You Know The Sun Bothers Me
Ryan Falzon author Joe Gatt translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Foundry Editions
Publishing:9th Jun '26
£13.99
This title is due to be published on 9th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Love, lust, adulthood and an ancient Fiat in one long hot Maltese summer.
School’s out for summer, and for our unnamed narrator, that means three months away from his physics high school students to tinker with his ancient Fiat 131 and fret about his all-consuming obsession: Sarah, a tempestuous artist he met online. They sleep together, they text obsessively, but as July’s barbecues and boat trips segue into August’s festi, their intimate moments always reset into platonic disappointment, and she increasingly ghosts him in favour of an ever-changing group of new besties. A sensation on its home island, this book gives poignant voice to a regular guy in his early thirties, trying to get a grip on love, life and growing up, and it paints a high-octane portrait of what it means to live in the hedonistic, overcrowded, workaholic, claustrophobic, contradictory mind-blast that is Malta.
“A powerfully idiomatic, warts-and-all vision of contemporary Malta, especially that which millennials experience.”
-- ALEX VELLA GERA“The only novel an author has to writ before they can retire for the rest of their lives. It captures the spirit of the times.”
-- Mark Vella“Falzon’s novel captures the millennial and Gen Z experience against the backdrop of a scorching Maltese summer. Vintage cars, excessive drinking and moral ambiguity frame the story.”
-- The Times Of Malta“From the very first page, it puts you in the passenger seat and drives you at breakneck speed through every street, bypass and flyover on the island as it is today.’
-- Lorranne V- Winner of National Book Prize for Best emerging Author 2024 (Malta)
- Winner of English PEN 2025 (UK)
- Short-listed for National Book Prize 2023 (Malta)
ISBN: 9781917544085
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