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TREZZA AZZOPARDI is the critically acclaimed author of The Hiding Place, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and longlisted for the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and Remember Me, which was shortlisted for the Welsh Book of the Year. Born in Cardiff, Wales, she is a graduate of the Creative Writing School at the University of East Anglia. She lives in Norfolk, England.
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Frank McCourt and Mary Karr may have written definitive accounts of grim childhoods, but British first novelist Azzopardi can stand on her own as a writer of remarkable sensibility and literary prowess. A seedy dockside community in 1960s Wales is the apt setting for this memoir-like narrative. Physical and emotional abuse haunts every detail in Azzopardi's account of a poor Maltese immigrant family's misery. Dolores, the youngest of the six Gauci daughters, narrates the story of her father Frankie's arrival in Tiger Bay, Wales, his marriage to young waitress Mary Jessop, the birth of their children and the family's eventual disintegration as a result of Frankie's gambling and jealousy. In Part One, Dolores's five-year-old narration is emotionless as she relates the awful events that shape their lives. Hers is the perfect voice to unearth the family's confusing and shady secrets; because the child doesn't quite understand the emotional impact of situations, she questions and observes with detachment. On the day Dolores is born, Frankie gambles away their house and caf . When she is just a month old, Dolores loses her left hand in a fire. Frankie's jealousy and gambling debts lead him to sell one of his daughters, Marina, to gangster Joe Medora, the man he believes is her father. Azzopardi chills the blood with gruesome details as Frankie skins Dolores's pet rabbit for older sister Celesta's wedding dinner. Eventually, Frankie abandons the family to join Medora, and Mary, losing her grip on reality, also loses the remaining children to public care. Dolores's stoic perspective continues into adulthood, as, in Part Two, the sisters return to Tiger Bay for Mary's funeral. Although the narrative line can confuse as the story shifts from present to past, readers will be riveted by this brilliant psychological prose poem of a family united only in helplessness and despair, in a poverty-stricken corner of the world rarely evoked in fiction. (Jan.)
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0330487795
- ISBN 13 9780330487795
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
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Condition: Muy bueno. : The Hiding Place es una conmovedora novela de Trezza Azzopardi que narra la historia de una familia inmigrante en Cardiff. Narrada por Dolores, la menor de seis hijas, la novela explora temas de pobreza, familia y supervivencia en un entorno implacable. Con una prosa lírica y personajes inolvidables, Azzopardi crea un retrato vívido de una comunidad al borde del abismo, donde los lazos familiares se ven puestos a prueba por las dificultades y los secretos del pasado. EAN: 9780330487795 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Hiding Place Autor: Trezza Azzopardi Editorial: Picador Idioma: en Páginas: 284 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-08-21-6be71d8f
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