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Author Saviano, Roberto, 1979- author.

Title The piranhas : the boy bosses of Naples / Roberto Saviano ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  F SAVIANO, R.    Storage
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F SAVIANO, R.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC SAVIANO    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F SAVIANO, ROBERTO    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description xii, 345 pages ; 24 cm
Note "Originally published in Italian by Feltrinelli Editore, Italy, as La paranza dei bambini" -- ECIP galley.
Summary Nicolas 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 paranza, 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 The Piranhas, Roberto Saviano imagines the lurid glamour of Nicolas's story with all the vividness and insight that made Gomorrah a worldwide sensation.-- Publisher's description.
Nicholas, a member of one of Naples' mafia-run child gangs, aspires to be more than just a lacky, but he soon finds his ambition getting him into trouble. By the best-selling author of Gomorrah.
Subject Teenagers -- Italy -- Naples -- Fiction.
Gangs -- Italy -- Naples -- Fiction.
Violence -- Fiction.
Mystery -- Fiction.
Gangs. (OCoLC)fst00937695
Teenagers. (OCoLC)fst01145551
Violence. (OCoLC)fst01167224
Italy -- Naples. (OCoLC)fst01204441
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Crime.
Genre/Form Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels.
Suspense fiction.
Added Author Shugaar, Antony, translator.
Added Title Paranza dei bambini. English
ISBN 9780374230029 (hardcover)
0374230021 (hardcover)
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