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The modern Italian classic about Calabrian organized crime?now an award-winning motion picture?makes its English-language debut.
Soho Crime
March 2019
On Sale: March 5, 2019
288 pages
ISBN: 1616959975
EAN: 9781616959975
Kindle: 9781616959
Hardcover / e-Book
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In the remote Aspromonte Mountains in southern Calabria,
Italy, three best friends embark on a life of crime in
order to raise themselves up out of the poverty of their
childhoods and the suffering of their parents. Brainy
Luciano, the behind-the-scenes schemer, was orphaned as a
little boy when the local mob boss had his postman father
executed. Lazy, jovial Luigi has learned that there’s no
point in following the rules, since there is no path to
riches for poor boys. And completing the triumvirate is
the nameless narrator, from whose black soul comes the
inspiration and energy for each new criminal project,
from kidnapping to armed robbery to heroin dealing to
contract killing.
Set in the birthplace of the ’Ndrangheta, Calabria’s
ruthless and ubiquitous mafia, Black Souls draws on
centuries of brigand lore, peasant rebellion history,
mountain mythology, and colonial suffering to offer a
gripping morality tale about how violence begets
violence.
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