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A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice
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A journalist's account of the 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 the mother to three sons, who with their father have carried on the quest for justice and transparency after her death. Narrated by the youngest of them, the journalist Paul Caruana Galizia.
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"The descriptive narrative highlights not only a son's love for his mother but also the positive and negative effects of determination and resistance of those in the story."
"Paul's story, told in a clear and vivid narrative, has all the elements of a political thriller."
"She was clearly not the easiest of women to live with."
"Given the circumstances, that is entirely understandable."
"The result is an instant classic of political true crime that will make readers' blood boil."
"If Daphne had flaws as a journalist — some eyebrows might reasonably be raised by her polemical writing style — her son is not their chronicler."
"A memorable book of a courageous crusade for justice."
"Daphne's work affected her family."
"His fine, natural, relaxed style shows Daphne as a living woman – delightful, quirky, far from perfect, increasingly affected by the things she wrote about and the danger she faced, and utterly magnificent ..."
"Galizia combines memoir, true crime, and history as he details Malta's complicated past for a riveting and unnerving story that remains fully unresolved."
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