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Mario Puzo

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Kummisetä on italialaissyntyisen yhdysvaltalaisen Mario Puzon vuonna 1969 julkaistu romaani. Teoksen on suomentanut Pekka Hakala 1971 WSOY:lle. Romaani on saavuttanut suuren suosion. Se kertoo amerikanitalialaisen rikollissuvun Corleonen perheen tarinan 1940-luvulta 1950-luvulle.

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Mafiaromaanien kiistämättömin kärkinimi. Newyorkinitalialaisesta mafiasuvusta kertova kirja on sementoinut asemansa rikos- ja sukuromaanien joukossa ja saavuttanut klassikon aseman myös Francis Ford Coppolan filmatisointina. Corleonen mafiasuku on pitänyt valtaa New Yorkin alamaailmassa jo pitkään, joskin …

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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 …

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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 …