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Verso Books Beauty and the Inferno: Essays
Book SynopsisGomorrah, Roberto Saviano's 2006 exposé of Naples's Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was ostracized by his countrymen and went on the run, changing his location every few months and compelled to keep perpetual company with his bodyguards. To this day, he lives in an undisclosed location.The loneliness of the fugitive life informs all the essays in Beauty and the Inferno, Saviano's first book since Gomorrah. Among other subjects, he writes about the legendary South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba, his meeting with the real-life Donnie Brasco, sharing the Nobel Academy platform with Salman Rushdie, and the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Present throughout the book is a sense of Saviano's peculiar isolation, which infuses his words with anger, exceptional insight and tragedy.Trade ReviewIt is good to be reminded of the raw bravery of the Savianos of this world and to salute them for sacrifices they have made in their challenges to power. -- Duncan Campbell * Guardian *I feel humble, almost insignificant, faced with the dignity and the courage of the writer and journalist Roberto Saviano, the man who has mastered the art of living. -- José SaramagoWe must thank Roberto Saviano for having returned to literature the ability to open eyes and minds. -- Mario Vargas LlosaIts tone is angry and urgent ... the essays in Beauty and the Inferno are in some sense a celebration of bravery and an expression of rage against corruption and cowardice. -- Caroline Moorehead * Times Literary Supplement *A perceptive and sympathetic critic and reader ... Saviano writes very well ... what he has to say demands to be read. Like Primo Levi, his testimony pricks our conscience, tests our resolve, makes us examine ourselves ... At once deeply disturbing and illuminating. -- Alan Taylor * Scottish Sunday Herald *He never pulls his punches, his message is incredibly important, and the facts he includes-such as the increase in cancer rates due to the illegal dumping of toxic waste-are like bombshells. -- Tobias Jones * Sunday Times *In his essay about [Anna] Politkovskaya, he writes: 'I do not care about beautiful stories that cannot be bothered with the blood of our times. I want to smell the rot of politics and the stench of business.' He achieves that and more in his own work. -- Patrick Freyne * Sunday Business Post *A beautiful object, from the surface through to its depths....Saviano's confidence and sheer bulldozing coherence could serve as inspiration to all writers, both of fiction and journalism, as the path around weak speechifying and dutiful responses. Read Saviano and feel hope. -- David Hammerschlag * Bookslut *Always passionate...Saviano's commitment to his subjects draws the reader in...This is a strong collection from a brave and keen-eyed reporter. * Publishers Weekly *
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Monash University Publishing Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s Toughest
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Allen & Unwin Drawn Out: A seriously funny memoir
Book SynopsisDrawn Out is a hilarious, heartbreaking, heart-warming account of Tom Scott's tragicomic childhood, his manic student-newspaper days, his turbulent years stumbling through the corridors of power, his fallings out with prime ministers, his collaborations with comic legends John Clarke, A.K. Grant and Murray Ball, his travels to the ends of the earth with his close friend Ed Hillary, and more...'A first-class memoir of a highly memorable life. Here is an important (often hilarious) writer and immensely gifted cartoonist, insightfully chronicling quite momentous changes in our political and social landscape.'Jim Mora, New Zealand BooksTrade Review'A first-class memoir of a highly memorable life. Here is an important (often hilarious) writer and immensely gifted cartoonist, insightfully chronicling quite momentous changes in our political and social landscape.'Jim Mora, New Zealand Books
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