Beauty and the Inferno
Author(s): Roberto Saviano
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 corruption and fear. Beauty and the Inferno is a searing polemic that encompasses Saviano's vision of life and of art, of the good to be found in humanity and the evil inherent in power. His commitment to truth resonates from every page.
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Winner of Le Prix Livre Europeen / Europe Book Prize, Essay Category 2010.
'A man determined to describe the world exactly as he finds it, and in words calculated to rouse the passion of his readers' Matthew Hoffman, Independent. 'It is good to be reminded of the raw bravery of the Savianos of this world and to salute them for the sacrifices they have made in their challenges to power' Duncan Campbell, Guardian.
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.
General Fields
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- : Quercus Publishing Plc
- : Quercus Publishing Plc
- : 0.182
- : 01 March 2012
- : 198mm X 132mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Roberto Saviano
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 288
