Gomorra: Journey to the Economic Empire and Power Dream of the Camorra (Spanish Edition)

Ten years ago, the publication of Gomorrah shocked the world and changed Roberto Saviano's life forever. A decade later, Debate is relaunching the book, including a new commemorative prologue by the author.

This incredible and fascinating real-life account is a journey into the business and criminal empire of the Camorra, which begins and ends under the sign of merchandise. "Fresh" goods, in the most varied forms (video games, watches, designer clothes) arrive at the port of Naples, and to be stored and hidden, they are taken out of the gigantic containers and invade ancient palaces, previously completely emptied.

The "dead" goods, coming from all over Italy and half of Europe, in the form of chemical waste, toxic residues or sludge, are illegally dumped in the fields, where they poison, among others, the very bosses who erect their lavish and absurd mansions on those lands.

This is the Camorra (or the "System," as hardly anyone uses the word "Camorra") today: on the one hand, a business organization with impressive ramifications throughout the planet and an ever-expanding dark zone where it is difficult to distinguish how much wealth is the direct product of blood and how much of simple financial operations, and on the other, a criminal phenomenon deeply influenced by the media and the society of the spectacle, whose leaders imitate the way of dressing and moving of the stars of cinema and mythical figures, from Tarantino's gangsters to the sinister appearances of The Crow with Brandon Lee.

In this absorbing and meticulously documented book, Roberto Saviano has reconstructed both the terrifying economic-financial and expansionist logic of the Neapolitan and Caserta clans, as well as the feverish fantasies that add the mortuary fatalism of the medieval Japanese samurai.

The result is an extraordinary and powerful book, passionate and brutal, at the same time objective and visionary, investigative and literary, full of horrors and disturbing fascinations; a book narrated always in the first person by this young author, born and raised in the land of the hardest Camorra.

Reviews: "A meticulous reconstruction of the intricacies and functioning of the Neapolitan mafia. Details, dates, names and surnames give the text a chilling realism." - El Periódico

"An old saying claimed that Naples was 'a paradise inhabited by devils.' Roberto Saviano deals with the devils that inhabit that fascinating paradise in Gomorrah." - José Luis García Martín, ABC

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