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Criaco, Gioacchino, 1965-
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Friendship -- Fiction.
Organized crime -- Italy -- Fiction.
Italy -- Fiction.
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Criaco, Gioacchino, 1965-
Friendship -- Fiction.
Organized crime -- Italy -- Fiction.
Italy -- Fiction.
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Black
souls
/ Gioacchino Criaco ; translated from the Italian by Hillary Gulley.
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Criaco, Gioacchino, 1965-
Soho Crime, 2019.
Call #:
FICTION CRI
Subjects
Friendship -- Fiction.
Organized crime -- Italy -- Fiction.
Italy -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781616959975 (hc.)
Description:
271 p. ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translation of: Anime nere.
Translated from the Italian.
Summary:
"In the remote Aspromonte Mountains in southern Calabria, Italy, three best friends embark on a life of crime in order to raise themselves up out of the poverty of their childhoods and the suffering of their parents. Brainy Luciano, the behind-the-scenes schemer, was orphaned as a little boy when the local mob boss had his postman father executed. Lazy, jovial Luigi has learned that there's no point in following the rules, since there is no path to riches for poor boys. And completing the triumvirate is the nameless narrator, from whose
black
soul comes the inspiration and energy for each new criminal project, from kidnapping to armed robbery to heroin dealing to contract killing. Set in the lush Aspromonte forest in an unnamed town inspired by the author's native Africo, the birthplace of the 'Ndrangheta, Calabria's ruthless and ubiquitous mafia,
Black
Souls
draws on centuries of brigand lore, peasant rebellion history, mountain mythology, and colonial suffering to offer a gripping morality tale about how violence begets violence. The novel tells the cultural history of a disaffected people who have taken destructive paths into organized crime as a means of exploiting a system that has exploited them for hundreds of years"--Publisher.
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Italian fiction -- Translations into English.
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Gulley, Hillary.
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