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With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness. This unforgettable saga of crime and corruption, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test of time, as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld. A #1 New York Times bestseller in 1969, Mario Puzo's epic was turned into the incomparable film of the same name, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is the original classic that has been often imitated, but never matched.

Si l'on veut comprendre comment est née et s'est développée la Mafia aux États-Unis, avec la corruption des flics et des hommes politiques, l'infiltration du show-business et la spirale meurtrière des familles en guerre, il faut lire Le Parrain, ce classique qui a profondément marqué la littérature criminelle. Il faut se plonger dans ce roman, fourmillant de personnages, d'intrigues et d'épisodes, comme dans un feuilleton énorme, il faut se laisser emporter par les inoubliables figures du clan Corleone, confrontées à l'irrésistible ascension d'un nouveau chef de famille.

Set within America's golden triangle of corruption and excess—New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas—the novel plunges into the glittering and ruthless worlds of gambling, publishing, and the film industry, where greed, lust, and violence hold sway. As high rollers, hustlers, and scheming manipulators use power, sex, and betrayal to win, the strongest survive—but fools die.

Michael Corleone is returning to the U.S. after the two-year exile to Sicily in which listeners left him in The Godfather. But he is ordered to bring with him the young Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Guiliano, who is the unofficial ruler of northwestern Sicily. In his fight "to make Sicilians free people", the young folk hero, based on the real-life Giuliano of the 1940s, has made both the police and the Mafia his enemies.

“A splendid piece of crime fiction . . . a fitting cap to a tremendous career . . . Through it all, Puzo keeps the heat on and keeps the reader enthralled with his characters and his story.”—The Denver Post To Don Raymonde Aprile’s children, he was a loyal family member, their father’s...

The last don is Domenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless man who is determined to see his heirs established in legitimate society but whose vision is threatened when secrets from the family's past spark a vicious war between two blood cousins. This is a mesmerizing tale that takes us inside the equally corrupt worlds of the mob, the movie industry and the casinos - where beautiful actresses and ruthless hit men are ruled by lust and violence.

Il faut se plonger dans ce roman, fourmillant de personnages, d'intrigues et d'épisodes, comme dans un feuilleton énorme, il faut se laisser emporter par les inoubliables figures du clan Corleone, confrontées à l'irrésistible ascension d'un nouveau chef de famille. Aux yeux de ses voisins, Don Corleone est un patriarche, un respectable père de famille qui a su donner à ses enfants une éducation où les rigoureux principes de la morale sicilienne s'adaptent aux nécessités de la vie américaine.

Mario Puzo first answered the question 'What is a family?' with the creation of the Corleones in his landmark best seller The Godfather. Now, 30 years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history, the Borgias.

Lucia Santa has traveled 3,000 miles of dark ocean, from the mountain farms of Italy to the streets of New York, hoping for a better life. Instead, she finds herself in Hell's Kitchen, in a bad marriage, raising six children on her own. As Lucia struggles to hold her family together, her daughter confronts the adult world of work and romance while her eldest son is drawn into the Mafia. Meanwhile, her youngest son aspires to American pursuits she cannot understand.

El Padrino narra la historia de un hombre, Vito Corleone, el capo más respetado de Nueva York. Déspota benevolente, implacable con sus rivales, inteligente y fiel a los principios del honor y la amistad. Don Corleone dirige un emporio que abarca el fraude y la extorsión, los juegos de azar y el control delos sindicatos.

To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one...

Corre el año 1950. El exilio de Michael Corleone en Palermo está a punto de acabar, y su padre, Don Vito, le ha encomendado una misión: debe volver a América con un hombre que se ha convertido en un mito popular, un forajido acosado por el Gobierno, las clases altas y la Mafia. Su nombre es Salvatore Giuliano, un moderno Robin Hood que, tras enfrentarse en su juventud a una patrulla de carabineri, se vio forzado a refugiarse en las montañas.

Tras toda una vida consagrada al mundo del crimen, Don Raymonde Aprile decide ceder el testigo al joven Astorre, su mano derecha. De esta manera, pretende preservar la intachable trayectoria de sus hijos, que han vivido al margen de la Mafia, y dedicarse a supervisar los bancos internacionales que posee.

In this entertaining and insightful essay, Mario Puzo chronicles his rise from struggling writer to overnight success after the publication of The Godfather. With equal parts cynicism and humor, Puzo recounts the book deal and his experiences in Hollywood while writing the screenplay for the...

Two-time Academy Award® winner Mario Puzo is known around the world for his brilliant book The Godfather, widely considered the finest novel ever written about the Mafia. Two years before Puzo published that iconic work, he released Six Graves to Munich under the pseudonym Mario Cleri. During World War II, intelligence officer Michael Rogan lost everything —including his family—to brutal Nazi interrogators. Now 10 years have passed, and Michael is returning to Europe to exact his revenge.

Godfather er historien om Don Vito Corleone, overhoved i en af New Yorks farligste mafiafamilier. Vito Andolini ankommer til Amerika fra byen Corleone i Italien og forsørger sin familie på den eneste mulige måde: Fra sit fort på Long Island leder han et imperium af pengeafpresning, hasardspil og bookmaking. Han bestikker politi, bureaukrater og politikere, og han gør det uden nogen sinde at røre en pistol, en kniv eller udstede en trussel. Hans sønner skiftevis beundrer og efterligner ham, afviser og modsætter sig ham.

Un año después de cometer el acto más salvaje de su vida, Domenico Clericuzio, capo de la última gran familia de la Mafia, toma una determinación: la generación de sus nietos vivirá ajena al mundo del crimen. Desde su espectacular mansión en Long Island, el Don controla negocios de Las Vegas y de Hollywood que le permitirían legitimar su fortuna.

Mario Puzo first answered the question 'What is a family?' with the creation of the Corleones in his landmark best seller The Godfather. Now, 30 years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history, the Borgias.

New York, 1933. Die Aufhebung der Prohibition steht bevor und zwischen den Gangsterbossen der Stadt entflammt ein brutaler Verteilungskampf. Vito Corleone ist bereits stark, doch noch längst nicht der mächtige, alles beherrschende Pate. Mit allen Mitteln verteidigt er sich gegen die brutalen Angriffe seiner Konkurrenten. Während er versucht, seine Familie zu schützen, kommt sein ungestümer ältester Sohn hinter die wahren Machenschaften seines Vaters und drängt darauf, ins Familiengeschäft einzusteigen.

"Vis mig en spiller, så vil jeg vise jer en taber, og vis mig en helt, så vil jeg vise jer et lig". "Tåber dør" fortællingen om de miljøer hvor drømme og håb enten bærer en til stjernerne eller brister drastisk. Om gamblingens højborg Las Vegas, om Hollywoods brutale, men raffinerede filmmiljø og om New Yorks litterære jungle. Det er her tåberne lever og dør. På casinoet på Hotel Xanadu i Las Vegas mødes en gruppe mænd, som ikke tidligere kender hinanden.