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The Resource The piranhas : the boy bosses of Naples, Roberto Saviano ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar

The piranhas : the boy bosses of Naples, Roberto Saviano ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar

Label
The piranhas : the boy bosses of Naples
Title
The piranhas
Title remainder
the boy bosses of Naples
Statement of responsibility
Roberto Saviano ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar
Title variation
Boy bosses of Naples
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • ita
  • eng
Summary
Nicolas Fiorillo is a brilliant and ambitious fifteen-year-old from the slums of Naples, eager to make his mark and to acquire power and the money that comes with it. With nine friends, he sets out to create a new paranza, or gang. Together they roam the streets on their motorscooters, learning how to break into the network of small-time hoodlums that controls drug-dealing and petty crime in the city. They learn to cheat and to steal, to shoot semi-automatic pistols and AK-47s. Slowly they begin to wrest control of the neighborhoods from enemy gangs while making alliances with failing old bosses. Nicolas's strategic brilliance is prodigious, and his cohorts' rapid rise and envelopment in the ensuing maelstrom of violence and death is riveting and impossible to turn away from. In The Piranhas, Roberto Saviano imagines the lurid glamour of Nicolas's story with all the vividness and insight that made Gomorrah a worldwide sensation
Cataloging source
DLC
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1979-
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Saviano, Roberto
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
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Shugaar, Antony
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  • Teenagers
  • Gangs
  • Violence
Target audience
adult
Label
The piranhas : the boy bosses of Naples, Roberto Saviano ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Originally published in Italian by Feltrinelli Editore, Italy, as La paranza dei bambini
Control code
on1022980649
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xii, 345 pages
Isbn
9780374230029
Lccn
2017059821
Label
The piranhas : the boy bosses of Naples, Roberto Saviano ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar
Publication
Note
Originally published in Italian by Feltrinelli Editore, Italy, as La paranza dei bambini
Control code
on1022980649
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xii, 345 pages
Isbn
9780374230029
Lccn
2017059821

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