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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. 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.
Contents
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.
