by Mario Puzo · CIRCULO DE LECTORES. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422601456
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«El padrino» is the crime novel by Mario Puzo, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (527 pages, in Spanish).
The story centres on the Corleone family and its patriarch, Vito, a respected don in New York who came from Sicily. Mafia business, loyalties and betrayals intertwine as Vito's son takes on the weight of the inheritance of power.
Originally published in 1969 as «The Godfather», it is the first instalment of the eponymous series; this edition has a translation by Ángel Arnau Casas.
For readers of crime fiction and for those who want to follow the Corleone saga from its first instalment.
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.
