'Read this important book' - The Guardian

Seeking the truth behind organized crime in Naples, Roberto Saviano bravely brings to light the monstrous activities and far-reaching influence of the notorious Camorra - locally known as 'the System'.

Unveiling the Camorra's involvement in high fashion to illegal drugs and even toxic waste disposal, Gomorrah unflinchingly explores the syndicate's iron grip on the Neapolitan coast, stretching beyond traditional depictions of Italian life.

The book oscillates between exhilarating investigative journalism and a poignant memoir, painting both a factual and emotional picture of life in the shadow of organized crime. Saviano's courageous work has earned him global acclaim . . . and police protection.

This is not just a story; it's a dramatic reveal of a dark criminal reality - which will shatter your understanding of Naples' hidden underbelly.

Now part of the Picador Collection.

About the Author
Roberto Saviano was born in 1979 and studied philosophy at the University of Naples. His novel The Piranhas earned widespread acclaim and was adapted as a major motion picture, which won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlinale. Gomorrah, his first book, has won many awards, including the prestigious 2006 Viareggio Literary Award. It was adapted into a play; a film, which won the Grand Prix du Jury at Cannes; and a television series.

Reviews
Powerful and poetic * Sunday Telegraph *
This crushing testimonial is the most important book to come out of Italy in years . . . After reading Gomorrah, it becomes impossible to see Italy, and the global market, in the same way again * The New York Times *
This is a kaleidoscopic personal testimony rooted in a visceral rage and revulsion at what organized crime has done to one of the most beautiful places on earth . . . Read this important book * The Guardian *
One of the most enthralling and distrubing books written on organized crime * The Economist *
Roberto Saviano's horrifying book paints organised crime as it really is. Forget Vito Corleone; forget Ray Liotta in Goodfellas . . . as an insight into a terrifying world by a remarkable investigative journalist, it is riveting. * Mail on Sunday *
Astonishing . . . the eyewitness accounts he brings to the page - stories of murderous brutality and devastating debasement - could have been told by one of Dashiell Hammett's chilly protagonists * Washington Post *
[Roberto Saviano] is in grave danger of being shot, stabbed, blown up and done away with because he has had the courage and the recklessness to spill a large number of beans about the Camorra, the Mafia of Naples . . . The greater his book's fame, the more irritating it has become for his subjects * Independent *
This expose of Naples's Mob, a sensation in Italy, opens with a scene of carnage you won't forget * Conde Nast Traveller *
This brave account of the most organised of all Italy's crime fraternities demands respect. Saviano's devastating account of his homeland is highly emotional . . . His descriptions of the lawless violent world of Naples are both gritty and sentimental, a poetry of cruelty. -- Sunday Telegraph
A brave expose of the gangland hell that is tearing Naples apart. A powerful work of reportage, Gomorrah became a literary sensation when it appeared in Italy last year . . . The stakes are high. Part economic analysis, part social history, part cri de coeur, this crushing testimonial is the most important book to come out of Italy in years. Like Conrad's London, Saviano's Naples is one of the world's dark places. He tugged a loose thread in the fabric of Italian bourgeois respectability and kept pulling until nothing was left * Scotsman *
An extraordinarily powerful book. With its pages of gritty reportage and low-life legwork, Gomorrah recreates a truly evil sense of menace . . . Naples, one-time Arcady of Bourbon kings and queens, emerges here as disaffected, dying. If you love this city, as I do, Gomorrah will fill you with dismay * Evening Standard *



Book Information
ISBN 9781035062324
Author Roberto Saviano
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan