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Before The Godfather and The Last Don, Mario Puzo wrote The Fortunate Pilgrim, a novel many believe to be one of the classics of Italian-American fiction. In this special edition, Mario Puzo's legions of fans will discover a different side of this legendary author, writing for the first time about an Italian family in which a woman holds the power.

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Ein mitreißender Mafia-Thriller. Der kleine Vito entkommt als einziger einem Massaker in seinem Heimatort auf Sizilien. Er flieht nach New York und wird als Erwachsener zum gefürchteten Paten der amerikanischen Mafia. Aber ihn beherrscht nur ein Gedanke: Er will den Mord an seiner Familie rächen.

A modern masterpiece, The Godfather is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia. Still shocking forty years after it was first published, this compelling tale of blackmail, murder and family values is a true classic.

Die außergewöhnliche Weiterführung des Gangsterepos "Der Pate" erzählt die Geschichte der mächtigen Corleone Familie in zweiter und dritter Generation. Regisseur Francis Ford Copolla verfilmte die Fortsetzung mit Blick auf zwei Geschichten: die Anfänge und den Aufstieg des jungen Don Vito, gespielt von einem unvergleichlich talentierten Robert de Niro, und den Aufstieg von Michael als neuen Don. In dieser Verfilmung versammelt sich unter der F...

Im Fadenkreuz der MafiaSizilien 1950: Die Zeit des Exils auf Sizilien neigt sich für Michael Corleone dem Ende zu. Sein Vater, der mächtige Don, hat ihn beauftragt, den jungen sizilianischen Mafioso Salvatore Giuliano nach Amerika zu begleiten. Für das sizilianische Volk ist Giuliano ein Held, doch mit seinem Kampf gegen die korrupte Regierung in Rom hat er sich einflussreiche Feinde geschaffen. Nicht nur die Polizei ist ihm auf den Fersen, so...

We are a family. And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished—but if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned."The crowning achievement of a truly phenomenal career, Mario Puzo's final novel is a remarkable epic of greed, treachery, sin, and power beyond mortal imagination. It is a journey to a different time and place—when the Church held t...

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 ...

Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him.At sea amid the treacheries of a brutal and unfamiliar land, Michael must find a way through the labyrinthine deceits that surround him, while Giuliano prepares himself for a final confrontation with Don Croce, Capo di Capi of the Sicilian Mafia. A novel of ...

The Godfather is an extraordinary novel which has become a modern day classic. Puzo pulls us inside the violent society of the Mafia and its gang wars.The leader, Vito Corleone, is the Godfather. He is a benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power. His command post is a fortress on Long Island from which he presides over a vast underground empire that includes the rackets, gambling, bookmaking, and unions. His influence runs ...

The Godfather is an extraordinary novel which has become a modern day classic. Puzo pulls us inside the violent society of the Mafia and its gang wars.The leader, Vito Corleone, is the Godfather. He is a benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power. His command post is a fortress on Long Island from which he presides over a vast underground empire that includes the rackets, gambling, bookmaking, and unions. His influence runs ...

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From the barren farms of Italy to the cramped tenements of New York, Lucia Santa - wife, widow and mother of two families - must steer them through the Depression and the early years of war as they adapt to life in a strange land. However, she cannot prevent the conflict between Italian and American values - nor the violence and bloodshed which must surely follow...

Hardened by the brutality and desceration of three long years of war, Walter Mosca returns to America a changed man. But he has no sooner arrived than he knows he must run back to the land of the enemy, to find the woman who accepts the rage and cruelty of the world around her. In Germany, where the bitter aftermath of war is everything apparent, American cigarettes will buy almost anything. Mosca now faces a different kind of war, one in whi...

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Sicilyali, Mario Puzo nun eserleri icinde bir köse tasidir. Bu kitapta, cinayetin, adaletin ve ihanetin romantik ve unutulmaz öyküsünü bulacaksiniz. Michael Corleone nin Sicilya daki sürgünü sona eriyor. Fakat Baba sinin talimatlarina göre Salvatore Guiliano adli genc adami da, -eger bulabilirse- yaninda götürecektir. Bu vahsi ve yabanci topraklarda, ihanetlerin ortasinda Michael, onu saran entrikalar labirentinde yolunu bulmaya calisirken, Gu...

Büyük savasin acimasizlastirdigi ve sertlestirdigi Walter Mosca, Amerika ya döndügünde tamamen degismisti. Ancak vatanina döner dönmez düsmanin topraklarina, etrafindaki dünyanin acimasizligini ve öfkesini oldugu gibi kabul eden kadinin yanma geri dönmesi gerektigini biliyordu. Savasin etkilerinin her yerde görüldügü Almanya da Amerikan sigaralariyla herseyi satin almak mümkündü. Mosca ve Hella arasindaki ask acaba tüm bunlarin üstesinden gele...

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