The piranhas : the boy bosses of Naples
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374230029 (hardcover) :
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Physical Description:
print
regular print
xii, 345 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in Italian by Feltrinelli Editore, Italy, as La paranza dei bambini" -- ECIP galley. |
Original Version Note: | Translation of: Paranza dei bambini. |
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Subject: | Teenagers -- Italy -- Naples -- Fiction Gangs -- Italy -- Naples -- Fiction Violence -- Fiction |
Available copies
- 7 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Castlegar Public Library | FIC SAV (Text) | 35146002103968 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Nicholas, a member of one of Naples' mafia-run child gangs, aspires to be more than just a lacky, but he soon finds his ambition getting him into trouble. By the best-selling author of Gomorrah. - Baker & Taylor
Fifteen-year-old Nicholas, a member of one of Naples' mafia-run child gangs, aspires to be more than just a lackey, but he soon finds his ambition getting him into trouble. - Baker & Taylor
"Novel centering on the roving gangs of young boys in Naples"-- - McMillan Palgrave
In Gomorrah, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, Roberto Saviano revealed a true, devastating portrait of Naples, Italy under the rule of the Camorra, a crime organization more powerful and violent than the Mafia.
In The Piranhas, now a major motion picture, the international bestselling author returns to his home city with a novel of gang warfare and a young manâs dark desire to rise to the top of Naplesâs underworld.
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 semiautomatic pistols and AK-47s. Slowly they begin to wrest control of the neighborhoods from enemy gangs while making alliances with failing old bosses. Nicolasâs strategic brilliance is prodigious, and his cohortsâ 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 Nicolasâs story with all the vividness and insight that made Gomorrah a worldwide sensation.
âWith the openhearted rashness that belongs to every true writer, Saviano returns to tell the story of the fierce and grieving heart of Naples.â âElena Ferrante