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Beauty and the Inferno
Roberto Saviano
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Description for Beauty and the Inferno
Paperback.
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 of interests, celebrating personal heroes as diverse as Frank Miller and Lionel Messi. However as with the bestselling Gomorrah, his fearless and unflinching condemnation of the mafia takes centre stage. Implicit in Saviano's tributes to writers, musicians, sportsmen and journalists is the message that there is an alternative to living in ... Read more
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 of interests, celebrating personal heroes as diverse as Frank Miller and Lionel Messi. However as with the bestselling Gomorrah, his fearless and unflinching condemnation of the mafia takes centre stage. Implicit in Saviano's tributes to writers, musicians, sportsmen and journalists is the message that there is an alternative to living in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Maclehose Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857050106
SKU
V9780857050106
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Ref
99-10
About Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano writes for La Repubblica as well as many newspapers around the world. After the success of Gomorrah, he received several serious death threats that obliged the Italian government to provide him with 24-hour protection. He has been living in hiding since 2006. Oonagh Stransky's translations have twice been nominated for the Dublin IMPAC Award.
Reviews for Beauty and the Inferno
'He is always erudite, prickly and trenchant' Catholic Herald.
Catholic Herald
'a sad book in many ways because it illustrates the price that can be paid for courageous writing' Guardian.
Guardian
'A man determined to describe the world exactly as he finds it, and in words calculated to rouse the passion of his readers ... Like ... Read more
Catholic Herald
'a sad book in many ways because it illustrates the price that can be paid for courageous writing' Guardian.
Guardian
'A man determined to describe the world exactly as he finds it, and in words calculated to rouse the passion of his readers ... Like ... Read more