The Cassandra Curse

"My son, I put my curse on you. I curse your wife, I curse your marriage and I curse all your descendants, to the last of your race..." In the last days before war engulfed a tiny Mediterranean island, the eldest son of an old Maltese family asked his father to bless his marriage and instead received his curse. At the turn of the new millennium, the last descendent of the family, Kristjana Falzon, returns to her native Malta with her English fiance, determined to explain the destruction of her family to him through the events of that day. Through the converging stories of a working class family from Sliema and the Sant'Angelos, whose ancestors were merchants and noblemen, they witness the experiences of men and women across three generations who endured displacement and poverty, a bitter wartime siege, the hopes and insecurities of the sixties and the emergence of an independent nation state with struggles of its own. Men and women such as Carmelina Buhagiar, a widow whose talent and courage held her family together, Alexandria Sant'Angelo, whose violent upbringing drove her into exile, and an innocent young priest unwittingly caught in the cross currents of social and political unrest... Winner of the National Book Prize of Malta (foreign language fiction category) "All the flesh and blood characters combine to make The Cassandra Curse a nail-biting must-read." The Times Of Malta, 20th May 2006 "A passionate love story, breathlessly racy...an excellent read." The Sunday Times of Malta, 11th June 2006


Genre: Literary Fiction