Renate Siebert studied at the Frankfurt School in the 1960s as a doctoral student of T.W. Adorno. she is currently an associate professor of sociology at the University of Calabria. Liz Heron has translated many Italian and French authors, including Nanni Balestrini, Giorgio Agamben, Anna Maria Ortese and Herve Guibert. The most recent of her own books is a short-story collection A Red River.

Books about the mafia are either intelligent or exciting. This one is both. But the author never lets sensationalism get the upper hand. It is such a considered, thoughtful work, yet the subject it deals with, principally the enslavement and victimization of women, and, not least, their corruption, is so shocking as to stun. The result is a considerable achievement.

Renate Siebert studied at the Frankfurt School in the 1960s as a doctoral student of T.W. Adorno. she is currently an associate professor of sociology at the University of Calabria. Liz Heron has translated many Italian and French authors, including Nanni Balestrini, Giorgio Agamben, Anna Maria Ortese and Herve Guibert. The most recent of her own books is a short-story collection A Red River.

Books about the mafia are either intelligent or exciting. This one is both. But the author never lets sensationalism get the upper hand. It is such a considered, thoughtful work, yet the subject it deals with, principally the enslavement and victimization of women, and, not least, their corruption, is so shocking as to stun. The result is a considerable achievement.

Renate Siebert studied at the Frankfurt School in the 1960s as a doctoral student of T.W. Adorno. she is currently an associate professor of sociology at the University of Calabria. Liz Heron has translated many Italian and French authors, including Nanni Balestrini, Giorgio Agamben, Anna Maria Ortese and Herve Guibert. The most recent of her own books is a short-story collection A Red River.

Books about the mafia are either intelligent or exciting. This one is both. But the author never lets sensationalism get the upper hand. It is such a considered, thoughtful work, yet the subject it deals with, principally the enslavement and victimization of women, and, not least, their corruption, is so shocking as to stun. The result is a considerable achievement.