Tonino Benacquista
Birth date: September 01, 1961
Tonino Benacquista's Books
Recently added on shelves
Tonino Benacquista's readers
Share this Author
I really enjoyed the book, as I am generally a huge fan of Mafia stories, but the end was a bit... well, I would call it queasy.
Okay bear with me for a minute because this gets a little complicated. Malavita was originally released in English as Badfellas, (a homage to the main characters love of the movie Goodfellas,) and is now being re-released under its original French name due to a movie version coming out, which is cal...
While reading this, I couldn't help but visualise the author writing this and dreaming of the day it was made into a paint-by-numbers Hollywood comedy - because that is how Badfellas reads, like a book tie-in for a film that's already been released.That's not to say Badfella's is a bad book by any s...
There's this well-known fact that the recent past is the strangest period in history. I mean, not that long ago it was the present, and then what happened? So, earlier today, I was reading this rather mediocre Benacquista collection on the train and ran into the following story, published as recentl...
It occurred to me that Tonino Benacquista is a bit like a French version of Iain Banks. Great storyteller, brilliant at cooking up tastefully intriguing mixtures of sex and violence with a psychological twist. Often the story is told in an odd order, or with many flashbacks. And they both like to cr...
Log in with Facebook 
