Malavita by Tonino Benacquista

Malavita by Tonino Benacquista

Imagine The Sopranos transplanted to the French countryside.

This thrillingly comic, internationally bestselling Mafia farce is the inspiration for the major motion picture The Family starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Tommy Lee Jones, and produced by Martin Scorsese.

The Blakes are newcomers to a small town in Normandy. Fred is a historian researching the Allied landings, Maggie enjoys charity work, and their kids are looking forward to meeting other teenagers at the local lyc e. Or so it seems.

In fact, Fred is really Giovanni Manzoni, an ex-goodfella turned stool pigeon who's been relocated from New Jersey to France by the FBI's witness protection program. He's got a two-million-dollar bounty on his head, but he and his family can't help attracting attention (imagine the Sopranos in Normandy). And when imprisoned mobster Don Mimino gets wind of their location, it's Mafia mayhem la Josh Bazell's Beat the Reaper, or like The Godfather as if written by Carl Hiaasen. Because while you can take the man out of the Mafia, you can't take the Mafia out of the man.

Tonino Benacquista, born in France in 1961 of Italian immigrants, is an acclaimed and popular author of fiction, film scripts, and graphic novels. He is the author of four works of crime fiction published by Bitter Lemon Press in the US and UK. Benacquista won a Cesar (French Oscar) in 2006 for the script of Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped.

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ISBN 13	9782070319398
ISBN 10	2070319393
Title	Malavita
Author	Tonino Benacquista
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Gallimard
Year published	2005-11-23
Number of pages	373
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