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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.

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.

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 suspected how he had carefully trained him...and how, while the don’s children claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his time to come.

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 suspected how he had carefully trained him...and how, while the Don's children claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his time to come.

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.

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.

美国纽约五大黑势力集团之一的维托・考利昂一家采用多种极端手段，实现了在整个美国黑暗势力团体中的独尊地位……美國紐約五大黑勢力集團之一的維托・考利昂一家採用多種極端手段，實現了在整個美國黑暗勢力團體中的獨尊地位…… 

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.

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.

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.

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 movie. Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, Peter Bart, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino all make appearances - as does Frank Sinatra, in his famous and disastrous encounter with Puzo. First published in 1972, the essay is now available as an audiobook for the first time.

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.

"Tåber dør" er fortaellingen om de miljøer, hvor drømme og håb enten baerer en til stjernerne eller brister drastisk. Om gamblingens højborg Las Vegas, om Hollywoods brutale, men raffinerede filmmiljø og om New Yorks litteraere jungle. Det er her tåberne lever og dør. På casinoet på Hotel Xanadu i Las Vegas mødes en gruppe maend, som ikke tidligere kender hinanden. Den forfaldne gambler Cully, den intense og drengede Merlyn og den midaldrende Jordan.

Efterkrigstidens ruinbyer i det besatte Tyskland er hjemsted for en skyggeverden, hvor korruptionen og desperationen lever side om side, og den eneste gyldige valuta er amerikanske cigaretter. For dem kan du til gengæld købe hvad som helst. Amerikaneren Walter Mosca vender tilbage til dette Tyskland efter krigen, for at genfinde den kvinde han elskede, og opbygge et nyt liv.