by Mario Puzo · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422614715
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«El Padrino» is the novel by Mario Puzo, published by Círculo de Lectores in 1982 in hardback (527 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Vito Corleone, a Sicilian who emigrated to New York and becomes the city's most respected Don, and his son, heir to a family business marked by loyalty and power. The story delves into the inner workings of the mafia: its hierarchies, its codes of honour and the tension between blood ties and criminal activity.
El Padrino was originally published in 1969; years later, Mario Puzo contributed to the screenplays of Francis Ford Coppola's film trilogy.
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.
