The Godfather
Mario Puzo, 1969
A family saga about favors, loyalty and the cost of being owed—still the blueprint for every crime epic.
Mario Puzo
Puzo wrote The Godfather while in debt and later said he wrote it to make money; it became one of the best-selling novels of the 1970s.
Feels like morality, family and dread.
What a father says when he has stopped believing in America.
The undertaker closed his eyes for a moment and then began to speak. His voice was quiet, the voice he used to console the bereaved. “I raised my daughter in the American fashion. I believe in America. America has made my fortune. I gave my daughter her freedom and yet taught her never to dishonor her family. She found a ‘boy friend,’ not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out late. But he never came to meet her parents. I accepted all this without a protest, the fault is mine. Two months ago he took her for a drive. He had a masculine friend with him. They made her drink whiskey and then they tried to take advantage of her. She resisted. She kept her honor. They beat her. Like an animal. When I went to the hospital she had two black eyes. Books by Mario Puzo
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