The Hiding Place - Softcover

Azzopardi, Trezza

 
9780330480413: The Hiding Place
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0330480413 ISBN 13: 9780330480413
Verlag: Picador, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2000 'Fans of Kate Atkinson and Andrea Ashworth will love this. Read it and weep.' Mirror This brilliant first novel is set in the Maltese community of Tiger Bay in Cardiff where the author grew up. Dolores, the narrator tells the story of her childhood - her father, Frankie, a compulsive gambler who, due to a misunderstanding at the moment of her birth (he is convinced that his wife will finally give birth to a boy after a multitude of daughters) loses everything to his rival Joe Medora, head of the Maltese Mafia. Frankie's gambling leads to the fire which disfigures Dolores. There is a terrifyingly vivid scene as Dolores remembers watching her hand being burnt in the fire that destroys their home and the moment when Joe claims one of Frankie's daughters as his own. The author evokes the world of Dolores and her family with brilliant power and sensitivity. The novel flits between past and present as Dolores reflects on her childhood and the lives that her father created for himself and his children.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Trezza Azzopardi was born in Cardiff and lives in Norwich. She is the author of The Song House, Remember Me, and The Hiding Place, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000.

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0330480413
ISBN 13 
9780330480413
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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