Beauty and the Inferno

Saviano Roberto
Innbundet / 2011 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780857050083
Publisert
2011-05-26
Utgiver
Quercus Publishing; MacLehose Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Oversetter
Stransky Oonagh
Stransky Oonagh
Forfatter
Saviano Roberto

Om bidragsyterne

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.

Beauty and the Inferno

Saviano Roberto
Innbundet / 2011 / Engelsk
Saviano Roberto
Innbundet / 2011 / Engelsk
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'It is good to be reminded of the raw bravery of the Savianos of this world and to salute them for sacrifices they have made in their challenges to power' Duncan Campbell, Guardian. 'Its tone is angry and urgent ... the essays in Beauty and the Inferno are in some sense a celebration of bravery and an expression of rage against corruption and cowardice ... Saviano appears to be on a crusade to educate and galvanize Italy' Caroline Moorhead, TLS.

Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important collection includes essays on the legacy of the earthquake at L'Aquila, a town at risk of becoming overrun by mafia; on boxing as an escape route; on the life of the legendary South African jazz singer, Miriam Makeba; on an encounter with Salman Rushdie, and a tribute to Frank Miller, author of the graphic novel 300; on Michael Herr's Dispatches. One essay reflects on the aftermath of the publication of his book and subsequent film, Gomorrah, and how his life has been conditioned by the mafia's death threats, and the final essay in the collection celebrates the life of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
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Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger.
Preface: The Dangers of Reading. SOUTH: Letter to My Land; Miriam Makeba - The Anger of the Brotherhood; From Scampia to Cannes; Fighting Evil with Art; Truth, Despite All Else, Exists; When the Earth Shudders, Cement Kills. MEN: Brittle Bones; Playing It All; Tatanka Skatenato; The Man That Was Donnie Brasco; Siani, a True Journalist; The Lighthouse Keeper; In the Name of the Law and the Daughter; Felicia. BUSINESS: The Magnificent Merchandise; Constructing, Conquering; The Plague and Gold; Vollmann Syndrome; Apocalypse Vietnam; Today Is Yours Forever. NORTH: The Ghosts of Nobel; Speech at the Swedish Academy; The Demon and Life; The Infinite Conjecture; Never Again in a World Apart; He Who Writes Dies. Acknowledgements. Appendix I: Sources. Appendix II: Glossary.
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'It is good to be reminded of the raw bravery of the Savianos of this world and to salute them for sacrifices they have made in their challenges to power' Duncan Campbell, Guardian. 'Its tone is angry and urgent ... the essays in Beauty and the Inferno are in some sense a celebration of bravery and an expression of rage against corruption and cowardice ... Saviano appears to be on a crusade to educate and galvanize Italy' Caroline Moorhead, TLS.

Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important collection includes essays on the legacy of the earthquake at L'Aquila, a town at risk of becoming overrun by mafia; on boxing as an escape route; on the life of the legendary South African jazz singer, Miriam Makeba; on an encounter with Salman Rushdie, and a tribute to Frank Miller, author of the graphic novel 300; on Michael Herr's Dispatches. One essay reflects on the aftermath of the publication of his book and subsequent film, Gomorrah, and how his life has been conditioned by the mafia's death threats, and the final essay in the collection celebrates the life of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
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Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger.
Preface: The Dangers of Reading. SOUTH: Letter to My Land; Miriam Makeba - The Anger of the Brotherhood; From Scampia to Cannes; Fighting Evil with Art; Truth, Despite All Else, Exists; When the Earth Shudders, Cement Kills. MEN: Brittle Bones; Playing It All; Tatanka Skatenato; The Man That Was Donnie Brasco; Siani, a True Journalist; The Lighthouse Keeper; In the Name of the Law and the Daughter; Felicia. BUSINESS: The Magnificent Merchandise; Constructing, Conquering; The Plague and Gold; Vollmann Syndrome; Apocalypse Vietnam; Today Is Yours Forever. NORTH: The Ghosts of Nobel; Speech at the Swedish Academy; The Demon and Life; The Infinite Conjecture; Never Again in a World Apart; He Who Writes Dies. Acknowledgements. Appendix I: Sources. Appendix II: Glossary.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780857050083
Publisert
2011-05-26
Utgiver
Quercus Publishing; MacLehose Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Oversetter
Stransky Oonagh
Stransky Oonagh
Forfatter
Saviano Roberto

Om bidragsyterne

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.

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