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Beauty and the Inferno

by Roberto Saviano
RM32.79 MYR
Beauty and the Inferno
Beauty and the Inferno

Insightful essays on art, humanity, and confronting evil.

If you've been moved by stories that face the darkness of our world with courageous truth-telling, "Beauty and the Inferno" is for you. Roberto Saviano, with the same nerve that saw him expose the Italian mafia in "Gomorrah," digs into the collective human struggle against corruption. In these essays, he celebrates societal beacons like Messi and Frank Miller and denounces the shadows cast by organized crime. It's a powerful, provocative read that challenges and inspires.

  • European Book Prize for Non-fiction (2010)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Beauty and the Inferno

by Roberto Saviano
RM32.79 MYR
ISBN: 9780857050106
Authors: Roberto Saviano
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Date of Publication: 2012-06-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Creative Nonfiction, Music, Politics, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Essays, Memoir, Memoir, Journalism, Music, Memoir, Politics
Goodreads rating: 3.67
(rated by 775 readers)

Description

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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Insightful essays on art, humanity, and confronting evil.

If you've been moved by stories that face the darkness of our world with courageous truth-telling, "Beauty and the Inferno" is for you. Roberto Saviano, with the same nerve that saw him expose the Italian mafia in "Gomorrah," digs into the collective human struggle against corruption. In these essays, he celebrates societal beacons like Messi and Frank Miller and denounces the shadows cast by organized crime. It's a powerful, provocative read that challenges and inspires.

  • European Book Prize for Non-fiction (2010)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.