Nicholas M. Rinaldi

The Jukebox Queen of Malta

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Produktbeschreibung

The Jukebox Queen of Malta is an exquisite and enchanting novel of love and war set on an island perilously balanced between what is real and what is not. It's 1942 and Rocco Raven, an intrepid auto mechanic turned corporal from Brooklyn, has arrived in Malta, a Mediterranean island of Neolithic caves, Copper Age temples, and fortresses. The island is under siege, full of smoke and rubble, caught in the magnesium glare of German and Italian bombs. But nothing is as it seems on Malta. Rocco's living quarters are a brothel; his commanding officer has a genius for turning the war's misfortunes into personal profit; and the Maltese people, astonishingly, testify to the resiliency of the human spirit. When Rocco meets the beautiful and ethereal Melita, who delivers the jukeboxes her cousin builds out of shattered debris, they are drawn to each other by an immediate passion. And, it is their full-blown affair that at once liberates and imprisons Rocco on the island. In this mesmerizing novel, music and bombs, war and romance, the jukebox and the gun exist in arresting counterpoint in a story that is a profound and deeply moving exploration of the redemptive powers of love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780684867427
• ISBN-10: 0684867427
• Artikelnr.: 21627194

Autorenporträt

Nicholas M. Rinaldi teaches literature and creative writing at Fairfield University in Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Part I: Rocco and Melita
April Blitz, 1942
1: Buy Lace -- Save Malta
2: The Bomb
3: A Night on the Gut
4: The Shelter
5: The House on Windmill Street
6: A Jukebox for Zarb Adami
7: Fingerly's Fat Lady
8: The Green Room
9: Miss Sicily Sings for Malta
10: Zammit
11: The Word for Snow
12: The Maltese Falcon
13: The Neolithic Cave
14: Poker at the Point de Vue
15: Walking Through Wall
Part II: Heat, Sun, Dust Over Everything
16: Zammit Discourses on the Intricacies of the Soul
Nardu Camilleri Gets a Haircut
Tony Zebra Goes for the Big Escape
17: The Pigmy Elephan
18: The First Day of the Bombing
19: The Glorious Tenth
20: Nigg
21: The Jukebox Madness of Zarb Adami
22: Prowling Through the Codes
23: The General Georg von Bismarck Memorial Baseball Game
24: The Fall of Tobruk
25: "Love Somebody, Yes I Do --
26: Aida's Wedding
Part III: Music in the Nigh
27: The Rhino Caress Transatlantic Condom Deal
28: The Last Rites of Dominic Mifsud
29: The Peacock and the Peahen
30: Miss Sicily
31: Bean Code, Bean Code
32: Pinpoints of Light Dancing All Around Him
33: Melita Humming
34: Rommel on the Run
35: Nardu Camilleri Speaks of Love
World News Roundup/General Patton in Morocco
Christina's Seething Simmering Malta Conga Line
36: Zed Mir Min
37: The November Convoy
38: Zammit's Mother-of-God Madonna Jukebox
Epilouge: 1945
Malta is most particularly a country where history has had to be reinvented
continuously....Each generation makes its spasmodic attacks on the
subterranean mysteries, and each emerges with its own story; but with each
discovery the mysteries take on another aspect and require the story to be
retold.
-- Nigel Dennis, An Essay on Malta
"Malta of gold, Malta of silver, Malta of precious metal,
We shall never take you!
No, not even if you were as soft as a gourd,
Not even if you were only protected by an onion skin!"
And from her ramparts a voice replied:
"I am she who has decimated the galleys of the Turk
And all the warriors of Constantinople and Galata!"
-- Anonymous, Sixteenth Century
Under repeated fire from the skies, Malta stood alone...in the center of
the sea, one tiny bright flame in the darkness, a beacon of hope for the
clearer days which have come.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt