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More crucial than the tersely described violence is the emotional setting: a traditional, loving clan menaced by traditional vendettas. With Don Aprile hit, the family's fate lies in the strong hands of his adopted nephew from Sicily, Astorre. The Don kept his own kids sheltered from the Mafia: one son is an army officer; another is a TV exec; his daughter Nicole (the most developed character of the three) is an ace lawyer who liked to debate the Don on the death penalty. "Mercy is a vice, a pretension to powers we do not have ... an unpardonable offense to the victim," the Don maintained. Astorre, a macaroni importer and affable amateur singer, was secretly trained to carry on the Don's work. Now his job is to show no mercy.
But who did the hit? Was it Kurt Cilke, the morally tormented FBI man who recently jailed most of the Mafia bosses? Or Timmona Portella, the Mob boss Cilke still wants to collar? How about Marriano Rubio, the womanizing, epicurean Peruvian diplomat who wants Nicole in bed--did he also want her papa's head?
If you didn't know Puzo wrote Omerta, it would be no mystery. His marks are all over it: lean prose, a romance with the Old Country, a taste for olives in barrels, a jaunty cynicism ("You cannot send six billionaires to prison," says Cilke's boss. "Not in a democracy"), an affection for characters with flawed hearts, like Rudolfo the $1,500-an-hour sexual massage therapist, or his short-tempered client Aspinella, the one-eyed NYPD detective. The simultaneous courtship of cheery Mafia tramp Rosie by identical hit-man twins Frankie and Stace Sturzo makes you fall in love with them all--and feel a genuine pang when blood proves thicker than eros.
This fitting capstone to Puzo's career is optioned for a film, and Michael Imperioli of TV's The Sopranos narrates the audiocassette version of the novel. But why wait for the movie? Omerta is a big, old-fashioned movie in its own right. --Tim Appelo
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: NEUF. « Le roman le plus passionnant que Puzo ait écrit depuis Le Sicilien, et où l'on retrouve sa voix mûrie par l'âge et la sagesse. » Publisher's Weekly Avec l'assassinat de Don Raymondo Aprile, s'écroule tout un rêve américain. Blanchiment de sa fortune, régularisation de ses affaires, subtils investissements : le vieux parrain new-yorkais, retiré de Cosa Nostra, avait gagné, pour lui et pour les siens, une place immaculée dans la haute société. Pourtant, à peine les funérailles dites, ses trois enfants assistent stupéfaits au sacre mafieux de leur cousin, le play-boy Astorre Viola. A lui, l'allégeance des Affranchis. A lui l'empire et la vengeance. A lui de sauver la famille du piège mortel qu'ont tendu des ennemis aussi implacables qu'inconnus. Mais les leçons criminelles d'hier valent-elles encore pour aujourd'hui ? Que peuvent les antiques lois de l'honneur et du silence, l'Omerta, contre les flots d'argent et de sang ? Quelle idée avait le Don en préparant son neveu à sa succession ? Et pourquoi ce secret autour de la naissance d'Astorre ? Des Etats-Unis à la Sicile, et retour, Puzo impose comme jamais son art, où l'odeur des orangeraies de Palerme rivalise avec celle des arrière-cours de Brooklyn. Auteur mythique du best-seller mondial, Le Parrain, couronné de nombreux oscars à l'écran, Mario Puzo a également publié Le Dernier Parrain paru aux éditions Lattès. Il est mort fin 1999, juste après avoir achevé Omerta, son livre testament. - Nombre de page(s) : 424 p. - Poids : 0g - Langue : fre - Genre : Policier / Thriller grand format Suspense & Cie. Seller Inventory # N9782709621823