasco



Siani, a True Journalist



The Lighthouse Keeper



In the Name of the Law and the Daughter



Felicia


Business



The Magnificent Merchandise



Constructing, Conquering



The Plague and Gold


War



Vollmann Syndrome



Apocalypse Vietnam



Today Is Yours Forever


North



The Ghosts of Nobel



Speech at the Swedish Academy



The Demon and Life



The infinite Conjecture



Never Again in a World Apart



He Who Writes Dies


Acknowledgements



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