Book description
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 LAquila, 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 Herrs 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 mafias
death threats, and the final essay in the collection celebrates the life
of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. 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 LAquila, 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 Herrs 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 mafias death threats, and the final essay in
the collection celebrates the life of the Russian journalist Anna
Politkovskaya.
