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The Prespa Tetralogy

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The Prespa Tetralogy	comment	Written during The '50s by Bulgarian author Dimitar Talev, the informally named Prespa tetralogy is a Generational Saga telling the story of a Bulgarian family from the fictional town of Prespa in today's Macedonia during the 19th and early 20th century when the region was under Ottoman rule and resistance was forming against it, cluminating in the Ilinden uprising in 1903. The series consists of four novels: The Iron Candlestick, telling the story of the settling of the Glaoushevi family into Prespa (Stoyan, a fugitive from the surrounding villages, marries Sultana, the last heir of a once-wealthy family, and revitalizes her household), ending with the wedding of their younger son, Lazar. The Bells of Prespa continues through the eyes of mostly Lazar Glaoushev and his wife, Nia, illustrating the cultural upheaval in Prespa and the formation of anti-Ottoman resistance. New prominent characters appear, such as the new rebel teacher, Raiko Vardarski, his female colleague, Ivanka Roumenova, and the new bourgeoisie (the Brashnarovi and Babolevi families). Ilinden, named after the historical Ilinden uprising, is centered around it, viewed through the eyes of Lazar and Nia's son, Boris. Your Voices I Hear deals with the fallout of the uprising as seen by Boris Glaoushev and each neighboring country trying to claim Macedonia as the Ottoman empire has been driven away.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_1116591	type	Best Friends-in-Law
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_1116591	comment	Best Friends-in-Law: Lazar Glaoushev intends to marry Bozhana, the sister of his best friend Andrea Benkov. She dies before they even get betrothed.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_12dc4d97	type	Greedy Jew
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_12dc4d97	comment	Amusingly enough, Avram Nemtour, the wealthiest man in town, is a Jew. While he's not cheap when it comes to personal luxuries, he is an arrogant and corrupt chorbadji whose character falls more in line with the wealthy Greedy Jew stereotype.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_1328fd9d	type	Parenting the Husband
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_1328fd9d	comment	Parenting the Husband: The pragmatic, stern Sultana and the naïve, happy-go-lucky Stoyan. He even feels like she reminds him of his mother and sister when she instructs him what to do when he had to "register" at the municipality.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier/Genre Shift: The novels get this treatment in chronological order. Candlestick is mostly a Slice of Life story dealing with the Glaoushevi family and their personal drama. Bells starts incorporating cultural and political revolutionary themes and the advent of a rebel movement. Ilinden is a semi-historical tale of an uprising notorious for its bloody end, and Voices has an even darker tone.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Atze Kutrev used to shelter the Rebel Leader and teacher Raiko Vardarski at his home. He names his son, Raiko, after him, who also grows up to be a teacher and a Rebel Leader. [[cheatingWithTheMilkman Hmmm...]]
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_1badfb3a	comment	The Heart: Andrea Benkov, Lazar's best friend who's sensitive and fiery, doesn't do much, but sticks with them until the end.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: I Hear Your Voices came out in 1966, more than a full decade after the other three novels, written within a year of each other (1952-1954).
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: The first two books have a pair of a middle-class reformist having a rivalry with the wealthiest man in town: at first Kliment Benkov against Avram Nemtour, then after Kliment's death Lazar Glaoushev takes up the mantle against the aging Nemtour as he grows up; After Avram Nemtour's death Lazar again finds the same type of opposition in the face of a younger man, Taki Brashnarov.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_25dffed2	type	Headbutting Heroes
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_25dffed2	comment	Headbutting Heroes: IMRO and the Bulgarian-based Supreme Macedonian Committee. The Committee was launched and operated by Macedonian immigrants in Bulgaria who were closely aligned with the Bulgarian government and worked for Macedonia's unification with Bulgaria, relying primarily on Bulgarian support; on the other hand IMRO, while also founded by local Bulgarians and having broadly the same aims, at this point was primarily relying on achieving liberation on their own and was suspicious of interference by the Bulgarian government whose corruption had alienated Macedonian revolutionaries.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_289ed9a0	type	Town Girls
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_289ed9a0	comment	Town Girls: In their childhood and adolescence, Catherina as the Butch, Nia as the Femme and Bozhana as the Neither. Notably, Catherina has much more in common with these two than with her own sisters, Manda and Nona.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_2c98f475	type	Leonine Contract
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_2c98f475	comment	After the war, when Georgi Babolev builds a mechanized grain mill, he and Taki Brashnarov monopolize grain trade. Babolev is neutral toward that and tries not to suffocate other traders such as Lazar, but Brashnarov does so with zeal and also pushes Leonine Contracts on villagers, selling them inferior flour at high prices.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_31da1e24	comment	Lazar and Nia can't get a break. After he had a feud with her father while his mother rooted for them, it's Nia's turn to enter a cold war with her mother-in-law as she moves in and refuses to be cowed into obedience.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_3862fa01	type	Ludd Was Right
