A spring with various hues

Alfred Massa: Rebbiegħa kollha lwien: a novel; Horizons publication, 243 pp.; 2019.

Maltese novels have always been very popular with the average Maltese reader and, thankfully, their popularity is apparently very much on the increase.
In a way, this is a huge advantage for the language, for the authors and for reading itself, since it is a fact that books have lost much of  their old charm and attraction thanks to the numerous alienations and distractions being offered very temptingly by an ever-increasing sophisticated technology.
Alfred Massa has been writing novels for many years now, and all of them have been very-well- received by local readers. All of them were the product of experiences that Massa,  an author, as well as a poet, went through, invariably extremely sensitive to what went on around him, and then put pen to paper.
Massa’s novels have always been unique in  style and presentation. He has always been very keen to present novels that are realistic, factual, down to earth, with a moral that further adds to the value of the story, and never lacking drama and colour in the various situations he creates so effectively for the reader to enjoy.
Rebbiegħa Kollha...