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'We are a family,' Alexander told his children.
'And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and everyone else. We must learn from each other, protect each other, and be bound first and foremost to each other. For if we honour that commitment, we will never be vanquished - but if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned'
In a tale of brutality and betrayal that crowns Mario Puzo's remarkable career, he brings us the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history - the Borgias.
'And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and everyone else. We must learn from each other, protect each other, and be bound first and foremost to each other. For if we honour that commitment, we will never be vanquished - but if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned'
In a tale of brutality and betrayal that crowns Mario Puzo's remarkable career, he brings us the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history - the Borgias.
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"Keeps readers turning pages all the way to an explosive showdown" (Daily Mail)
"Headlong entertainment, bubbling over with corruption, betrayal, assassinations, Richter-scale romance, and, of course, family values" (Time)
"Hugely effective fiction...[Puzo] keeps his pact with readers to unfailingly deliver the goods" (Literary Review)
"Puzo is a master storyteller with an uncanny facility for details that force the reader to keep the pages turning. Call it a literary meat-hook" (USA Today)
"Puzo’s genius was to create a world so thick with personality and behaviour . . . that reading his books becomes a seriously guilty pleasure" (New York Post)
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"Headlong entertainment, bubbling over with corruption, betrayal, assassinations, Richter-scale romance, and, of course, family values" (Time)
"Hugely effective fiction...[Puzo] keeps his pact with readers to unfailingly deliver the goods" (Literary Review)
"Puzo is a master storyteller with an uncanny facility for details that force the reader to keep the pages turning. Call it a literary meat-hook" (USA Today)
"Puzo’s genius was to create a world so thick with personality and behaviour . . . that reading his books becomes a seriously guilty pleasure" (New York Post)
From the creator of one of literature's most unforgettable families - the Corleones inThe Godfather - comes a mesmerizing novel about familial love and bloody loyalty
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- Data di pubblicazione2009
- ISBN 10 009953326X
- ISBN 13 9780099533269
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine432
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. _____________________________________From the legendary author of THE GODFATHER comes a novel of the original Italian crime familyFifteenth-century Italy. The Renaissance is in full swing, heralding a new golden age for Europe. But where there is gold and power there are those who are willing to do anything to get their hands on them.Enter the Borgias. Headed by Rodrigo Borgia, better known as Pope Alexander VI, this tight-knit family is fighting to keep its iron grip on Italy but theirs is a lethal game, and the cost of failure is surely death.Scheming and plotting for their own ends are his children: Giovanni, the much-favoured golden boy; his younger brother Cesare, jealous and vicious; and Lucrezia, cunning, calculating and passionate. The Borgias face immense opposition from all quarters of Italy, but their deadliest foes may be far closer to home._____________________________________A tale of brutality and betrayal that crowns Mario Puzo's remarkable career_____________________________________'We are a family,' Alexander told his children. 'And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and everyone else. We must learn from each other, protect each other, and be bound first and foremost to each other. For if we honour that commitment, we will never be vanquished but if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned.' Headed by Rodrigo Borgia, better known as Pope Alexander VI, this tight-knit family is fighting to keep its iron grip on Italy but theirs is a lethal game, and the cost of failure is surely death.Scheming and plotting for their own ends are his children: Giovanni, the much-favoured golden boy; Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780099533269
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Descrizione libro Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 'We are a family,' Alexander told his children. For if we honour that commitment, we will never be vanquished - but if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned' In a tale of brutality and betrayal that crowns Mario Puzo's remarkable career, he brings us the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history - the Borgias. Codice articolo B9780099533269
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