Roberto Saviano: I’m still alive

Alkuteos: Sono ancora vivo (2021)

Kääntäjä: Jamie Richards

Kuvittaja: Asaf Hanuka

Teksti: Roberto Saviano

Ilmestymisaika: 2022 (ko.painos)

Kustantaja: Archaia

Sivumäärä: 139

ISBN: 9781684154425

Muoto: Sid.

Peukku: q^^

*When Italian journalist Roberto Saviano was twenty-six years old, he published his first book, Gomorrah, to international acclaim. The book was a detailed report on the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, whose organized crime tactics have permeated all matters of industry throughout Italy.

One day, during an event in his hometown, Saviano asked the mafia bosses who lived there to leave the area and renounce their ways.

They felt insulted, challenged, and focused their underhanded schemes on a new target for extermination: Saviano himself.

Fifteen years later, Saviano’s life is still under threat from the same mobsters who have forced him to leave his native land and to live under constant police protection, estranged from his family, his home, and the life he thought he would get to live.

In this devastating and resilient graphic memoir, Saviano shares his experiences of witnessing the power and violence of the Camorra firsthand and the nightmarish anxieties of living under armed guard, all the while courageously continuing to call attention to the deeply rooted crime and corruption that plagues not only his hometown, but also many Italian and foreign cities where criminal organizations have stretched their tentacles.

Joined by award-winning cartoonist Asaf Hanuka (The Realist, The Divine), I’m Still Alive tells the tragic and true story of one man’s fight against oppression through the age-old power the written word.*

Vaikuttava muistelmateos mafiaa pakenevan kirjailijan elämästä. Teoksessa kerrotaan sarjakuvan keinoin miehen elämästä, hänen ajatuksistaan ja siitä, miten kaikki on vaikuttanut häneen ja hänen perheeseensä. Se on puheenvuoro, jossa kerrotaan varsin erilaisesta elämästä ja sellaiseen sopeutumisesta. Mukana on niin hyviä kuin huonojakin hetkiä, sekä ihmistä muovanneita muistoja.

Kuvitus toimii. Lapsuuden onnellisemmissa muistoissa on seepian sävyjä, haastattelut on kuvattu "normaaleilla" väreillä ja pakomatkaa on kuvitettu harmailla sävyillä jotain tehovärejä käyttäen. Vaikuttavaa jälkeä.