New Releases by Mario Puzo

In this entertaining and insightful essay, Mario Puzo chronicles his rise from struggling writer to overnight success as author of The Godfather . Featuring a foreword by Ed Falco, author of The Family Corleone With equal parts cynicism and humor, Puzo recounts the book deal and his experiences in Hollywood while writing the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning 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 ebook. A must-have for every Godfather fan!

El siciliano es una biografía novelada de Giuliano y una incisiva descripción de la vida, las tradiciones y las complejas relaciones de poder en Sicilia. 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. Desde allí lucha por su patria y su gente, oprimida por la Cosa Nostra y la corrupción del Go-bierno de Roma. Ahora, en esta neblinosa tierra de montañas y ruinas antiguas, el destino de Michael Corleone se verá hermanado con la leyenda de Salvatore Giuliano. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Michael Corleone is returning to the U.S. after the two-year exile to Sicily in which reader 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 1940''s, has made both the police and the Mafia his enemies. So when Don Croce Malo, chief of the Sicilian Mafia, and the policemen who has been tracking Guiliano each offer to help Corleone find the elusive Robin Hood, betrayal seems inevitable. Mario Puzo has created a sequel to The Godfather that is every bit as compelling and dramatic. But The Sicilian is a distinct literary achievement in its historical inspiration and its vivid portrait of Sicilian peasant life.

Francis Xavier Kennedy er den fjerde Kennedy, der når til tops i USA’s politiske system – og han er fast besluttet på at blive der. Men han er oppe imod stærke kræfter. En hemmelig gruppe finansmænd vil for enhver pris afskære ham fra endnu en periode i Det hvide Hus, og i Mellemøsten er hans datter gidsel i en flykapring, der ledes af den psykopatiske Yabril. Præsidentens modtræk er justitsminister Christian Klee, en mand der ikke tøver med at bevæge sig på den forkerte side af loven ... ”Det er spændende, og skruen strammes kapitel for kapitel, så man til sidst fristes til at bladre om til slutningen med det samme.” – Henrik List, Berlingske Tidende ”En politisk thriller, en snerrende tidsdebatroman, en dødspændende aktuel historie. Lynende fortalt med elektriske udladninger i sætningerne. Puzo kan sit melodramatiske håndværk.” – Harald Mogensen, Politiken ”Det er en ordentlig mundfuld om magtens korruption og samme magts skånselsløse arrogance. Mario ’Godfather’ Puzo svigter denne gang sine mafiadrenge og kaster sig over den rå magt, som politikere og embedsmænd betjener sig af ... Puzo skriver indtrængende og der venter læseren mange overraskelser undervejs ... Man bliver ikke snydt.” – Holger Ruppert, B.T. Mario Puzo (1920-1999) var en amerikansk romanforfatter, hvis bøger ofte skildrer Amerikas kriminelle underverden og bagsiden af den amerikanske drøm. Blandt hans værker er den udødelige klassiker ”The Godfather” fra 1961 (da. 1971), som blev filmatiseret under samme navn med Francis Ford Coppola som instruktør og Mario Puzo selv som manuskriptforfatter.

The Godfather merupakan sebuah novel kriminal karya penulis Amerika bernama Mario Puzo. Novel ini awal diterbitkan pada tahun 1969 oleh G. P. Putnam''s Sons, novel ini menceritakan secara rinci kisah keluarga Mafia yang bertempat di New York City dan Long Beach, New York, dikepalai sosok Vito Corleone. Dedikasi Puzo untuk karyanya The Godfather seperti "For Anthony Cleri". Novel ini mencakup tahun 1945 hingga 1955 dan menceritakan latar belakang Vito Corleone dari anak usia dini hingga dewasa. Novel The Godfather berisi kisah tentang perjalanan keluarga Corleone yang penuh intrik kehidupan mafia di kota New York. Dalam uraiannya, Mario Puzo secara detail mengisahkan tentang sepak terjang para Mafia Italia di Amerika Serikat. Don Vito Corleone, pemimpin keluarga, menekankan kerjasama saling menguntungkan dengan orang lain berdasarkan kepercayaan dan persahabatan. Sang Don memiliki tiga orang putra: Sonny yang keras kepala, Freddy yang dianggap inkompeten, dan Michael yang sama sekali tidak tertarik pada bisnis keluarga meskipun menjadi putra yang paling diharapkan oleh ayahnya. Suatu hari, Virgil Sollozzo berusaha menawarkan kerjasama dalam bisnis narkoba. Penolakan sang Don menjadi akar dari peperangan keluarga Corleone melawan empat keluarga mafia besar di New York. Saat Vito Corleone sedang terluka, dua putranya, Sonny dan Michael, harus menguji kemampuan mereka dalam menjalankan bisnis keluarga, di mana mereka harus menahan keinginan untuk balas dendam. Michael terpaksa harus menanggung beban paling berat dalam perjalanan tersebut, hingga akhirnya dapat mengembalikan kejayaan keluarganya. Sinopsis Buku Sang Godfather adalah pemimpin Mafia bernama Don Vito Corleone, pria murah hati yang tak kenal ampun dalam meraih dan mempertahankan kekuasaan. Sang Godfather adalah pria yang “logis” dan adil. Ia memimpin kerajaan bawah tanah raksasa yang menguasai berbagai kegiatan bisnis ilegal, perjudian, taruhan pacuan kuda, dan serikat buruh. Tiran, pemeras, pembunuh—ia memberikan persahabatan tanpa ada yang berani menolak, serta menentukan mana yang benar dan salah.

