Beauty and the Inferno - Softcover

Roberto Saviano

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857050109 ISBN 13: 9780857050106

Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc, 2012

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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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'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. --Reviews.

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WINNER OF THE EUROPEAN BOOK AWARD. The writings collected in Beauty and the Inferno tackle universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. The breadth of Saviano's interests is remarkable, his heroes as diverse as Donnie Brasco and Lionel Messi, but as with the bestselling Gomorrah, his fearless and unflinching condemnation of the Italian mafia takes centre stage. Implicit in his tributes to writers, musicians, sportsmen and journalist 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. Above all, his commitment to truth resonates from every page.

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