Three Little Pigs

A Story

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Pub Date Feb 29 2016 | Archive Date Mar 20 2016

Description

A genre-bending intellectual novel, at once a folk tale-like adventure story, a moral fable, and a gripping mafia thriller

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 already pretty tough. But what he doesn’t know is that the victim’s father, a Mafia boss, will settle a curse, a ‘maledizione’, on Frank’s family: that the shoemaker’s three sons will in turn each die in their forty-second year.

Following the varying fortunes of the shoemaker’s 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.

Apostolos Doxiadis is a writer whose best-selling novel, Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture, brought mathematics into fiction. Logicomix, a graphic novel of the epic quest for certainty in science and logic, was published in 2009 and immediately became an international success. His books have been translated into over thirty languages.

Please note this title is not available to readers in North America.

A genre-bending intellectual novel, at once a folk tale-like adventure story, a moral fable, and a gripping mafia thriller

Ben Frank has blood on his hands. He knows that he has killed a man in a...


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