Title
The Jukebox Queen of Malta
Files
Document Type
Book
Description/Summary
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. – Publisher description.
ISBN
9780684867427
Publication Date
1999
Publication Information
Rinaldi, Nicholas. (1999). The jukebox queen of Malta. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1999.
Recommended Citation
Rinaldi, Nicholas, "The Jukebox Queen of Malta" (1999). English Faculty Book Gallery. 51.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-books/51
Comments
Copyright Simon & Schuster: 1999