The Godmother - Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women

Pupetta Maresca committed her first murder when she was just 18 years old and heavily pregnant with her first child. In broad daylight, she pumped 29 bullets into the man known as Big Tony who''d ordered the hit on her husband just months earlier. In the years after her release from prison, Pupetta rose through the ranks of the criminal underworld to become ''Lady Camorra'', the first documented female mob boss. Investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau explores how this woman became the head of a patriarchal criminal syndicate through a life of violence and ruthless political manoeuvring. Enthralling and disturbing in equal measure, it reveals how women have co-opted this seemingly all-male world but can remain victims as well as perpetrators - sometimes in the same moment. There are no simple moral equations. With crucial insight from anti-mafia prosecutor Alessandra Cerreti, we get a 360-degree view of the dark underbelly of Italian society, in all its seedy glamour and systemic failings. Brutal, jaw-dropping and utterly unputdownable, The Godmother takes us deeper into the mafia than ever before.

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Meet 'Lady Camorra', one of the first female mafia bosses, as she sips coffee and drums her black-lacquered fingernails on her kitchen table. The Godmother takes the reader into the little-known role of the women that underpin Italy's most ruthless mob families and are forced to reckon with the social and sexual codes governing the violent reality of mafioso rule Sara Gay Forden, author HOUSE OF GUCCI

Product details

• Authors: Barbie Latza Nadeau, Nadeau Barbie Latza
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.09.2022
• EAN: 9781529113211
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-1321-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, HISTORY / Women, Italy, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Organized crime, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Psychology of gender, TRUE CRIME / Historical