| Description |
282 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"Tiger Bay, Cardiff, 1948. Frank Gauci steps off the Callisto into the coldest winter ever, clutching a cardboard suitcase. 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. Stick or Twist. It's Frankie's call. But luck becomes a stranger to Frankie. With a mass of debts, five daughters, and another child on the way, he turns to the card table one last time. He gambles, and he prays: this time, it has to be a boy." "It's a boy! cries Salvatore. 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 |
| Notes |
"Shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize" -- cover |
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Man Booker Prize, 2000, shortlist |
| Subject |
Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.
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Maltese -- Wales -- Fiction.
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Gamblers -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
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Maltese -- Wales -- Cardiff -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Maltese fiction -- Wales.
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Gamblers -- Fiction.
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Girls -- Fiction.
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Poor families -- Fiction.
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Cardiff (Wales) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Cardiff (Wales) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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| LC no. |
2002405718 |
| ISBN |
0330390759 |
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0330486500 paperback |
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0330480413 |
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