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A review by cindyjac
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
5.0
My fifth book in the "reading the world" challenge. Learning about the depth and brutality of organized crime in Naples and beyond was eye opening and terrifying. The best way to describe the power of this book Is an excerpt from an article the author wrote for The Guardian 2 years ago:
"think about the huge number of people in Italy who live like me, under state-provided armed guard: 585 of us. People whose names nobody knows face threats alone and unprotected, every day of their lives. I think about people who, even though they were known targets, had no protection. The deaths at Charlie Hebdo should make anyone who isn’t trying to change the world feel guilty. It’s easier to say the satirists brought it on themselves than to look in the mirror and confront the image of our own inertia."
Because he was willing to dig into the truth and present it to a world audience he lives in constant threat, with 24/7 protection and isolation. You cannot remain naive to the evil in our society after reading this book.
"think about the huge number of people in Italy who live like me, under state-provided armed guard: 585 of us. People whose names nobody knows face threats alone and unprotected, every day of their lives. I think about people who, even though they were known targets, had no protection. The deaths at Charlie Hebdo should make anyone who isn’t trying to change the world feel guilty. It’s easier to say the satirists brought it on themselves than to look in the mirror and confront the image of our own inertia."
Because he was willing to dig into the truth and present it to a world audience he lives in constant threat, with 24/7 protection and isolation. You cannot remain naive to the evil in our society after reading this book.