Omerta
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Publisher Description
Den tidligere mafialeder Don Raymonde Aprile bliver skudt ned uden for kirken efter sit barnebarns konfirmation. Hans rystede børn og børnebørn må se den gamle mand forbløde for øjnene af dem. Ingen fatter hvorfor. Nok har hans børn haft mistanke om faderens kriminelle fortid og grundlaget for den gigantiske familieformue, men Aprile har altid holdt den nære familie udenfor og gjort sine tre børn til respektable borgere med fornemme uddannelser. Kun hans adopterede nevø Astorre synes at vide, hvad der skal gøres.
Astorre, der på overfladen er en almindelig makaroniimportør i USA, er nemlig i al hemmelighed blevet trænet til at overtage og beskytte Don Apriles forretninger og børn. Men vil Astorre opgive sit luksusliv? Og er han i stand til at løfte arven efter Don Aprile og tage den hævn, der rettelig tilkommer den store Don’s håndlangere?
Bogen blev oprindeligt udgivet i 2000. Denne danske oversættelse blev oprindeligt udgivet i 2004.
Mario Puzo (1920-1999) var en amerikansk romanforfatter, hvis bøger ofte skildrer Amerikas kriminelle underverden og bagsiden af den amerikanske drøm. Blandt hans værker er den udødelige klassiker ”The Godfather” fra 1961 (da. 1971), som blev filmatiseret under samme navn med Francis Ford Coppola som instruktør og Mario Puzo selv som manuskriptforfatter.
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"The dead have no friends," says one gangster to another in Puzo's final novel, as they plot to kill America's top Mafioso. But Puzo, despite his death last year at age 78, should gain many new friends for this operatic thriller, his most absorbing since The Sicilian. The slain mobster is the elderly Don Raymonde Aprile. His heirs, around whom the violent, vastly emotional narrative swirls, are his three children and one nephew. It's the nephew, Astorre Viola, who inherits the Don's legacy and transforms before his cousins' astonished eyes from a foppish playboy into a Man of Honor, as he avenges the Don's death and protects his family from those hungry for its prime possession: banks that will earn legitimate billions in the years ahead. Astorre's change is no surprise to the few aged mobsters who know that, as a youth, he was trained to be a Qualified Man, or to the fewer still who knowDas Astorre does notDthat his real father was a great Sicilian Mafioso. Arrayed against Astorre in his pursuit of cruel justice are some of the sharpest Puzo characters ever, among them a corrupt and beautiful black New York policewoman; assassin twins; wiseguys galore, including a drug lord who seeks his own nuclear weapon; and, drawn in impressive shades of gray, a veteran FBI agent who imperils his family and his soul to destroy Astorre. Despite its familiar subject matter, the novelDwhich shuttles among Sicily, England and AmericaDis unpredictable and bracing, but its greatest strength is Puzo's voice, ripe with age and wisdom, as attentive to the scent of lemons and oranges in a Sicilian garden as to a good man's sudden, bloody death. This is pulp raised to art and a worthy memorial to the author, who one last time makes readers an offer they can't refuse. 500,000 first printing; simultaneous Random House audio and large print editions; to be a film from Miramax.
