The Sicilian

Zusatztext “Puzo is a master storyteller.” — USA Today “The Balzac of the mafia.” — Time “An accomplished and imaginative writer.” — Los Angeles Times Informationen zum Autor Mario Puzo was born in New York and, following military service in World War II, attended New York's New School for Social Research and Columbia University. His bestselling novel The Godfather was preceded by two critically acclaimed novels, The Dark Arena and The Fortunate Pilgrim. In 1978, he published Fools Die, followed by The Sicilian, The Fourth K, and the second installment in his Mafia trilogy, The Last Don. Mario Puzo also wrote many screenplays, including those for Earthquake, Superman, and all three Godfather movies, for which he received two Academy Awards. He died in July 1999 at his home on Long Island, New York, at the age of seventy-eight, just after completing the manuscript of his novel, Omerta. Klappentext After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather! he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel! The Sicilian! stands as a cornerstone of his work-a lushly romantic! unforgettable tale of bloodshed! justice! and treachery. . . . The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Guiliano back with him to America. But Guiliano is a man entwined in a bloody web of violence and vendettas. In Sicily! Guiliano is a modern day Robin Hood who has defied corruption-and defied the Cosa Nostra. Now! in the land of mist-shrouded mountains and ancient ruins! Michael Corleone's fate is entwined with the dangerous legend of Salvatore Guiliano: warrior! lover! and the ultimate Siciliano. Praise for The Sicilian "Puzo is a master storyteller."-USA Today "The Balzac of the mafia."-Time "An accomplished and imaginative writer."-Los Angeles Times Leseprobe MICHAEL CORLEONE STOOD on a long wooden dock in Palermo and watched the great ocean liner set sail for America.He was to have sailed on that ship,but new in- structions had come from his father. He waved goodbye to the men on the little oshing boat who had brought him to this dock,men who had guarded him these past years.The oshing boat rode the white wake of the ocean liner,a brave little duckling after its mother. The men on it waved back;he would see them no more. The dock itself was alive with scurrying laborers in caps and baggy clothes unloading other ships,loading trucks that had come to the long dock.They were small wiry men who looked more Arabic than Italian,wearing billed caps that obscured their faces.Amongst them would be new body- guards making sure he came to no harm before he met with Don Croce Malo,Capo di Capi of the "Friends of the Friends,"as they were called here in Sicily.Newspapers and the outside world called them the Ma oa,but in Sicily the word Ma oa never passed the lips of the ordinary citizen.As they would never call Don Croce Malo the Capo di Capi but only "The Good Soul." In his two years of exile in Sicily,Michael had heard many tales about Don Croce,some so fantastic that he al- most did not believe in the existence of such a man.But the instructions relayed from his father were explicit: he was ordered to have lunch with Don Croce this very day.And the two of them were to arrange for the escape from Sicily of the country 's greatest bandit, Salvatore Guiliano. Michael Corleone could not leave Sicily without Guiliano. Down at the end of the pier,no more than fifty yards away,a huge dark car was parked in the narrow street. Standing before it were three men,dark rectangles cut out of the glaring sheet of light that fell like a wall of gold from the sun.Michael walked toward them.He<...

Product details

• Authors: Mario Puzo
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2001
• EAN: 9780345441706
• ISBN: 978-0-345-44170-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 175 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Ballantine Books
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature