by Mario Puzo · Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH & Co. KG / Ullstein Tas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783548243474
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«Der letzte Pate» is the novel by Mario Puzo, published by Ullstein Buchverlage in paperback (644 pages, in German).
Domenico Clericuzio, patriarch of a mafia family, tries to secure the future of his heirs in the legitimate world, but the secrets of the past trigger a war between two cousins. The story moves between the mafia, the film industry and casinos, where actresses, producers, police officers and gamblers are caught in a web of corruption, lust and betrayal.
Translation by Gisela Stege of the English original «The Last Don» (1996).
For readers of crime and noir fiction, especially fans of Mario Puzo and mafia stories.
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.
