A Death in Malta
An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice
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A journalist’s spellbinding account of the shocking murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that has reverberated far beyond their tiny homeland
An archipelago off the southern coast of Italy, Malta is a picturesque gem eroded by a climate of corruption, polarization, inequality, and a virtual absence of civic spirit. In this unpromising soil, a fearless journalist took root. Daphne Caruana Galizia fashioned herself into the country’s lonely voice of conscience, her muckraking and editorializing sending shock waves that threatened to topple those in power and made her at once the island’s best-known figure and its most reviled. In 2017, a campaign of intimidation against her culminated in a car bombing that took her life.
Daphne was also he devoted and inspiring mother to three sons, who with their father have carried on the quest for justice and transparency after her death. Spellbindingly narrated by the youngest of them, the award-winning journalist Paul Caruana Galizia, A Death in Malta is at once a study in heroism and the powerful story of a family’s crusade for accountability in a society built on lies, with reverberations far beyond their homeland.
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Release date
November 7, 2023 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593789018
- File size: 284001 KB
- Duration: 09:51:40
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Starred review from September 11, 2023
Journalist Galizia (The Economy of Modern Malta) combines the personal and the political in this blistering account of his mother’s crusade against government corruption, her subsequent murder, and his family’s efforts to find justice. Daphne Caruana Galizia (1964–2017) became Malta’s first female newspaper columnist in the 1990s and wrote extensively on illegal activity by government officials. Daphne’s rigorous investigations—which stood in contrast to Malta’s otherwise passive media ecosystem—led Politico to dub her a “a one-woman WikiLeaks” and provoked regular threats to her and her family’s lives, including multiple attempts to set their home on fire. On October 16, 2017, a bomb detonated in the car Daphne was driving, killing her instantly. The assassination caused an international uproar; while those involved in planting and detonating the device were apprehended, questions about who hired them remain. Galizia recounts his mother’s extraordinary career without tipping into hagiography, and catalogs the infuriating obstacles he and his family have faced as they’ve sought answers about her death. The result is an instant classic of political true crime that will make readers’ blood boil. Agent: Patrick Walsh, PEW Literary.
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