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_3862fa01	comment	Ludd Was Right: When industrially made copper sheets for smithing get introduced, Stoyan Glaoushev is worried about those of his employees who used to produce those manually, even if his son Kocho is overjoyed. Later factory-made copper dishes become available. Kocho emphasizes on the fact that local hand-made dishes are more durable, if crude, but in time the pressure causes him to emigrate. In Bulgaria, he continues his trade manually, producing the same less shiny but more affordable goods for other immigrants to the capital like him. After the war, when Georgi Babolev builds a mechanized grain mill, he and Taki Brashnarov monopolize grain trade. Babolev is neutral toward that and tries not to suffocate other traders such as Lazar, but Brashnarov does so with zeal and also pushes Leonine Contracts on villagers, selling them inferior flour at high prices.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_3a6a7b0a	type	Starving Artist
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_3a6a7b0a	comment	Starving Artist: Rafail "Rafe" Klinche is a woodcutter who gets hired to carve the new church's iconostasis. He's a kind-hearted but extremely messy man and, due to his trade, seemingly unable to settle down, which makes him a poor suitor for Catherina in Sultana's eyes.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_3db71fa8	type	Blithe Spirit
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_3db71fa8	comment	Blithe Spirit: Catherina, Stoyan and Sultana's youngest daughter, is an unusually free-spirited and feisty girl. It gets her killed when she gets pregnant by the resident woodcutter out of wedlock and dies from a forced abortion.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Stoyan Glaoushev. On the run from his Feudal Overlord, he flees to the town of Prespa, never frowning at hunger, cold and even the lack of work, always believing he'll figure it out later. He remains just as jolly even in his later years, to Sultana's irritation.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_4067bd4d	type	Spirited Young Lady
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_4067bd4d	comment	Spirited Young Lady: Ivanka is as much as a feminist as she can be in the 19th century Ottoman Empire. She takes it upon herself to gather girls for her school when parents won't send them by themselves, won't conform to gender norms (although she proves she can do domestic chores really well if she wants to) and otherwise advocates for women to take a more proactive role in society.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_465966a3	type	Drop the Hammer
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_465966a3	comment	Drop the Hammer: Stoyan gets hired easily as a coppersmith assistant because he's very strong and can swing the heaviest hammer used to do crude work. However, he's still a newcomer to the city and masters don't want to teach him the trade. He endures all the mocking from the apprentices and junior masters without making much of it. However, when one kalfa (junior master) breaks his nose as a "prank", Stoyan loses it and wrecks the entire shop, throws the hammer into a wall with enough force to punch a hole, and almost kills the prankster. The whole scene reads like something out of a Thor comic.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_48d87e94	type	Planet of Steves
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_48d87e94	comment	Planet of Steves: Prespa is a Town of Stoyans. This is the reason for Sultana to get to know Stoyan Glaoushev, since she just called him by a random common name to get his attention and hire him to work.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Lazar and Nia can't get a break. After he had a feud with her father while his mother rooted for them, it's Nia's turn to enter a cold war with her mother-in-law as she moves in and refuses to be cowed into obedience. Taki's parents come off this way to Ivanka on their wedding day. His father is a boorish and gluttonous man, while his mother is a small, snobbish woman. The sole exception is Taki's little brother, Vasil, who's an innocent kid Ivanka immediately bonds with.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: At the end, the bustling main street burns down when a vengeful mercenary whom Avram Nemtour refused to pay after he botched Lazar's assassination sets his stores on fire.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Lame Atanas, a burly villager who gets brutalized by Hayredin.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_507a98ba	type	"Near and Dear" Baby Naming
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_507a98ba	comment	"Near and Dear" Baby Naming: While a lot of people, as per Bulgarian tradition, are named after relatives or other loved ones from the previous generation (who are often dead by the time the person is an adult), they don't need to be dead when the child is born. As in real life, newborns tend to take the name of a grandparent or a family friend: Stoyan and Sultana's firstborn is named Kocho, after Stoyan's coppersmith mentor who first took him in. Atze Kutrev's son is named Raiko, after the teacher and rebel Raiko Vardarski, who used to live in the Kutrevi's home. Raiko Jr. becomes a teacher and a rebel leader as well. Kocho's firstborn son is named Stoyan, after his grandfather. Kocho's eldest daughter is named Tzareva, which is a loose translation of Sultana's name to Bulgarian.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: With Sultana and Nia. Sultana's backstory establishes her as the granddaughter of a wealthy merchant who lost everything when his stores burned down. Nia's father, also a wealthy merchant, also dies after his stores at the very same place burn down.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_5320ff11	type	This Is My Name on Foreign
