The best of the rest include “Octubre,” about a peruvian pawnbroker who unwillingly finds himself the custodian of an infant daughter and a romantic foil for her nurse.
That reluctance by banks to lend has helped earn the UK's biggest pawnbroker a 47 per centrise in profits.
After all, to borrow from a pawnbroker, you must first own an object of value.
"There's the black suit," the pawnbroker, who knew his every asset, had answered. "you needn't tell me you've gone and pledged it with that Jew, Lipka."
A pawnbroker believed to be the first one in the City of London for the best part of a century has opened, in the shadow of the financial crisis.
I stood on tiptoe, face upward and back straightened, to hand the cloth-wrapped bundle onto the counter. How strange the pawnbroker should have put up a counter so forbiddingly high.
