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Köp båda 2 för 502 krJohn Dickie combines narrative skills in his description of skulduggery with excellent pen portraits of striking individuals...no one anywhere writes with such authority on Italy's criminal gangs. * Times Literary Supplement * Chilling and eye-opening. -- Bill Emmott * The Times * 'I've been so unsettled by John Dickie's Mafia Republic - his angry and moving new history of the power of the Italian criminal fraternities since the Second World War.' -- Samira Ahmed * Big Issue * REVIEWS FOR MAFIA BROTHERHOODS: * . * His narrative bowls along, powered by the sort of muscular prose one associates with great detective fiction. An exhilarating history. * <i>Financial Times</i> * 'Exciting and well-written... like a 19th-century Sopranos'. * <i>Shortlist</i> * 'Fine social history and hair-raising true crime'. * <i>Independent</i> * By shining a light so powerfully into the darkest recesses of mafia mythology and history, Dickie's new book will certainly provide a concrete tool in the anti-mafia struggle to which many Italians and Calabrians in Australia and Italy are passionately committed. * <i>Australian Literary Review</i> * Magisterial ... absorbing. * </i>Scotsman</i> * BLOOD BROTHERHOODS is almost certainly the most ambitious true-crime assignment ever. The result is a stunning success: a sprawling, powerful historical narrative that is the definitive story of Sicily's Mafia, the Camorra of Naples, and Calabria's 'Ndrangheta. * The <i>Adelaide Advertiser</i> * Yet Dickie thinks there are "more reasons for optimism today than at any point in the past"... it's a point well made. * Financial Times *
John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at University College London. In 2004 he published Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, to ecstatic reviews. It became an international bestseller, with over 20 translations, and won the CWA Dagger Award for non-fiction that year. Since then he has published Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and their Food (2007), which was made into a TV series for HIstory Channel Italia and other networks worldwide. He is also the author of Mafia Brotherhoods (2011) and Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse (2013). In 2005 the President of the Italian Republic appointed him a Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta Italiana.