Alfred Sant, il-vizjoni ghall-bidla is the latest publication by SKS to reach the bookshop shelves this week.

Written by novelist Frans Sammut, it is an intimate portrait of a high-brow intellectual writer who turns into a politician and becomes the leader of a major political party with an agenda for change.

The book covers the periods when Alfred Sant made his precocious mark on contemporary literature with novels of adolescence and Min hu Evelyn Costa? which won the Broadcasting Authority TV drama award when Dr Sant was still practically a teenager.

Educated in the best universities in France and the US (the Institut International d’Administration Publique and Harvard respectively) Sant acquired a unique cultural wherewithal which strengthened his world view and helped sharpen his strongly held philosophy. Returning to Malta still a very young man, he sought to translate theory into practice by joining the Malta Labour Party, occupying first the post of chairman of the party’s Information Department, then president of the MLP and subsequently becoming party leader.

The book is a good read as well a source of background information especially sought during election times. It is illustrated with photographs depicting Alfred Sant in his personal and public life, which are being published for the first time in this book. Alfred Sant: Il-Vizjoni ghall-Bidla is selling at Malta’s leading booksellers and will be on sale next Sunday in Mosta during the MLP’s public manifestation.