Emigration

Between the honey-coloured bastions of Valletta and the salt-crusted fishing boats of Marsaxlokk, Malta’s readers have always turned to books as portable shelters from the midsummer glare or the January gale. Two recent releases—Michael Shurtleff’s evergreen Audition and Danish-American author Kirsten Klitgaard’s quietly devastating The Land in Winter—have slipped onto bedside tables across the islands…