Michał Potocki looks beyond Malta's tourist image towards its history and political contradictions.

The contrast between a destination and a lived society offers the book its point of entry. Choose this if you want a place-based report that asks what the attractive surface leaves out. Its value is in putting contemporary tensions beside the familiar scenery rather than treating travel as a brief escape from politics.

WHO IS IT FOR?

For readers interested in reported lives, ideas and the forces shaping contemporary experience.