{"product_id":"piranhas-paperback","title":"Piranhas - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoberto Saviano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGomorrah\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year, Roberto Saviano revealed a true, devastating portrait of Naples, Italy under the rule of the Camorra, a crime organization more powerful and violent than the Mafia. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Piranhas\u003c\/i\u003e, now a major motion picture, the international bestselling author returns to his home city with a novel of gang warfare and a young man's dark desire to rise to the top of Naples's underworld. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNicolas Fiorillo is a brilliant and ambitious fifteen-year-old from the slums of Naples, eager to make his mark and to acquire power and the money that comes with it. With nine friends, he sets out to create a new \u003ci\u003eparanza\u003c\/i\u003e, or gang. Together they roam the streets on their motorscooters, learning how to break into the network of small-time hoodlums that controls drug-dealing and petty crime in the city. They learn to cheat and to steal, to shoot semiautomatic pistols and AK-47s. Slowly they begin to wrest control of the neighborhoods from enemy gangs while making alliances with failing old bosses. Nicolas's strategic brilliance is prodigious, and his cohorts' rapid rise and envelopment in the ensuing maelstrom of violence and death is riveting and impossible to turn away from. In \u003ci\u003eThe Piranhas\u003c\/i\u003e, Roberto Saviano imagines the lurid glamour of Nicolas's story with all the vividness and insight that made \u003ci\u003eGomorrah \u003c\/i\u003ea worldwide sensation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With the openhearted rashness that belongs to every true writer, Saviano returns to tell the story of the fierce and grieving heart of Naples.\" --Elena Ferrante\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberto Saviano \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1979 and studied philosophy at the University of Naples. \u003ci\u003eGomorrah\u003c\/i\u003e, his first book, has won many awards, including the prestigious 2006 Viareggio Literary Award, and was adapted into a play, a film, and a television series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntony Shugaar\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and translator. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCoast to Coast\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Lie for a Living\u003c\/i\u003e and the coauthor, with Gianni Guadalupi, of \u003ci\u003eDiscovering America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLatitude Zero\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42103324049543,"sku":"9781250774088","price":20.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/8146894db111a08fc79f09baaa3aa1ec.webp?v=1732412464","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/piranhas-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}