title:The godfather
By Mario Puzo
Publisher Name: arrow
Publication time: 2009
Language: English
ISBN：9780099528128
Item size: 12.7 x 4.1 x 19.3 cm
Packing: paperback
Number of pages: 608
The godfather is a mans Bible, the sum of wisdom and the answer to all questions.
★ the film The Godfather Trilogy of the same name is known as the greatest film in history and won nine Oscar Awards.
★ "Godfather" was rated as "great role in film history".
★ puzzo, who participated in the creation of three screenplays of the godfather, won the Oscar screenwriter award twice.
The GodfatherGodfatherIt is the first of Mario Puzos "Godfather Trilogy". It is regarded as the "Bible of men" and the originator of gangster novels. It is a classic that cant be missed. It is recommended by readers from all over the world that its film of the same name won nine Oscars and is deeply loved by the audience.
Media review:
Thats the stuff of a best-selling novel——Publisher weekly
The story of the godfather is so convincing that it blurs reality and fiction. This novel is amazing and will be loved by readers for a long time, just as Italians love sausage——New York Times
Mario Puzo is barzac of the Mafia——Time magazine
Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, areasonable man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather.
A modern masterpiece,The Godfather is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia. Still shocking forty years after it was first published, this compelling tale of blackmail, murder and family values is a true classic.
Review
"The narrative bowls along... to keep readers turning pages all the way to an explosive showdown."(Daily Mail)
"Here is all the classic material of Mafia mythology... spins a spell all its own"(The Times)
"The Godfather, one of the most entertaining and absorbing popular novels of the postwar period... Puzos masterpiece"(Robert McCrum Observer)
"A splendid and distinguished blood saga of the Cosa Nostra, the American Mafia, and of the whirl created by five families of mafiosi at war in New York"(Sunday Times)
"Puzos genius was to create a world so thick with personality and acknowledged rules of behaviour, along with its crime and violence, that reading his books becomes a seriously guilty pleasure"(New York Post)
Mario Puzo(Mario Puzo, 1920-1999), American novelist. His masterpiece "Godfather" opened a new era of gangster novels. Once it was published, it occupied the New York Times novel list for 67 weeks, and has achieved a sales miracle of 21million copies. It is still a best-selling novel in the American publishing industry. Two years after its publication, the film adapted from the godfather continues the brilliance of the novel, and the trilogy of the godfather is a world-famous Great film. Puzo, who wrote three screenplays of the godfather, won an Oscar twice as a screenwriter. Time commented, "Mario Puzo is the godfather of popular fiction."
Mario Puzo was born in New York. He is the author of the bestselling novel The Godfather and many other acclaimed novels. Puzo also wrote many screenplays, including those for the three Godfather movies, for which he won two academy awards. He died at his home in Long Island, New York, at the age of seventy-eight.
AMERIGO Bonascra sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice;
vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her.
The judge, a formidably heavy-featured man, rolled up the sleeves of his black robe as if to physically chastise the two young men standing before the bench. His face was cold with majestic contempt. But there was something false in all this that Amerigo Bonasera sensed but did not yet understand.
“You acted like the worst kind of degenerates,” the judge said harshly. Yes, yes, thought Amerigo Bonasera. Animals. Animals. The two young men, glossy hair crew cut, scrubbed clean-cut faces composed into humble contrition, bowed their heads in submission.
The judge went on. “You acted like wild beasts in a jungle and you are fortunate you did not sexually molest that poor girl or Id put you behind bars for twenty years.” The judge paused, his eyes beneath impressively thick brows flickered slyly toward the sallow-faced Amerigo Bonasera, then lowered to a stack of probation reports before him. He frowned and shrugged as if convinced against his own natural desire. He spoke again.
“But because of your youth, your clean records, because of your fine families, and because the law in its majesty does not seek vengeance, I hereby sentence you to three years’ confinement to the penitentiary. Sentence to be suspended.”
Only forty years of professional mourning kept the overwhelming frustration and hatred from showing on Amerigo Bonasera’s face. His beautiful young daughter was still in the hospital with her broken jaw wired together; and now these two animates went free? It had all been a farce. He watched the happy parents cluster around their darling sons. Oh, they were all happy now, they were smiling now.
The black bile, sourly hitter, rose in Bonasera’s throat, overflowed through tightly clenched teeth. He used his white linen pocket handkerchief and held it against his lips. He was standing so when the two young men strode freely up the aisle, confident and cool-eyed, smiling, not giving him so much as a glance. He let them pass without saying a word, pressing the fresh linen against his mouth.
