“Michael Corleone stood on a long wooden pier in Palermo and watched as a big ocean liner set off for America. He was supposed to sail on this ship, but new instructions arrived from his father.”
So begins the novel by the famous American writer Mario Puzo, “The Sicilian,” which is commonly considered a continuation of “The Godfather”—because it tells the story of the fate of Don Corleone’s younger son, Michael.
This book is about friendship and enmity, love and hatred, the Sicilian law of omertà and an endless vendetta—problems that have always attracted Mario Puzo’s attention, the great connoisseur of human psychology, and especially of the psychology of people who have crossed the line of the law.