Italien, zur Zeit der Renaissance. Schutzlos ist das Land den Kriegen ausgeliefert, die die Stadtstaaten gegeneinander führen. Auch in Rom herrschen gesetzlose Zustände: Kardinal Rodrigo Borgia beginnt ein grausames Intrigenspiel. Mario Puzo verwebt Fakten und Fiktion zu einem grandiosen Familienepos - ein überrwältigender Beweis seiner meisterhaften Erzählkunst. Die Borgias gelten in vielerlei Hinsicht als die erste wirklich kriminelle Familie Italiens. Und so war zum Aufzeichnen ihrer Geschichte niemand prädestinierter als Mario Puzo, Schöpfer und Autor der legendären Mafiasaga "Der Pate"! Puzo hegte den lebenslangen Traum, einen Roman über diese mächtige Familie der Borgias zu schreiben - der Familie, die in Italien zur Zeit der Renaissance eine so herausragende und bestimmende Rolle gespielt hat. Aus ihrer Mitte kamen Päpste und Politiker, sie hatte Einfluß auf die Geschicke des Landes im 15. Jahrhundert und stand als Sinnbild für eine üppige und verruchte Lebensführung einer skandalumwitterten und schillernden Dynastie.

New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organisations will rise . . . and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family''s future. His youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father''s true occupation. His adopted son, Tom Hagen, is a college student; but he worries most about Sonny, his oldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny - seventeen years old, impatient, and reckless - wants something else: to follow in his father''s footsteps, and become a part of the real family business. An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, THE FAMILY CORLEONE carries on the legacy of The Godfather for a new generation.

Het hoofd van een gangsterbende in Amerika leeft volgens een eigen moraal en helpt zijn aanhangers in allerlei moeilijkheden in ruil voor hun trouw aan zijn politiek.

A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient 1991 novel, The Fourth K. President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in large part, thanks to the legacy of his forebears– good looks, privilege, wealth–and is the very embodiment of youthful optimism. Too soon, however, he is beaten down by the political process and, disabused of his ideals, he becomes a leader totally unlike what he has been before. When his daughter becomes a pawn in a brutal terrorist plot, Kennedy, who has obsessively kept alive the memory of his uncles’ assassinations, activates all his power to retaliate in a series of violent measures. As the explosive events unfold, the world and those closest to him look on with both awe and horror.

An explosive, non-stop thriller following one man’s trail of violence across post-war Europe from the bestselling author of The Godfather. Michael Rogan was an intelligence officer behind enemy lines in World War II. But he made the mistake of falling in love, which gave him something to lose—or to be taken from him. Captured by the Nazis, Michael was treated as an experiment. A piece of meat. A subject upon which his captors committed atrocity upon atrocity. But not before they did the same to his wife—and unborn son. He''s lived with the horror of that experience for ten years. Now, Michael Rogan has returned to Europe to find the men who tortured him. And he''s going to make sure that they never have to live with the horror as he did...They will die with it. First published under a pseudonym in 1967, Six Graves to Munich was Mario Puzo’s literary predecessor to his legendary novel, The Godfather. In this unsung classic, Puzo’s trademark unflinchingly stark writing style, vivid descriptive skill, and relentless pace are exemplified in the genre of the spy novel. In his hands, the classic tale of revenge becomes a haunting study of humanity at its most visceral, offering a glimpse into a damaged soul whose only remaining purpose for living is to kill.

