Bambino, Frankie! And my father, who is Frankie Bambina to his friends, poor unlucky Frank to have so many daughters, twists in reckless joy." "And so begins the chain of events which will haunt his family for forty years."-BOOK JACKET. The Hiding Place Trezza Azzopardi Picador, 14.99, 288pp Buy it at BOL The book-trade bush telegraph has been tapping out advance information on Trezza Azzopardi since the start of the. He gambles, and he prays: this time, it has to be a boy." "It's a boy! cries Salvatore. With a mass of debts, five daughters, and another child on the way, he turns to the card table one last time. It's all he has, until he finds a ruby ring, Joe Medora, and Mary." "When Frankie and his best friend Salvatore open the doors of the Moonlight Cafe, life seems good: downstairs there is sweet music, hot food, beautiful girls and upstairs, there is gambling. Frank Gauci steps off the Callisto into the coldest winter ever, clutching a cardboard suitcase. Shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize, it portrays the life of a child condemned forever to bear the mark of a disintegrating family. The hiding place / Trezza Azzopardi Book Bib ID The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi is a deeply moving and intensely lyrical novel about love and betrayal. The Hiding Place is a novel of childhood and family feuding, set in the Maltese community of Cardiffs Tiger Bay.
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