ARGONAUT BOOKS

Youngster Zeno, just 15, grew up long ago in the crime-riddled Forcella neighbourhood, where he started his career as a petty thief to supplement his mother's income and, every now and then, take his girlfriend Natalina out for pizza. A quick hand at pickpocketing and selling drugs, Zeno's confronted by another boy from a rival gang who's been tasked with taking out the competition. He shoots three times, the boy drops dead, and Zeno is sent to Nisida, an infamous juvenile prison-island off the Neapolitan coast. There, Zeno meets Ms Martina, a teacher of Italian at the prison school, who tells...Read More