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“The most concrete emblem of every economic cycle is the dump,” writes Naples native and best-selling Italian muckraker Roberto Saviano somewhere near the conclusion of his extraordinary 2006 “nonfiction novel” Gomorrah, a seethingly cogent and literarily constructed indictment of the Camorra, Italy’s largest organized crime syndicate. Far older and much more widespread than the country’s other Mafia networks, the Cosa Nostra and the ’Ndrangheta, the Naples-based Camorra—or “the system,” as it is often simply referred to—is the machine that drives most of Italy’s (and, increasingly, the world’s) organized crime, and much of the country’s illicit and licit economies. Drugs, high-fashion textiles, weapons, construction, shipping, and waste management “solutions”—all these and more fall under the Camorra’s voracious and remorseless purview, but for Saviano, who has spent years studying and explicating the organization’s relentlessly lethal economic turbine, it is only by pawing through the contaminated landfills and human detritus the system leaves in its wake that one can truly come to grips with the devastation inherent in its design. For the Camorra, Saviano mordantly suggests, the dump is like a garden: a kind of upside-down Eden, profitably sown with poisoned industrial sludge, watered with the sweat and blood of those who work and struggle to survive within it, and fertilized with the bodies of anyone who might foolishly stand in its way.
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