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_5320ff11	comment	Kocho's eldest daughter is named Tzareva, which is a loose translation of Sultana's name to Bulgarian.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_55365db5	type	City Mouse
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_55365db5	comment	Georgi Babolev, returning from Vienna, is a City Mouse who sees his hometown as a cramped, dirty, run-down village.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Taki drops all courtesy and charm the moment he takes Ivanka to the bedroom at their wedding night. He forces himself on her, then in the morning tries to stop her from going to school and when she won't quit her job, slaps her across the face and rips her dress. She has none of it and leaves him immediately.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_5f0c81fd	type	Mistress and Servant Boy
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_5f0c81fd	comment	Mistress and Servant Boy: At the start, Stoyan Glaoushev, recent refugee to the town, is hired to work at Sultana's home. She marries him partly to revitalize her household, which she manages to do.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Raiko Vardarski, the Hot-Blooded newcomer teacher full of Rebellious Spirit.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Lazar and Nia have been in love since the beginning of their courtship. Deconstructed in that external circumstances (in-laws, Lazar's political life, not having a child for a long time) still put a strain on their marriage, but reconstructed in that they endure and still love each other.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_65dc4d9a	type	The Obi-Wan
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_65dc4d9a	comment	Stoyan and Sultana's firstborn is named Kocho, after Stoyan's coppersmith mentor who first took him in.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_663ffef6	type	Majored in Western Hypocrisy
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_663ffef6	comment	Majored in Western Hypocrisy: Georgi Babolev, the son of the wealthiest merchant in Prespa, is sent to Vienna to study. He comes back an even wealthier merchant who idolizes the Western European countries which are prosperous but uninterested in liberating the Balkans, in contrast with his the Russophilia of his compatriots who rely on pan-Slavism in their belief that Russia will assist Bulgaria and Macedonia's liberation (historically justified for Bulgaria except for the part of it situated in Macedonia).
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_66dbffe8	type	Schoolmarm
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_66dbffe8	comment	Schoolmarm: Ivanka Roumenova arrives to head the all-girls school. She quits and moves out of town when Taki tries to stop her from teaching the morning after their wedding night.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_6a6b23ff	type	Unfazed Everyman
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_6a6b23ff	comment	Even the Unfazed Everyman Itzo Babolev who isn't intimidated by anything he can buy his way to feels this way for a moment when he first arrives at Vienna.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Sultana, granddaughter of a wealthy man, is born among the fallout of his riches as a fire has destroyed most of it and left her an unpromising match. Later the same fate befalls the Nemtour family as Avram suffers losses due to arson and doesn't leave much to his daughter Nia.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_7b0b0907	type	All Jews Are Cheapskates
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_7b0b0907	comment	All Jews Are Cheapskates: It's Eastern Europe after all, so stereotypes modern American viewers see as Jewish are applied to Balkan people at large and seen as a virtue, what with the relative poverty they lived in during the late Ottoman age. Sultana specifically is adamant on running a tight budget and refuses to buy anything new if old things can be patched up. She even opposes Nia's gas lamp, seeing it as an excessive luxury compared to the old eponymous candlestick. Amusingly enough, Avram Nemtour, the wealthiest man in town, is a Jew. While he's not cheap when it comes to personal luxuries, he is an arrogant and corrupt chorbadji whose character falls more in line with the wealthy Greedy Jew stereotype.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Sultana is a surly, uptight woman who glares at everyone, nags at her loved ones, especially her husband, for every light-hearted thing they do, but does care for them and allows herself to be kind on rare occasions.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Lazar to both his childhood friend Andrea Benkov, and the newcomer, hothead rebellious teacher, Raiko Vardarski.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Avram Nemtour antagonizes Lazar at every turn just so he can keep lining his pockets, he orders Lazar's assassination. When the Turk he hired fails, Nemtour refuses to pay him, causing the assassin to set his shops on fire. Avram goes bankrupt and suffers a stroke which leaves him halfway paralyzed and he dies soon afterwards.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Raiko Kutrev's Fiancée, Maria, is lusted after by her own cousin, Pantoush "Popcorn Pantou".
