Vespers

Winner of the National Book Prize

Translated into English by Clare Vassallo

Trevor Żahra, Malta’s most beloved author, returns with a collection of stories in which reality blends with dreams, smiles merge with pain, normality is intertwined with the bizarre, and the past walks hand in hand with the present. And his characters chant their evening prayers together, their Vespers, before the night blows out the weak flame of the sun and darkness descends.