Verżjoni eBook
Innota li m’intix qed tixtri ktieb stampat. Qed tixtri ktieb elettroniku (ebook) li tista’ taqra fl-app tagħna għall-mowbajl u t-tablet (iOS jew Android). L-istruzzjonijiet biex tniżżel l-app issibhom fl-email ta’ konferma li tirċievi wara li tagħmel l-ordni. Jekk jogħġbok uża l-istess email kemm biex tixtri l-ebook kemm biex tirreġistra għall-app. Finalist tal-Premju Nazzjonali tal-Ktieb Mhux kulħadd jiddeċiedi li jmut. Emma qatlet żewġt irġiel. Dennis Castillo u Tommy Grech. It-tnejn li huma ħadu b’idejn il-Kurunell Muammar Gaddafi meta ġie Malta bejn il-21 u l-24 ta’ Mejju tal-1976. Tommy kien jaħdem il-Palazz ta’ Sant’Anton fejn il-Kurunell kiel is-Sibt u l-Ħadd filgħaxija. Kellu r-ritratt ma’ Gaddafi mdendel fl-intrata tad-dar. Dennis kien spettur u kellu ritratt ma’ Gaddafi fuq l-iskrivanija fl-uffiċċju tiegħu. Qatt ma ddispjaċieha ta’ dak li għamlet. Sakemm darba waħda, tfaċċajt jien quddiem il-bieb tad-dar tagħha. Jien Amanda, it-tifla ta’ Emma. Kieku kellek titlef lil ommok, u meta terġa’ ssibha snin twal wara, issir taf li qatlet, x’tagħmel? Il-verżjoni stampata (print book) tal-ktieb issibha hawn.
“The great strength of the novel is surely in the liveliness of the many dialogues through which Azzopardi reveals again and again the personality, strengths and weaknesses of her characters.”
— Reċensjoni ta’ Castillo minn Paul Xuereb, fis-Sunday Times of Malta: Of detectives and maternal love
“There is a deeper, more intimate idea underlying this novel and that is the idea of the woman who realises, as soon as she gives birth to her child, that she doesn’t want to be a mother, that she doesn’t have the mother gene.
To complicate matters, life intervenes and situations evolve that give her the perfect opportunity to run away from her life and leave her daughter with the father. So yes, this is a novel about the relationship, or non-relationship, between mother and daughter – a daughter who eventually becomes a mother in her own right and starts to build a relationship with her own daughter.”
— Clare Azzopardi, intervistata minn Ramona Depares għas-Sunday Times of Malta
Aqra l-intervista sħiħa hawn: Fact interplaying with fiction
“a post modern murder mystery … Castillo is an excellent, flowing read, that , like a good detective novel grips the reader and yet provides plenty to think about in the process. I am sure that this novel will be one that I’ll be reflecting about for a long time.”
— Reċensjoni ta’ Castillo minn Robert Pisani f’The Bobsphere
