num_pages: 446
description: The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone's desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic, The Godfather is the definitive gangster novel.
language: English
title: The Godfather
titlecomplete: The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
characters: Constanzia "Connie" Corleone, Rocco Lampone, Don Vito Corleone, Tom Hagen, Fredo "Freddie" Corleone, Peter "Pete" Clemenza, Michael "Mike" Corleone, Santino "Sonny" Corleone, Johnny Fontane, Luca Brasi, Al Neri
genres: Fiction, American, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 407159
places: Sicily, New York (State), The United States of America
series: The Godfather, Mario Puzo's Mafia
publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons