[1] His works are remarkable for simplicity and lyricism of the prose, humor, and melancholy coupled with optimism.

He died in Tbilisi and was buried in the city, at the Mziuri Park, which he founded in 1982 for the capital's children.

At the center of the novel is a young orphan, Zurikela, his grandmother, and two sharp-tongued but wise and generous elderly neighbors who help watch over the boy.

In Dumbadze's 1967 novel The Sunny Night the hero struggled to find a way to re-establish a connection with his mother, who just returned from twelve years of exile.

In a further complication, the hero must decide whether or not to save the life of the villain who caused his family's ruin.

Masculine friendships, the tragedy of losing a comrade, and the pain of unrequited love are all addressed in a lyric manner typical of Dumbadze.

In this work, a gravely ill hospital patient faced the concept of the struggle between good and evil.

In Kukaracha, one of Dumbadze's last short novels, a policeman takes pity on a criminal, who then shoots and kills the police officer.