by Mario Puzo · Arrow Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099429289
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«The Godfather» is Mario Puzo's mafia novel, published by Arrow Books Ltd in paperback (608 pages, in English).
Set in 1940s New York, it follows the Corleone family and their place in organized crime. Don Corleone, the clan's patriarch, seeks to maintain a balance between Cosa Nostra business and the loyalty of his own. Intrigue, betrayal and revenge mix in a chronicle of power and family.
The novel is the first installment of the The Godfather series, which brings together three titles centered on the Corleone family.
For readers of crime fiction and classic fiction who enjoy stories of mafia, power and family loyalty.
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.
