il-ktieb tal-maħbubin midruba

the book of maimed lovers

Il-Ktieb tal-Maħbubin Midruba was published in 1999. A span of ten years elapsed from Mifsud's first collection of stories, and here the focus lies mainly on his generation, dubbed by Douglas Coupland as Generation X.

Readers come across the stories of a Pet Shop Boys teenage fan writes to a psychologist, venting her suicidal thoughts after her teenage boyfriend left her for another girl; a university professor specialising in the Philosophy of Death delivers his career's most important lecture to a number of chairs
in an empty classroom; a closed homosexual political candidate chats on IRC with his cyber lover; during an international conference on the future of Marxism after the fall of the Wall a Marxist poet confesses for the very first time he had had a love affair with a teenage admirer of his ...

Portraying himself as a sociologist who writes fiction rather than a short story writer, Mifsud's maimed lovers hail from different walks of life.

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