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Nicholas Rinaldi teaches at Fairfield University, in Connecticut, where he lives with his wife, Jackie. His work includes two novels, Bridge Fall Down and The Jukebox Queen of Malta, and three collections of poetry- The Resurrection of the Snails, The Luftwaffe in Chaos and We Have Lost Our Fathers.
Set in Malta during World War II, this is the story of two young people: New Yorker Rocco Raven, a tyro radioman sending coded messages; and Maltese Melita, who repairs and delivers the jukeboxes devised by her ingenious cousin Zammit from old car and gramaphone parts. In the welter of air-raids, bomb-damage, and the threat of starvation, they fall in love. Rinaldi captures, uncannily, the soul and spirit of Malta itself and its characterful people providing a most convincing book about World War II. (Kirkus UK)
