A review by katenetz
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano

4.0

This took me a long time to read because Saviano doesn't like to use paragraphs and the thousands of Italian names were incredibly difficult to distinguish from one another. But the overall effect of the book was completely devastating. The scope, breadth, and depth of organized crime in the world is truly unbelievable. The mob runs the southern Italian dairy industry, for heaven's sake. Toxic masculinity, systematic poverty, corrupt political systems, and a strangely perverted morality. Eye-opening, paradigm-crushing, depressing, and yet so so compelling.