An old fashioned book with a lot of repeating, it is about living in Macedonia ( 1833) und the Turkish
Islamic rule, but not with much cruelty like in "Under the yoke" by Ivan Vazov, or even a description
from the massacre in 1875 in Batak whereby 5,000 Christians were slaughtered mostly with the yatagan
(the Turkish bentsword), the people who fled in the church were shot through the windows; when they
had collected the bulk of the dead bodies it reached a pile from men's height). Of course, the main
figure is alive from the beginning to the end, but around him was abortion, assassin and bribery)