A face
31/08/2008, 9:23 PM
The book 'Gomorrah' written by Roberto Saviano (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/books/review/Donadio-t.html)
This is Campania, the region whose capital is Naples and pulsing heart the Camorra, or Neapolitan mafia. Thanks to the Camorra — the book’s title is a dark play on words — Campania has one of the highest murder rates in Europe, one of the world’s highest ratios of drug dealers to inhabitants, soaring levels of unemployment and cocaine addiction, and elevated cancer rates linked to toxic waste dumping. Since 1979, 3,600 people have died at the hands of the Camorra — more than have been killed by the Sicilian Mafia, the Irish Republican Army or the Basque group ETA.
This is Campania, the region whose capital is Naples and pulsing heart the Camorra, or Neapolitan mafia. Thanks to the Camorra — the book’s title is a dark play on words — Campania has one of the highest murder rates in Europe, one of the world’s highest ratios of drug dealers to inhabitants, soaring levels of unemployment and cocaine addiction, and elevated cancer rates linked to toxic waste dumping. Since 1979, 3,600 people have died at the hands of the Camorra — more than have been killed by the Sicilian Mafia, the Irish Republican Army or the Basque group ETA.