After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo''s classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work—a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . . The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Guiliano back with him to America. But Guiliano is a man entwined in a bloody web of violence and vendettas. In Sicily, Guiliano is a modern day Robin Hood who has defied corruption—and defied the Cosa Nostra. Now, in the land of mist-shrouded mountains and ancient ruins, Michael Corleone''s fate is entwined with the dangerous legend of Salvatore Guiliano: warrior, lover, and the ultimate Siciliano. Praise for The Sicilian “Puzo is a master storyteller.”—USA Today “The Balzac of the mafia.”—Time “An accomplished and imaginative writer.”—Los Angeles Times

FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GODFATHER - "A classic... The novel is lifted into literature by its highly charged language, its penetrating insights, and its mixture of tenderness and rage." - New York Times Book Review Described by the author as his "best and most literary book." Puzo''s classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell''s Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant, comic and violent, The Fortunate Pilgrim is Italian-American fiction at its very best. The book''s hero, Lucia Santa, is an incredibly captivating character and based on Puzo''s very own mother - he describes, "her wisdom, her ruthlessness, and her unconquerable love for her family and for life itself, qualities not valued in women at the time."

What is a family? Mario Puzo first answered that question, unforgettably, in his landmark bestseller The Godfather; with the creation of the Corleones he forever redefined the concept of blood loyalty. Now, thirty years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject, in a masterpiece that crowns his remarkable career: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history -- the Borgias. In The Family, this singular novelist transports his readers back to fifteenth-century Rome and reveals the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican as surely as he once revealed the secrets of the Mafia. At the story''s center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites for power, luxury, and women were matched only by his consuming love of family. Surrounding him are his extraordinary children: the simple, unloved Jofre; the irascible, heartless Juan; the beautiful, strong-willed Lucrezia; and the passionate warrior Cesare, Machiavelli''s friend and inspiration. Their intermingled stories constitute a symphony of human emotion and behavior, from pride to romance to jealousy to betrayal and murderous rage. And their time, place, and characters are recaptured in all their earthy, human grandeur, with the unerring insight and compassion that were Mario Puzo''s great gifts. A labor of love two decades in the making, The Family marks the final triumph of one of the greatest storytellers of our time.

“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 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. That time has arrived. The don is dead, his murder one bloody act in a drama of ambition and deceit—from the deadly compromises made by an FBI agent to the greed of two crooked NYPD detectives and the frightening plans of a South American Mob kingpin. In a collision of enemies and lovers, betrayers and loyal soldiers, Astorre Viola will claim his destiny. Because after all these years, this moment is in his blood. . . . “In Omerta (the Sicilian code for silence), Puzo sements his reputation as a page-turning storyteller.”—Detroit Free Press “More tasty twists than a plate of fusilli . . . Cunning entanglements with an FBI gangbuster, crooked cops and strong women sauce up this deft and passionate last novel by the Balzac of the Mafia.”—Time

"PUZO IS IN TOP FORM." *Time The Last Don is Mario Puzo at his finest, thrilling us with his greatest Mafia novel since The Godfather *a masterful saga of the last great American crime family and its powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas. "THE MOST ENTERTAINING READ SINCE THE GODFATHER." *The New York Times Book Review The Last Don is Domenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless old 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. "SKILLFULLY CRAFTED . . . IT GIVES US HOLLYWOOD, LAS VEGAS, AND THE MOB IN ONE SWEET DISH." *Los Angeles Times Book Review The Last Don 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 hitmen are ruled by lust and violence, where sleazy producers and greedy studio heads are drunk on power, where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, and where one man controls them all. . . . "Head-long entertainment, bubbling over with corruption, betrayal, assassinations, Richter-scale romance, and, of course, family values." *Time "Puzo returns after a quarter century to the terrain of his greatest success, The Godfather, to tell a second masterful tale of Mafia life." *Variety "A compelling tale peopled by memorable characters. . . . Puzo is a master storyteller with an uncanny facility for details that force the reader to keep the pages turning." *USA Today "From the Paperback edition.

The first trade paperback edition of "The Godfather" features a new Introduction and a new Afterword. "Big, turbulent, highly entertaining."--"Newsweek." Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Topical memoirs by the author of "The Godfather" on his Italian background, gambling, crime, the making of "The Godfather" film, etc.

Walter Mosca returns to the USA a changed man, hardened and embittered by the brutality of World War II. But he is compelled to return to Germany, the land of the enemy, by his need for Hella, the woman who accepts the rage and cruelty of the world.

