- Paperback: 301 pages
- Publisher: Picador USA; Reprint edition (25 Nov 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312427794
- ISBN-13: 978-0312427795
- Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 14 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 727,104 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Financial Times
'...strength of Gomorrah lies in the angry passion with which he denounces the grip of organised crime.'
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Misha Glenny, Sunday Times, 13 Jan 2008
`a superb piece of investigative reporting ... Saviano is without question a winning young man with real potential as a writer'
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104 of 108 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Roberto Saviano is a 28 year old man, who grew up in Secondigliano, a rundown of 10,000 inhabitants on the fringe of Naples, of which 2468 residents are incarcerated for mafia and camorra related activities and the rest have simply been abandoned to their fate. It is also the trading centre through which about 80% of Europe's cocaine is filtered through, packaged, distributed, marketed, cut, and sold on. This is an unpalatable reality few outside of Italy understand, care about or are able to believe. And this little book has opened a floodgates, no less for the Italians who have always known the extent of the Camorra's corruption on all levels of italian and international society, but who, out of fear, or inability to get close, have not been able to speak about it in this much detail. Roberto's life has been largely destroyed by the writing of this book. He has had to change identity, separate from his family and lives under 24 hour police escort. But for those who live here, in the shadow of mafia, surrounded by the stink of corruption, of Naples' uncollected rubbish, of silent witnesses and a society still living in a dark middle age marked with bloodshed and hopelessness this book has opened a floodgates which may hope may finally lift the cover on a tragedy that affects not only the entire country, but all of Europe, and the world.
Please read this. The Camorra is not a Scorcese movie, the mafia is not some antiquated clichè. We live with it, and our country is slowly dying because of it. This is not a work of fiction, sadly.
Please read this. The Camorra is not a Scorcese movie, the mafia is not some antiquated clichè. We live with it, and our country is slowly dying because of it. This is not a work of fiction, sadly.
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Saviano's insight on this deadly subject made me wonder a few times about his personal relationship with the people he so openly denounces. This is a 28-year-old courageous man who has decided to put his life on the line to cast some light into the darkest area of Italy's social and political life. When I read the first chapter, I had the distinct feeling that what I had in my hands was a truly ground-breaking book. When I read about the links between organised crime and global trade, and to such a scale as well, I could understand why Italy is in the G8 in spite of its disastrous economy and almost irreversible ideological void. Who thinks that organised crime is a phenomenon contained within the Italian peninsula, must think again. Eye-opening and inspirational.
44 of 48 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have read this book in the original language a year ago and it is still quite clear in my mind. The courageous Roberto Saviano is a master in telling true stories , and this book gives you a powerful insight of the Neapolitan mafia and the wider implications for us all in an extremely readable & compelling manner. A MUST for anyone interested in Italy and Italian current affairs. Once you start reading it you cannot put it down!
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The truth laid bare
With a trip to Naples pending I thought I'd do some travel research and stumbled upon an English copy of Gomorrah in a bookshop in Trento, Northern Italy. Read more
Published 8 months ago by El Pan
A must read!
This is a book that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime. Very eye-opening and touching at moments. Read more
Published 8 months ago by aj
Here today gone Gomorrah!
This author obviously has a great deal of knowledge about his subject which may be of interest to those concerned with tracking down members the Mafia but for the lay person it... Read more
Published 9 months ago by magpie
Brilliant, brave
It's very difficult to give this book a bad review when you know the history behind it, that the young author is hiding for his life from the crime gangs he describes. Read more
Published 14 months ago by mike y
Gomorrah
Apart from describing the inner workings of the Camorra in his native surroundings in much detail, Roberto Saviano is strongest when he is able to transmit his absolute disgust and... Read more
Published 16 months ago by revwiev
Brave and shocking...but highly recommended
More insight regarding the Mafia than I ever thought I would ever get.
Roberto Saviano was either very brave or very naive thinking that infiltrating the Mafia would not have... Read more
Roberto Saviano was either very brave or very naive thinking that infiltrating the Mafia would not have... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mental Food
BORING
It seems to me unless suffering from inadequate translation that this is a boring dreary book written by somebody who jumps from one thing to another without reason and why a... Read more
Published 18 months ago by James
Informative, but only so
Roberto Saviano is a very good author, and for this task at hand, telling the tale of the Naples Mafia, he was very detailed in his description, making it easy for the reader to... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Charles Wahab
Napoli /The World
GOMORRAH - the question is this; how does anyone live a good life under such a corrupt society?
Organised crime has not simply infiltrated everyday life. Read more
Organised crime has not simply infiltrated everyday life. Read more
Published on 25 April 2010 by Gav. Z Moron
Soul moving, brilliant
Great book written with good language.
It is ubelievable what I read in that book. It would never occured for me how nearly whole the Europe is controlled by mafias. Read more
It is ubelievable what I read in that book. It would never occured for me how nearly whole the Europe is controlled by mafias. Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2010 by Magdalena Czaja
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