Suburra

Author:   Carlo de Bonini ,  Antony Shugaar
Publisher:   Europa Editions
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9781609454074


Pages:   528
Publication Date:   07 September 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Suburra will be released as a Netflix original series in 2017. During the final days of Silvio Berlusconi’s reign, a massive development proposal that will turn Ostia into a gambling paradise, a Las Vegas on the Mediterranean, is winding its way through the Italian legislature thanks to the sponsorship of politicians in the pay of crime syndicates with vested interests. In short, it’s business as usual in the Italian capital. But a vicious gang of local thugs loyal to nobody but themselves is insisting on a bigger cut than agreed upon. They argue their case quite convincingly, but the Mafia and their political puppets aren’t likely to back down without a fight. De Cataldo and Bonini have created a compelling, provocative portrait of contemporary Rome—a city prey to pitiless criminal factions and political opportunism. A fast-paced and atmospheric work of crime fiction, Suburra rivals the best novels by writers such as Denis Lehane, Richard Price, and George Pelecanos, and successful series like The Wire and The Night Of.

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Author:   Carlo de Bonini ,  Antony Shugaar
Publisher:   Europa Editions
Imprint:   Europa Editions
Weight:   0.368kg
ISBN:  

9781609454074


ISBN 10:   1609454073
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   07 September 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Praise for Suburra An enthralling noir novel that draws inspiration from the real-life scandals that have plagued Italy in recent years. Paris Match Suburra performs an autopsy on Rome, that shrewd and corrupt city. As a novel it is fully equal to the task of capturing its complex subject. Le Monde In Suburra, the incidents revealed by the Mafia Capitale investigation were already in large part recounted in the vivid and hard tones (here and there with a bit of 'splatter, ' a la Quentin Tarantino) of 'fiction, ' but with the realistic breadth that captures a great city tragically 'delivered' to political, economic and criminal corruption. La Repubblica Bonini and De Cataldo find the courage to recount the unadulterated truth, however disturbing it might be, of a city that seems to have forgotten it is part of the civilized world. Paolo Sorrentino, Oscar Award-winning director of The Great Beauty


Praise for <b><i>Suburra</i></b> An enthralling noir novel that draws inspiration from the real-life scandals that have plagued Italy in recent years. <i>Paris Match</i> <i>Suburra </i>performs an autopsy on Rome, that shrewd and corrupt city. As a novel it is fully equal to the task of capturing its complex subject. <i>Le Monde</i> In <i>Suburra</i>, the incidents revealed by the Mafia Capitale investigation were already in large part recounted in the vivid and hard tones (here and there with a bit of 'splatter, ' a la Quentin Tarantino) of 'fiction, ' but with the realistic breadth that captures a great city tragically 'delivered' to political, economic and criminal corruption. <i>La Repubblica</i> Bonini and De Cataldo find the courage to recount the unadulterated truth, however disturbing it might be, of a city that seems to have forgotten it is part of the civilized world. Paolo Sorrentino, Oscar Award-winning director of <i>The Great Beauty</i>


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Jean-Claude Izzo was born in Marseilles in 1945. Best known for the Marseilles trilogy (Total Chaos, Chourmo, Solea), Izzo is also the author of The Lost Sailors, and A Sun for the Dying. Izzo is widely credited with being the founder of the modern Mediterranean noir movement. He died in 2000 at the age of fity-five.

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