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.

In a fictional memoir, Professor Frigerio recalls thirty years of raising a disabled son whose tragic ailments were cased at birth by one doctor's carelessness and describes his wife and other son, in an evocative novel that captures the lives of members of a family dealing at once with a great tragedy and a great love. 20,000 first printing.

A serial killer is terrorising the students of Bologna. Rookie female detective Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case. Only one witness can positively identify the killer and he's blind.

After the death of the pope, cardinals from around the world gather at the Vatican to select a new pontiff, but after four months without a decision, everyone becomes increasingly impatient, while leaders of various factions advocate for their candidates. Original.

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