stejjer ta' nies koroh

stories of ugly people

Immanuel Mifsud's first publication was a collection of 20 early short stories titled Stejjer ta' Nies Koroh (Stories of Ugly People).

This collection tells the stories of a number of marginalised characters: junkies, homeless, forgotten heroes, people looking for lost families, others who are grossly disillusioned with life. In most cases the stories are set against a background of crowded, busy, metropolitan cities, the narrator faintly empathising with the drop outs.

Written in the late eighties, a time when Mifsud was beginning his journeys outside his tiny island suffocated with corrupt party politics, this collection
is both a personal diary of the very first trips into the wilderness of the metropolitan cities he visits (mainly London) and the coming to terms with the Maltese reality of the 1980s, characterised by a rigid two-party political system which left no space for individual freedom.

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