"... 80 persen dari 17 cerpen yang dipilih di sini hampir semua melukiskan kondisi fisis dan psikis dari kalangan bawah atau marginal yang serba kalang-kabut." - Y.B. Mangunwijaya
These stories, the, like all godd stories, are possessed of universal interest. And the reason for this is that everyone of them treats of a subject familiar and understandable, whether at first or second hand, through direct or indirect experience or through empathic projection, to any reader posessed of general interests and some mature experience of life