Roberto Saviano 2006 book "Gomorra" has great success in a very short time. In it he tells the story of organized crime to spread that through the Italian sense, however vaguely recall recurring nightmares. The book describes the activities of the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia, as the oldest criminal organization in Italy, as it has developed in the twenty-first century. Here, cocaine, sweatshops, loan-sharking, illegal immigrants and toxicare all coming together to create a modern horror of biblical magnitude.

The book has sold over a million copies in Italy and has been published in numerous translations, which shows not only the Italian readers morbid interest in the subject, but also the alarming parallels with so many other societies suffering the ills of modern life. It is available in bookstores in about 50 different countries, despite the fact that it is not easily classified. It is aWork of reportage, but done in a narrative style, a sort of non-fiction novel. Saviano calls the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and Truman Capote, like his predecessors in the genre and his work to occupy a space somewhere between the two seems to be on the investigation of the corruption of the economy on the one hand, and the sick thrill of bloody crime the others.

The Camorra (the Neapolitan with an accent when spoken sounds like the infamous biblical city) together with his CalabrianCounterpart 'Ndrangheta are not nearly as good as the Sicilian Cosa Nostra known, and for this reason they have slipped very successful in the industrial economy of the country. Saviano said in an interview with Fabio Fazio for Italian television that the Camorra not name their organization by its name, but talk of "system". Members of the 'Ndrangheta similarly speak of "Cosa Nuova. For them, demanding their own organizations, which is a bit of their nameridiculously quaint, like calling murder, extortion, usury, or as pedestrians name. These people see themselves as mythological figures life out of the cinematic visions of a hundred movies. With this book, this courageous journalist who (the victim of numerous death threats) sought to tear the covers of this secret arts, as one would pull the bandages from a festering wound. He calls evil by its name, and then the Italian company dares to do somethingit.

"Gomorrah" is not only a fascinating book, so lifelike that it is the most widely read book in Italian prisons, it is also a powerful film directed by Matteo Garrone, and winner of the Grand Prix des Festivals in Cannes 2008th The script takes five of the stories from the book by Roberto Saviano and she interweaves dramatic. Garrone uses a mix of professional and non-professional actors who move through a labyrinth of grimy decaying housing projectsand polluted country as they go to sleep / run through this nightmare. There are quarrels and beatings and deep-rooted fears, and there is cocaine, to bear it, it could be done with their money and a high level. And it is murder, lots of it. But what is most tragically illustrated what is the hope that so inflamed many of the individuals within itself, in any way possible, hoping that will inevitably be wiped out. The film is a burning, burning tool with a sharp edge that the images in theSpectators brain, as Saviano his words cut to the head of the reader. Here we see the downside of modern Europe, the Naples apocalyptic cries of self-inflicted pain. It is the viewer to decide whether this is really someone else's problem, or a social disease that infects all of our cities, no matter how far we live from Vesuvius.

The book was published as "Gomorrah" in the U.S. in 2007, translated by Virginia Jewiss. The film with the same namewas shown at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival and will be distributed in North America by IFC. It is to be published in late 2008 or early 2009.

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