Category: Fiction

Petre M. Andreevski,

Translated by Will Firth & Mirjana Simjanovska

287 pgs Tpb

Price: C$29  US$25

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Pirey, by Macedonian poet, novelist and playwright, Petre M. Andreevski, is one of the most celebrated novels of modern Macedonian literature.  Set during the Balkan Wars, WWI and the years soon after, the story follows the major political shifts in the Balkans at the end of the Ottoman Empire, and their catastrophic impact on a Macedonian village and a married couple, Ion and Velika.

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Stale Popov

Translated by Michael Seraphinoff

200 pages Tpb

ISBN 0 9757332 1 4 

Price:  CAD$15   US$11 

The author Stale Popov was born in a small, isolated mountain village of Macedonia in the final, turbulent decades of the Turkish Empire. From this background he is able to write a story for us in a voice of the traditional village storyteller that takes us on a journey into the heart and soul of the medieval Turkish Empire in Europe.
Popov’s story of the brave peasant girl Andja is based on an old legend and a documented peasant rebellion against Turkish rule in the year 1565 in the Mariovo region of Macedonia. Popov offers us a window into a world and a way of life that is foreign to us today. And yet, The Legend of Kalesh Andja’s story of a struggle for freedom and justice, from far away and long ago, can still move readers, both young and old.

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Tashko Georgievski

(translated by Elizabeth Kolupacev Stewart)
113 pages ©1994

Tpb        ISBN 0 9586789 01

Price:  CAD $18   US$14

Black Seed is one of the great political and humanistic novels of contemporary Macedonian literature. It is one of the few books that examine life in the Greek prison camps during the Greek Civil War, providing a rare insight into a period when the State sponsored persecution of political dissidents and ethnic minorities, particularly Macedonians, was at its most intense.
Written in a direct and succinct style, Black Seed is a story of courage, compassion and truth which is universal in meaning. It was made into a successful film, and has been translated into a number of European languages.
Tashko Georgievski is one of Macedonia’s leading contemporary authors. The book concludes with an article on Georgievski by Mateja Matevski, who discusses the theme of “returning”, common in Georgievski’s books.

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by Zhivko Chingo

Translated by Elizabeth Kolupacev Stewart

© 2004

120 pages (four colour celloglazed cover)  Tpb

ISBN 0 9586789 6 0

Price:  $18 CAD      US$14

Set in Macedonia immediately after World War 2, The Big Water tells the story of a group of children orphaned by the war and their life in an orphanage. Full of characters and incidents, the book presents a child’s view of life that is both humorous and bleak and, by its end, very moving.  This was also made into an award winning film called The Great Water.

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Marko Cepenkov  

translated by Fay Thomev

Tpb:  271 pgs     66 folktales

Price:  $29 CAD           USD $25

Marko Cepenkov (1829 – 1920) dedicated his whole life to collecting and preserving for posterity, the enormous wealth of Macedonian folk literature.  The literature embodies the deepest layers of the Macedonian collective consciousness, wisdom and philosophy of the life of an area at the crossroads of cultures, civilizations, peoples and languages.  Cepenkov collected in his lifetime more than 800 tales, 710 songs, 5032 folk proverbs, etc.  His collection spanned games, pledges, curses, blessings, folk traditions, customs, descriptions of crafts and musical instruments, personal names and surnames.

This is the first extensive presentation of Cepenkov’s work in English, published by Macquarrie University in Australia.

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