by Mario Puzo · Grijalbo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425331411
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«Los tontos mueren» is the novel by Mario Puzo, published by Grijalbo in paperback (608 pages, in Spanish).
Merlyn, a young man who bears the name of the wizard from Arthurian legend, survives a turbulent youth marked by illegal activities and trouble with the law before discovering literature and becoming a successful novelist. The novel portrays his rise in a world of ambition and corruption, where success comes at a price.
Work originally published in 1978 in English as «Fools Die»; the Spanish edition, from 1997, was published by Grijalbo.
For readers of crime and suspense fiction and for those seeking stories of ambition set in the literary world.
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.