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_92587498	comment	Five-Man Band: Lazar's rebel band who set out to resist Hayredin Arap Aga and the other Turkish landowners. The Hero: Lazar himself, The Leader and an all-time political reformer who manages to keep a cool head. The Lancer: Raiko Vardarski, the Hot-Blooded newcomer teacher full of Rebellious Spirit. The Big Guy: Lame Atanas, a burly villager who gets brutalized by Hayredin. Mission Control: Atze Kutrev, another villager who organizes more of his peers into joining the rebellion. The Heart: Andrea Benkov, Lazar's best friend who's sensitive and fiery, doesn't do much, but sticks with them until the end.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Bozhana Benkova as Betty and Nia Nemtur as Veronica for Lazar Glaoushev. He and Nia are in love from the start, but he proposes to Bozhana in a moment of friendly affection when she is ill, later unwilling to break his promise to his best friend's sister. However, she dies before they could get married, and his mother is working for him and Nia to get together anyway.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_973d4e8	comment	Loved I Not Honor More: His revolutionary activities for the sake of his people distract Lazar's emotions from his wife, who in turn suffers and gets the false impression that he doesn't love her anymore.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_97ee3a58	type	Vicariously Ambitious
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_97ee3a58	comment	Vicariously Ambitious: Sultana is adamant on restoring her family's prestige. As such, she'll nag his husband to ask for raises, set up his own shop and be aggressive when he gets pressed. She also tries to arrange high-value marriages for her children, which is the only reason she supports Lazar's feelings for Nia.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_98f22e5f	type	Wardens Are Evil
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_98f22e5f	comment	Wardens Are Evil: Ottoman prison wardens are generally portrayed like this. But one Albanian inmate, Jafer, who is hired to beat the rest for interrogations, subverts the trope: After Hauredin Arap Aga is assassinated he approaches Lazar and treats him with admiration for the bravery in that deed. Lazar denies, but asks Jafer to go easy on the weak link who accidentally gave the whole company away (Jafer would have otherwise beaten him to death for his betrayal). The man does so out of Villain Respect for Lazar and his friends.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_99404851	type	Ladykiller in Love
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_99404851	comment	Ladykiller in Love: How Taki Brashnarov seduces Ivanka Roumenova.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Lazar and his mother can hold some grudges. Lazar never sets foot in Nia's house because of her late father with whom he clashed politically; when he finally has the house taken down and a bigger one built in its place to move to with Nia, it's Sultana's turn to vow to never set foot there. It takes Nia going into labor for her mother-in-law to forget the grudge and rush to her house.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_b8dde2	comment	Evil Overlord: Hayredin Arap Aga. Originally a simple Psycho for Hire leaading a band of thugs and used by the local beys to keep the raya (non-Muslim serfs) in check by brutalizing them, he soon accumulates enough wealth (mostly by stealing) to become a feudal of his own, build a keep and from it terrorize the surrounding villages. Lazar forms a band of rebels to assassinate him.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_bcb2cfe1	type	Beam Me Up, Scotty!
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_bcb2cfe1	comment	Beam Me Up, Scotty!: In-Universe. One time, Vardarski has gathered some people, reading them a revolutionary poem note Elegy by Hristo Botev, containing the line "A serpent sucking the people's life". One of the men at the gathering repeats it as "A serpent is sucking the people".
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: Atze Kutrev, another villager who organizes more of his peers into joining the rebellion.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: In Catherina's arc. She and Rafe fall in love and start a Secret Relationship. Her mother finds out and is outraged, but after seeing her daughter so happy, agrees to marry her off to him anyway. The condition is that Catherina aborts her child so people won't see her pregnant. This ends up killing her.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: Several families over the generations. Stoyan Glaoushev comes to Prespa as a refugee, becomes a coppersmith, marries the impoverished but still richer Sultana, then sets up shop himself, building up a decent-sized business that would later be taken up by his firstborn son, Kocho. