Roberto Saviano's new book, Vieni via con me, is a collection of short essays about today's Italy. Vieni via con me was shown on the television channel, Rai 3, where Saviano spoke to the audience about problems in Italian politics, society and culture and featured many prominent guests from political and cultural circles as well as individuals affected by these problems. The show aired on Rai 3 for four consecutive Mondays in the month of November 2010 and received an amazing response in terms of viewership and content. For those of you who might have trouble following along all four episodes of this series, now the book is available to read at your leisure.
Each of the essays discuss various topics about modern Italy and addresses important social/political issues in Italy: euthanasia, mudslinging, lack of national unity in Italy, the mafia in Italy, the earthquake in L'Aquila, the trash problem among others. Saviano's journalistic style is a combination of reporting and storytelling that works well in this short collection of essays. His particular strength, as demonstrated in the chapters on the L'Aquila earthquake and the Piero and Mina Welby, is the personal element that he brings to the stories. People he describes leap off the pages as people and are not simply reduced to facts or figures and neither are they simply victims or pawns. There's a level of empathy that is astounding and tangible in how he describes and narrates to us how the lives of these men and women are touched by these serious problems in Italy.
This book is a great companion to the four televised episodes or simply an excellent way to learn more about the problems in Italian society in the 21st century!
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