- Title:
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The Piranhas
- Written by:
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Roberto Saviano
- Read by:
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Edoardo Ballerini
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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10
- Duration:
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11 hours 35 minutes
- Published:
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January 28 2019
- Available Date:
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January 28 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529012149
- Genres:
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Fiction; Literary Fiction; Mystery
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Price
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The first novel, already an international bestseller, by the author of Gomorrah, set in the organised crime world of the children’s gangs of Naples
In Naples, a new kind of gang rules the streets: the ‘Paranze’, the ‘Children’s Gangs’, groups of teenage boys who divide their time between Facebook or playing Call of Duty on their PlayStations and patrolling the streets armed with pistols and AK-47s, terrorising local residents in order to mark out the territories of their Mafia bosses.
Roberto Saviano's eye-opening novel The Piranhas tells the story of the rise of one such gang and its leader, Nicolas – known to his friends and enemies as the ‘Maharajah’. But Nicolas’s ambitions reach far beyond doing other men’s bidding: he wants to be the one giving orders, calling the shots, and ruling the city. But the violence he is accustomed to wielding and witnessing soon spirals out of his control ...
'A devastating account ... Saviano's descriptions of the lawless violent world of Naples are both gritty and sentimental, a poetry of cruelty.'
The Daily Telegraph
'With the open-hearted rashness that belongs to every true writer, Saviano returns to tell the story of the fierce and grieving heart of Naples.'
Elena Ferrante