In the name of the Father

In the name of the Father (and of the Son)

A crippled World War II veteran arrives with his youngest son at his mother's grave. The son suddenly notices a tear rolling down his father's cheek and his world is turned upside down. Suddenly he realizes that even soldiers are not forged of steel - that they too cry. In the Name of the Father (and Son) is a graceful and harmonious prose work with occasional flashes of poetry, interspersed with references to the author's father's wartime diary. Against the background of his son's reflection on masculinity, the narrator tries to reveal what is truth and what is myth. In the Name of the Father (and the Son) is an extraordinary work, the first of its kind in Maltese literature. It moves between biography and memoir, diary and essay. The book blurs the line between poetry and prose, between confession and probe into family psychology, between femininity and masculinity.