Gierku Ma Jmut Qatt

Gierku Ma Jmut Qatt is the new book by Charles Flores published by PEG Publications. It contains fourteen short stories that are "bound to ring a bell in the national psyche". From the Malta Independent:

In their quiet little village in an undisclosed part of Malta, Gierku and his gang of friends live the same life as that of thousands of other fellow Maltese. It is a life based on keeping up with favourite pastimes and coping with the everyday crises and situations that occur in most towns and villages all over the Maltese Islands.

Somewhere, somehow, in this collection of inter-connected short stories written in Maltese the reader is bound to recognise him or herself. You could be the irresponsible hunter or the conscientious one, the village constable or the kind-hearted mother, the wisecracker or the fisherman, the fireworks enthusiast or the teacher, the parish-priest or the mayor.

In Gierku ma jmut qatt, Flores covers many of the favourite subjects of discussion in Maltese society, from the on-going debate about hunting and the environment, to converted farmhouses, fireworks factory explosions, politics and the adoption of Romanian babies...