by Trezza Azzopardi · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330480413
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«The Hiding Place» is the contemporary fiction novel by Trezza Azzopardi, published by Picador in 2001 in paperback (250 pages, in English).
Dolores recalls her childhood in the Maltese community of Tiger Bay, Cardiff, alongside her father Frankie, a compulsive gambler who loses everything to Joe Medora, head of the Maltese mafia. The novel alternates past and present to reconstruct family life, the weight of addiction, and the scars it leaves on his daughters.
Debut novel by Trezza Azzopardi, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2000 and the Orange Prize in 2001, and winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
For readers of literary fiction and family dramas, with a narrative about memory, identity, and the Maltese community in Wales.
Trezza Azzopardi is a Welsh writer who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won several other literary prizes.
