by Mario Puzo · RBA. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447301201
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«El padrino» is Mario Puzo's mafia novel, published by RBA in hardback (414 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Vito Corleone, a Sicilian immigrant who becomes the head of one of the most powerful organized crime families in New York. Amid illegal business, family loyalties and betrayals, it portrays the codes, power intrigues and personal cost imposed by the mafia.
First instalment of the The Godfather series. Translation by Ángel Arnau. Edition from RBA's Grandes éxitos collection, number 2.
Will appeal to readers of crime fiction and to those who want to discover the classic on which Francis Ford Coppola's film was based.
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.
