The Jukebox Queen of Malta is an exquisite and enchanting novel, an account of love and war set on an island perilously balanced between what is real and what is not, with characters who test -- and testify to -- the resiliency of the human spirit. Music and bombs, romance and war, the jukebox and the gun exist in arresting counterpoint in this 5/5(1). · THE JUKEBOX QUEEN OF MALTA. By Nicholas Rinaldi. pages. Simon Schuster. $ t must have been a daunting challenge for the talented Nicholas Rinaldi to set his new novel, "The Jukebox Queen. Melita Azzard is a forthright Maltese girl who delivers and services jukeboxes. Her resourceful cousin Zammit collects the makings of these jukeboxes from the rubble of bombed out buildings in Mslta and transforms them into objects of beauty and artistry. 4/5(29).
Nicholas Rinaldi 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 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. 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 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. Nicholas Rinaldi. · Rating details · ratings · 37 reviews. 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 and Rocco Raven, an intrepid auto mechanic turned corporal from Brooklyn, has arrived in Malta, a.
Then again, in a universe without Catch, it's doubtful that The Jukebox Queen of Malta could even have been written. The influences of Joseph Heller's classic Catch and Louis de Bernieres' recent Corelli's Mandolin are rather too blatantly present in this otherwise well-constructed and quite likable second novel by poet and author Rinaldi. The Jukebox Queen of Malta is an exquisite and enchanting novel, an account of love and war set on an island perilously balanced between what is real and what is not, with characters who test -- and testify to -- the resiliency of the human spirit. But Nicholas Rinaldi brings it front and center in his remarkable second novel, The Jukebox Queen of Malta, and if his descriptions of the place leave you cold, his characters won't. Set during the early years of World War II, the story begins with the arrival of American soldier Rocco Raven, late of Brooklyn, during an air raid.
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