A gripping mafia thriller, at once a suspenseful crime adventure and ingenious fable
Ben Frank has blood on his hands.
He knows that he has killed a man in a bar-room brawl. He knows that as an Italian immigrant in turn-of-the-century New York, life is tough. But what he doesnt know is that the victims father, a Mafia boss, will settle a curse, a maledizione, on Franks family; that the shoemakers three sons will each die in their forty-second year.
Following the varying fortunes of the shoemakers sons Al, Nick and Leo Frank as well as their nemesis, a gangster by the name of Terranova, Three Little Pigs grows into a dazzling meditation on chance, destiny, choice and their consequences.
At once a gripping thriller and an investigation of character and fate, this is a revenge tragedy written by a master at the very peak of his powers. Can the brothers beat the curse?
From Apostolos Doxiadis, author of Logicomix.