El siciliano

Author: Mario Puzo
- Fiction
- Ediciones B; Tra edition
- ISBN: 9788498726121
- Release Date: 07-06-2012

Synopsis


El exilio de dos anos en Sicilia de Michael Corleone, hijo de Don Vito, esta a punto de acabar, pero su padre le ha encomendado una mision: no debe volver a Estados Unidos si no es con Salvatore Giuliano. Giuliano es una autentica leyenda, un mito popular. En 1943, el joven Giuliano y su primo Gaspare Pisciotta se rebelaron contra una patrulla de carabinieri que los encontro traficando con alimentos. A raiz de aquello se refugiaron en las montanas y empezaron a luchar por los menesterosos sicilianos que se encontraban bajo el yugo de la Mafia y la corrupcion del Gobierno de Roma. Formaron una banda de forajidos y pronto se convirtieron en toda una leyenda.

Michael Corleone is returning to the U.S. after the two-year exile to Sicily in which reader left him in The Godfather. But he is ordered to bring with him the young Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Guiliano, who is the unofficial ruler of northwestern Sicily. In his fight ""to make Sicilians free people,"" the young folk hero, based on the real-life Giuliano of the 1940's, has made both the police and the Mafia his enemies. So when Don Croce Malo, chief of the Sicilian Mafia, and the policemen who has been tracking Guiliano each offer to help Corleone find the elusive Robin Hood, betrayal seems inevitable.

About the Author

Place of Birth:octubre 15, 1920Date of Birth:Show LessAuthor biography courtesy of Random House, Inc.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, (1969) was preceded by two critically acclaimed novels, The Dark Arena (1955) and The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965). In 1978, he published Fools Die, followed by The Sicilian (1984), The Fourth K (1990), and the second installment in his Mafia trilogy, The Last Don (1996), which became an international bestseller and the highest-rated TV miniseries of 1997.BiographyLifelong New Yorker Mario Puzo drew upon figures in his Italian-American family to create the characters in his smash hit The Godfather in 1969; but he claimed never to have met a real-life mobster, and his detailed portrait of the Mafia world came entirely from diligent research.

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