Prikazna za ocite (A story of the eyes)
Publisher: Misla, Skopje
Published: 1987   250 pages  in Macedonian
Place of publication: Skopje
Number of pages: 250
Description: Short stories
Table of contents: title: A collection of short stories, some published in earlier editions. The story of the eyes - an elderly painter on the shores of Lake Ohrid, excited by the beauty around him, yet frustrated, waiting for inspiration to capture the true magic of the lake's blue hues ... Every morning, at the same time, a girl comes to the nearby spring, blue-eyed and graceful, offering him her jug of cold water on her return. In her eyes the painter sees the colours he would like to capture. The colours of the lake. But how can you transfer onto canvas the eyes of a whole nation? After the battle of Belasica Samuilo's army was defeated, all his warriors blinded. At night the fairies from the Macedonian mountains collected the warriors' eyes from the battlefield. The lake nymphs built a shiny, sparkling castle at the bottom of the lake. When it was completed the fairies brought the eyes in pearl-encrusted boxes and threw them in the lake. The castle shone with sudden sparkling azure blueness, the colour of living eyes ... The painter starts to paint with sure, bold strokes. From his canvas the beautiful blue eyes of the maiden gaze at him, magic, absorbing the wondrous hues of surrounding waters ....