About the book: 2016 / “Weed” is a unique book of its kind. This is the autobiography of a criminal - Giuseppe Grassonelli, accused of a series of murders and serving a life sentence - co-written with journalist Carmelo Sardo. The book was awarded the prestigious Italian literary Leonardo Sciasci Prize - this caused a scandal, and the chairman of the jury refused to participate in the meeting. A documentary film was made based on the book “Weed”, which caused lively controversy. The fate of Grassonelli, obsessed with blood feud, is truly tragic and terrible. Honestly and artlessly, he talks about his life, in which two aspects - a cruel criminal and a person - are inseparable. The authors of the book seem to be pushing the reader to make a moral verdict: is the hero guilty or deserves mercy, since after twenty years in prison he was able to become a different person??