マリオ・プーゾ

ゴッドファーザーは、アメリカの作家マリオ・プーゾによる犯罪小説である。 初版は1969年3月10日、G. P. Putnam's Sons社による。 ニューヨークとロングビーチに本拠地を置く、架空のシシリアン・マフィアのファミリーを描く。 ファミリーを率いるのはドン・ヴィトー・コルレオーネで、イタリアン・マフィアを象徴する男である。 小説には、1945年から1955年にかけてのファミリーの様相と、幼年期から青年期にかけてのヴィトー・コルレオーネを回想する場面とが、交互に描かれる。 小説のヒットにより、「コンシリエーレ consigliere = 相談役」「カポレジーム caporegime = 幹部」「コーサ・ノストラ Cosa …

The Sicilian is a novel by Italian-American author Mario Puzo. Published in 1984 by Random House Publishing Group, it is based on Puzo's most famous work, The Godfather. It is regarded as The Godfather's literary sequel. In this novel, the spelling of Salvatore Giuliano's name was intentionally changed by Puzo to …

Omertà is a novel by Mario Puzo, published posthumously in 2000. It was first published by Ballantine Books. Omertà follows the story of Don Aprile's adopted "nephew" Astorre Viola. This is the final book in Puzo's mafia trilogy. The first two were The Godfather and The Last Don.

The Last Don is a novel by Mario Puzo, best known as the author of The Godfather. The story alternates between the film industry and the Las Vegas Strip casinos, showing how the Mafia is linked to them both.

The Family is a 2001 novel written by Mario Puzo. The novel is about Pope Alexander VI and his family. Puzo spent over twenty years working on the book off and on, while he wrote others. The novel was finished by his longtime girlfriend, Carol Gino. The Family is effectively his last novel.

Fools Die is a 1978 novel by Italian American author Mario Puzo. Played out in the worlds of gambling, publishing and the film industry, Merlyn and his brother Artie obey their own code of honor in the ferment of contemporary America, where law and organized crime are one and the same. Set in New York, Hollywood, and …

The Fortunate Pilgrim is a 1965 novel by Mario Puzo. Until his dying day, Mario Puzo considered the novel his finest, most poetic, and literary work. In one of his last interviews he stated that he was saddened by the fact that The Godfather, a fiction he never liked, outshone the novel of his mother's honest …

The Fourth K is a novel by Mario Puzo, published in 1990. It is set during the Presidency of fictional "Francis Xavier Kennedy," nephew of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy.

The Dark Arena is the first novel by Mario Puzo, published in 1955. The book follows Walter Mosca, an American World War II veteran who returns to Germany for his girlfriend, Hella. The novel explores life in post-war Germany, a place where the standard currency is not the German mark or even the US dollar but US-made …