Product Description: It's Christmas Eve and twenty-seven-year-old Manuela Paris is returning home to a seaside town outside Rome. Years ago, she left to become a soldier-a platoon commander in the Afghan desert-fleeing an unhappy, rebellious adolescence...read more

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A groundbreaking account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra describes how this murderous organized crime network and its international associates have gained control of the Neapolitan region in such areas as construction, high fashion, illegal drug trafficking, and toxic waste disposal and its influence on every aspect of Neopolitan life.

After arriving at Ellis Island, two poor children from Southern Italy, Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine, struggle to survive in New York City amid the poverty, opportunity, and crime of Little Italy. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.