This is the 14th book by this prolific author (including three novels for young people, two for adults, seven collections of short stories, two collections of poems) and this one adds to the collection of short stories series.
As in some of the earlier collections of short stories, this one derives some of its setting from the author's daily work as an analyst at the government lab. This is reflected in the penultimate story in the book, Nemus u fniek ... u brimb, a hilarious one which begins at a funeral and details the hardship of moving from San Gwann to Fgura.
Many of the stories reflect decaying families and relationships, children pulled to and fro between separated parents, a son confronting a wayward parent and also stories where parents suffer because of children with mental problems.
None of the people written about in this book are what we would call normal. Yet in them as a whole we see a cross-section of Maltese society in the first two decades of this century. It's a collection of sick members of our sick society.
Seen in this perspective, we're all doomed. Every one of us...