The Sicilian

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Fifteen vears ago, Mario Puzo wrote a new chapter in publishing historv. TheGodfather sold more than 15 millión copies in the United States alone; the vvorld it depicted won a permanent place in our idiom. Now, with TheSicilian, Mario Puzo has forged out of historv, n'wth and imaginatiori a book that surpasses his own modern classic.
The növel begins with Michael Corleone at the end of his two-year exile in Sicily. The Godfather has charged him with a mission: not to return to America until he can. bring with him a young man named Salvatore Guiliano if he can find him. The story opens out from here into new territory, new dimensions of charac-ter, explored with Puzo's familiar power.
Guiliano, like Don Corleone, is a leg-end in his own time: a bandit, in fact, who at only twenty years of age began his effective rule over most of Western Sicily. A latter-day Robin Hood, he raids from the mountains surrounding Palermo, fighting with his band for the rights of his peasant... Tovább

Fülszöveg

$17.95
Fifteen vears ago, Mario Puzo wrote a new chapter in publishing historv. TheGodfather sold more than 15 millión copies in the United States alone; the vvorld it depicted won a permanent place in our idiom. Now, with TheSicilian, Mario Puzo has forged out of historv, n'wth and imaginatiori a book that surpasses his own modern classic.
The növel begins with Michael Corleone at the end of his two-year exile in Sicily. The Godfather has charged him with a mission: not to return to America until he can. bring with him a young man named Salvatore Guiliano if he can find him. The story opens out from here into new territory, new dimensions of charac-ter, explored with Puzo's familiar power.
Guiliano, like Don Corleone, is a leg-end in his own time: a bandit, in fact, who at only twenty years of age began his effective rule over most of Western Sicily. A latter-day Robin Hood, he raids from the mountains surrounding Palermo, fighting with his band for the rights of his peasant countrymen against the corrupt government of Rome. With him, sharing the mantle of legend, is his cousin and dearest friend, Aspanu Pisciotta. In a land normally ruled by terror, it is these two who speak—and if necessarv, kill—in the name of justice.
But Guiliano enters into his deadliest battle not with the police, not with the vast army sent against him by Rome, but with Don Croce Malo, Capo di Capi of the \lafia. In Sicily, where the Mafia has its roots, it is the "Friends of the Friends" who are Guiliano's most lethal enemies. In challenging Don Croce's iron grip over the
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island, Guiliano sets in motion a warof cross and double-cross in which the loser surelv must die.
In the end, it is up to Michae! Corleone, at sea amid the treacheries of this brutal, unfamiliar land, to sort through the labvrinthine deceits that surround him. Before the final curtain, each antago-nist vvill plav his last card against his deadlv enemy. Guiliano's is the subtle weapon he has been honing for seven years. Don Croce's is a plot even more ingenious—and infinitely more cruel.
TheSrcihan is a növel of explosive sus-pense, heroic action—and evil on an epic scale. Here the reader knows again the terrible magic of the Mafia, and of Mr. Puzo's brilliandy sinister talent.
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About the Author
Mario Puzo was born in "Hell's Kitchen" ón Manhattan's West Side and, follovving military service in World War II, attended New York's New School for Social Research and Columbia University. His best known növel, The Godfather, was pre-ceded by two critically acclaimed novels published in the early sixties, The Fortu-natePilgrim and The DarkAréna; in 1978, lie published Foo/s Die. Mr. Puzo is alsó the author of six sereenplays, including Superman and Superman II. For both of his screen adaptations of The Godfather he won Academy Awards.
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