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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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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Goce Smilevski

translated by Christina E. Kramer

Tpb 262 pages  © 2012

Price:  $16 CAD     USD$13

Goce Similevski,, a winner of the European Union Prize for Literature  in 2010 for this novel.

Set in Vienna in 1938 about the time when Austrian Jews started to learn their fate under Hitler, and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis was practicing.  Based on these facts, this searing novel gives a haunting voice to his youngest sister, Adolfina – “the sweetest and best of my sisters” – a gifted sensitive woman who was spurned by her mother, and never married.  She was witness to her brother’s genius and to the cultural and artistic splendor of Vienna in the early 20^th Century.

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By:  Luan Starova (translated by Christina E. Kramer)

© 2012

Tpb:  154 pages

Price:  $24 CAD/USD

The novel is set in the late 1940’s in Skopje, Yugoslavia.  This was a critical time leading to Tito’s break with Stalin.  Pushed to leave mountain villages to become the new proletariat in urban factories, a flood of peasants crowd into Skopje—and with them—their goats.  Suffering from hunger, Skopje’s citizens welcome the newcomers.  But municipal leaders are faced with a dilemma when the central government issues an order calling for the slaughter of the country’s goat population.  With food scarce, will the population hide the animals, or comply?

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