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Bezig met laden... Maffia over peetvaders, priesters en pizzeria'sdoor Petra Reski
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is the lowest rating I have given to a book. I try not to give a lower than 3 rating because it means that I have wasted time reading it. The subject is very promising but Reski wasted it with the way the book is structured. Reski recalls interviews and encounters with mafia figures in the course of a day; this results in a very disjointed book, and superficial treatment of the topic. The title is supremely misleading too, I had expected an adventure into the heart of the mafia but it is not so. I feel cheated. ( ) Was this book censored? This edition shows about 40 lines in black with information about Italian mafias connections that the german court considered were not proved. It seems that they're proved in Italy ? Maybe this is why Petra Resky, the author, decides to keep this lines in black. The book is centered in two main topics : it shows the intimate connection between Italian mafias and politicians in Italy and the main economic businesses they're involved in. At the same it shows how mafias are not just a criminal organization but a social community, working almost as a secret society. The center of their action is "silence", because they intimidate without proves, testimonies, and sometimes even the victim doesn't know he's a victim. The author says " If there are not dead it seems there is no Mafia" It seems it's very difficult to destroy this organization because they are inserted between the people and their intimidation method is pratically impossible to avoid by law. An intelligent and sensitive view of this organization. Opposite to the usual books about mafia this one is not centered in violence but in this strange "silent violence" and in moral and intimate life inside this society. A journalist writes a very personal account of investigating the mafia in southern Italy. The writing is informal, impressionistic, almost lyrical at times. The book is not interested in documenting evidence of criminal activities—it wants to take you on a tour of the region to show how criminal organisations are the background of the lives of the people who live there. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In the early hours of an August 2007 morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both the victims and the assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime organization. Calabria's Mafia had brazenly shown its savage influence outside Italy for the first time. In The Honored Society award-winning investigative reporter Petra Reski reveals the Mafia menace lurking throughout the world-- from espresso bars in Palermo to European halls of parliament to the corporate headquarters of enormous agricultural firms. In haunting and exquisite prose she explores the Byzantine structure of the 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and other mafia clans throughout Italy -- the code they live by, the destruction they wreak, how they operate within the country and how they operate internationally. She shows how these syndicates dominate everything from nuclear waste disposal to hotel chains to the marijuana trade in Australia and cocaine trafficked throughout the world. Reski shows how figures such as Silvio Berlusconi were made by the Mafia, and how those who dared to defy its codes were broken. A searing portrait of the criminals who have come to control not only Italy but vast swathes of the globe, The Honored Society is a journalistic tour de force. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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