Giới thiệu về tác phẩm: Thế giới ngầm được phản ánh trong tiểu thuyết Bố già là sự gặp gỡ giữa một bên là ý chí cương cường và nền tảng gia tộc chặt chẽ theo truyền thống mafia xứ Sicily với một bên là xã hội Mỹ nhập nhằng đen trắng, mảnh đất màu mỡ cho những cơ hội làm ăn bất chính hứa hẹn những món lợi kếch xù. Trong thế giới ấy, hình tượng Bố già được tác giả dày công khắc họa đã trở thành bức chân dung bất hủ trong lòng người đọc. Từ một kẻ nhập cư tay trắng đến ông trùm tột đỉnh quyền uy, Don Vito Corleone là con rắn hổ mang thâm trầm, nguy hiểm khiến kẻ thù phải kiềng nể, e dè, nhưng cũng được bạn bè, thân quyến xem như một đấng toàn năng đầy nghĩa khí. Nhân vật trung tâm ấy đồng thời cũng là hiện thân của một pho triết lí rất “đời” được nhào nặn từ vốn sống của hàng chục năm lăn lộn giữa chốn giang hồ bao phen vào sinh ra tử, vì thế mà có ý kiến cho rằng “Bố già là sự tổng hòa của mọi hiểu biết. Bố già là đáp án cho mọi câu hỏi”. Với cấu tứ hoàn hảo, cốt truyện không thiếu những pha hành động gay cấn, tình tiết bất ngờ và không khí kình địch đến nghẹt thở, Bố già xứng đáng là đỉnh cao trong sự nghiệp văn chương của Mario Puzo. Và như một cơ duyên đặc biệt, ngay từ năm 1971-1972, Bố già đã đến với bạn đọc trong nước qua phong cách chuyển ngữ hào sảng, đậm chất giang hồ của dịch giả Ngọc Thứ Lang. Nhận xét về tác phẩm: “Bố già là sự tổng hòa của mọi hiểu biết. Bố già là đáp án cho mọi câu hỏi.” - Diễn viên Tom Hanks “Bạn không thể dừng đọc nó và khó lòng ngừng mơ về nó.” - New York Times Magazine “Một tác phẩm kinh điển về mafia… Tự bản thân nó đã tạo ra một thứ bùa mê hoặc độc giả.” - The Times Mã hàng8936203360608Tên Nhà Cung CấpĐông ATác giảMario PuzoNgười DịchNgọc Thứ LangNXBNXB Văn HọcNăm XB2021Ngôn NgữTiếng ViệtTrọng lượng (gr)650Kích Thước Bao Bì24 x 16 cmSố trang536Hình thứcBìa CứngSản phẩm hiển thị trongĐông A Sản phẩm bán chạy nhấtTop 100 sản phẩm Tiểu thuyết bán chạy của thángGiá sản phẩm trên Fahasa.com đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như Phụ phí đóng gói, phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh,... Chính sách khuyến mãi trên Fahasa.com không áp dụng cho Hệ thống Nhà sách Fahasa trên toàn quốc Thế giới ngầm được phản ánh trong tiểu thuyết Bố già là sự gặp gỡ giữa một bên là ý chí cương cường và nền tảng gia tộc chặt chẽ theo truyền thống mafia xứ Sicily với một bên là xã hội Mỹ nhập nhằng đen trắng, mảnh đất màu mỡ cho những cơ hội làm ăn bất chính hứa hẹn những món lợi kếch xù. Trong thế giới ấy, hình tượng Bố già được tác giả dày công khắc họa đã trở thành bức chân dung bất hủ trong lòng người đọc. Từ một kẻ nhập cư tay trắng đến ông trùm tột đỉnh quyền uy, Don Vito Corleone là con rắn hổ mang thâm trầm, nguy hiểm khiến kẻ thù phải kiềng nể, e dè, nhưng cũng được bạn bè, thân quyến xem như một đấng toàn năng đầy nghĩa khí. Nhân vật trung tâm ấy đồng thời cũng là hiện thân của một pho triết lí rất “đời” được nhào nặn từ vốn sống của hàng chục năm lăn lộn giữa chốn giang hồ bao phen vào sinh ra tử, vì thế mà có ý kiến cho rằng “Bố già là sự tổng hòa của mọi hiểu biết. Bố già là đáp án cho mọi câu hỏi”. Với cấu tứ hoàn hảo, cốt truyện không thiếu những pha hành động gay cấn, tình tiết bất ngờ và không khí kình địch đến nghẹt thở, Bố già xứng đáng là đỉnh cao trong sự nghiệp văn chương của Mario Puzo. Và như một cơ duyên đặc biệt, ngay từ năm 1971-1972, Bố già đã đến với bạn đọc trong nước qua phong cách chuyển ngữ hào sảng, đậm chất giang hồ của dịch giả Ngọc Thứ Lang. Nhận xét về tác phẩm: “Bố già là sự tổng hòa của mọi hiểu biết. Bố già là đáp án cho mọi câu hỏi.” - Diễn viên Tom Hanks “Bạn không thể dừng đọc nó và khó lòng ngừng mơ về nó.” - New York Times Magazine “Một tác phẩm kinh điển về mafia… Tự bản thân nó đã tạo ra một thứ bùa mê hoặc độc giả.” - The Times