教父三部曲

The Godfather #1-3

by Mario Puzo, 姚向辉 (Translator)

《教父三部曲典藏版(2014全新完整译本)》内容简介：

《教父(全新完整译本)》内容简介：

“为了正义，我们必须去求唐·柯里昂。”向唐·柯里昂求助的人，希望从不会落空。他说一不二，不许空头支票，他是黑手党的教父，他主宰着纽约的地下世界，他是弱者的守护神。你只需要拿出真诚的友谊，就能够得到他的庇护。唐的家族拒绝染指毒品生意，遭到其他黑手党报复。唐·柯里昂受到重创，但是苦难使他和儿子们的关系更加亲密，让家族变得更加强大。小儿子迈克尔·柯里昂在危机时刻谨记父亲的教诲。他选择了家族、荣誉和责任，他为兄弟复仇、为家族清理门户，成为家族的继承者，成为新的教父。面对无法摆脱的宿命，你需要《教父》的指引。这是以眼还眼，以牙还牙的绝对公平。



《教父2:西西里人(全新修订译本)》内容简介：

1950年，迈克尔·柯里昂即将结束在西西里的流亡。教父命令他把一个叫萨尔瓦多·吉里安诺的土匪带到美国。但是吉里安诺背负着沉重的血债深仇。吉里安诺是西西里的罗宾汉，他反抗腐败的政府、藐视黑手党的事业。在迷雾笼罩的群山峻岭和古老的遗迹之中，迈克尔·柯里昂的命运与最危险战士、情人和西西里人——吉里安诺息息相关。

1449 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 2014

About the author

Puzo was born in a poor family of Neapolitan immigrants living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York. Many of his books draw heavily on this heritage. After graduating from the City College of New York, he joined the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. Due to his poor eyesight, the military did not let him undertake combat duties but made him a public relations officer stationed in Germany. In 1950, his first short story, The Last Christmas, was published in American Vanguard. After the war, he wrote his first book, The Dark Arena, which was published in 1955.

At periods in the 1950s and early 1960s, Puzo worked as a writer/editor for publisher Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company. Puzo, along with other writers like Bruce Jay Friedman, worked for the company line of men's magazines, pulp titles like Male, True Action, and Swank. Under the pseudonym Mario Cleri, Puzo wrote World War II adventure features for True Action.

Puzo's most famous work, The Godfather, was first published in 1969 after he had heard anecdotes about Mafia organizations during his time in pulp journalism. He later said in an interview with Larry King that his principal motivation was to make money. He had already, after all, written two books that had received great reviews, yet had not amounted to much. As a government clerk with five children, he was looking to write something that would appeal to the masses. With a number one bestseller for months on the New York Times Best Seller List, Mario Puzo had found his target audience. The book was later developed into the film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie received 11 Academy Award nominations, winning three, including an Oscar for Puzo for Best Adapted Screenplay. Coppola and Puzo collaborated then to work on sequels to the original film, The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III.

Puzo wrote the first draft of the script for the 1974 disaster film Earthquake, which he was unable to continue working on due to his commitment to The Godfather Part II. Puzo also co-wrote Richard Donner's Superman and the original draft for Superman II. He also collaborated on the stories for the 1982 film A Time to Die and the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola film The Cotton Club.

Puzo never saw the publication of his penultimate book, Omertà, but the manuscript was finished before his death, as was the manuscript for The Family. However, in a review originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jules Siegel, who had worked closely with Puzo at Magazine Management Company, speculated that Omertà may have been completed by "some talentless hack." Siegel also acknowledges the temptation to "rationalize avoiding what is probably the correct analysis -- that [Puzo] wrote it and it is terrible."

Puzo died of heart failure on July 2, 1999 at his home in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York. His family now lives in East Islip, New York.