True Stories of Crime and Courage

My Italians

From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this is a deeply personal and candid portrait of Italy today: a place of trafficking and toxic waste, where votes can be bought and sold, where organized crime ravages both north and south - yet also where many courageous individuals defy the system, and millions work tirelessly for a better future. 
 
'Saviano is a blazingly vivid and courageous writer' Independent 
 
 'A national hero' Umberto Eco 
 
'Saviano has an astonishing ability to write luminously yet subtly about terrible things' Le Parisien 
 
 'Brave and passionate' Guardian 
 
 'One of the world's finest investigative journalists' GQ

A symbol of the writer as crusader; brave, unyielding, shining a light into some of the world's darkest corners.

After reading Saviano, it becomes impossible to see Italy, and the global market, in the same way again.

Saviano is a blazingly vivid and courageous writer.

Roberto Saviano is an Italian journalist and the author of several books including Zero Zero Zero and the international bestseller Gomorrah, which has sold over ten million copies in fifty languages worldwide. He has been living under police protection since October 2006, following threats received from the criminal organizations that he denounced. In November 2008 Saviano was invited by the Nobel Committee in Stockholm to give a lecture on 'Freedom of Speech and Lawless Violence'.

Roberto Saviano

The most important book of the year ... Here it is, laid bare: cartel as corporation, corporation as cartel; cocaine as pure capitalism ... Saviano realises the brutal truth: that to understand narco-traffic is to understand the modern world ... it is revolutionary

Impassioned . . . a literary style that switches from vivid descriptions of human depravity to a philosophical consideration of the meaning of violence in the modern world.

Vivid . . . lands a resounding thump to the solar plexus

A powerful work of reportage . . . it goes to the heart of the financial sector's dependence on drug capital and its depredations

Saviano has an astonishing ability to write luminously yet subtly about terrible things.

Saviano should be commended for his bravery, and supported by all who share his revulsion.

Roberto Saviano

Praise for Zero Zero Zero

The most important book of the year ... Here it is, laid bare: cartel as corporation, corporation as cartel; cocaine as pure capitalism ... Saviano realises the brutal truth: that to understand narco-traffic is to u ...

Impassioned . . . a literary style that switches from vivid descriptions of human depravity to a philosophical consideration of the meaning of violence in the modern world.

Vivid . . . lands a resounding thump to the solar plexus

The most important book of the year ... Here it is, laid bare: cartel as corporation, corporation as cartel; cocaine as pure capitalism ... Saviano realises the brutal truth: that to understand narco-traffic is to u ...

Impassioned . . . a literary style that switches from vivid descriptions of human depravity to a philosophical consideration of the meaning of violence in the modern world.

Vivid . . . lands a resounding thump to the solar plexus

The most important book of the year ... Here it is, laid bare: cartel as corporation, corporation as cartel; cocaine as pure capitalism ... Saviano realises the brutal truth: that to understand narco-traffic is to u ...

Impassioned . . . a literary style that switches from vivid descriptions of human depravity to a philosophical consideration of the meaning of violence in the modern world.

Vivid . . . lands a resounding thump to the solar plexus

Books by Roberto Saviano

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