The struggle between good and evil

Alfred Massa: L-Istar Tal-ImgħoddiHorizons, 2018.
Alfred Massa’s name is now very familiar with all of those who love the traditional Maltese novel. Massa himself has dedicated many years of his life contributing to this genre of literature, as an editor of literary pages, literary societies, as well as with his very frequent participation in radio programmes on the same lines. He was also President and now Honorary President of the Għaqda Poeti Maltin. He has to his credit several poetry anthologies as well as a numerous amount of excellent novels in Maltese.

L-Istar tal-Imgħoddi saw the light in 1977, and was published by Klabb Kotba Maltin, 90 pages dedicated to All the victims of foreign dominance. And the year 2018 saw the second edition of the work, just on the 50th anniversary since the Soviet Union and the Members of the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia, which was between Tuesday and Wednesday, August 20 and 21, 1968.
This version, edited and revised, includes also the Foreword by Prof Ġ. Galea, written way back in 1975. With a larger type, the pages now run into 160, and the same number of chapters (11 in all) and, at the end of the book one can find various comments...