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Beauty and the Inferno by Roberto Saviano
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno, winner of the European Book Award 2010, also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important collection includes essays across a remarkably wide field ...Show more
Gomorrah : Italy's Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano (tr from Italian Virginia Jewiss)
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many death threats from the Gamorra that he has been a ...Show more
The Piranhas by Roberto Saviano
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"With the openhearted rashness that belongs to every true writer, Saviano returns to tell the story of the fierce and grieving heart of Naples." --Elena Ferrante In Gomorrah, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, Roberto Saviano revealed a true, devastating portrait of Naples, Italy und ...Show more
The Ring: & The Opposite of Death by Roberto Saviano
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In Italy's impoverished south, choices are limited. Rules and traditions are more powerful than the lives of individuals, and young Italians who stand on the right side of the law still find themselves on the frontline. In 'The Opposite of Death', Maria is a seventeen-year-old widow before she has even ...Show more
Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano
30.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: very good
From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this searing expose of dirty money and the drug trade reveals how they are at the heart of our lives, our economy, and our world. "The most important book of the year ...Here it is, laid bare: cartel as corporation, corporation as cartel; cocaine as ...Show more
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