Bojana
Subtitle: raskazi
By: Ivan Točko.
Series: Sovremeni makedonski pisateli
Publisher: "Kočo Racin"
Published: 1953
Place of publication: [Skopje] Macedonia
Language: mac
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 178
Table of contents: title: "Bojana" is the first published collection of Ivan Tocko's short stories. Bojana is a young Macedonian woman, married only for 2 months, whose husband Krste leaves for America as a migrant worker. Macedonia has a long tradition of people migrating to find work, leaving behind families - parents, young wives, children. Aftrer 22 years of work in America Krste returns home with a pile of gold coins, tired and worn out, Bojana too is middle-aged, equally worn out and sad, her little boy died, youth has gone, there are no traces left of the young couple from the beginning of the tale, both of them are shadows of their young selves. She curses the gold, which cannot bring back lost dreams, youth and happiness.; title: The story "Master tradesman" deals with the dramas on a building site where migrant village workers who come to big cities work, trying to get builder's qualifications, among them 19-year old Vele. Both stories were published in later collections.