by Mario Puzo · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422604792
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«La Mamma» is the novel by Mario Puzo, published in 1973 by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (301 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Lucía Santa, an Italian immigrant settled on New York's Tenth Avenue. Lucía faces continuous adversities, and the situation worsens when her children take paths that test the family. Even during the Great Depression years, she remains steadfast and fights to get ahead.
The Spanish-language edition includes the translation by Ángel Arnau.
For readers of twentieth-century North American fiction and stories centered on the immigrant experience.
Mario Francis Puzo was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001.
