Title: The iron candlestick [by] Dimiter Talev
Description: 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)
Places: Prespa -  It  is  part  1  of a  serie  The  bells  of  Prespa  is  part  2  and  Ilinden  -  part  3
Time periods: Owing  to  someone;  1833  but  it  is  not  clear  in  the  text;  I  am  tranlating  it  in  Dutch (Andre  Baldersen)