Gangster | Lorenzo Carcaterra | Kharidobechobooks

love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo carcaterra's new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption.
born in the midst of tragedy and violence and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family-thee criminals who preside over early 20th century new York. In his bloody rise from soldier to mob boss, he encounters ever more barbaric betrayals-inn friendship, in his brutal business, in love-yett simultaneously comes to understand the meaning of loyalty, the virtue of relationships, and gains a perspective on the Lonely, if powerful, life he has chosen. ≪ br/> as the years pass, as enemies are made and defeated, as Wars are fought and won, the old don meets an abandoned boy who needs a parent as much as protection. By taking Gabe under his wing and teaching him everything he knows, Angelo vestieri will learn, in the winter of his life, which is greater: his love for the boy he cherishes, or his need to be a gangster and to live by the savage rules he helped create. ≪ br/> a sweeping panoramic with riveting characters, a unique understanding of the underworld philosophy, and a relentless pace, gangster travels through the time of godfathers and goodfellas to our own world of suburban Sopranos. But this is more than just an authentic chronicle of crime. Setting a new standard for this acclaimed author, gangster is a compassionate portrait of one man's fight against his fate-andd an unforgettable epic of a family, a city, a century.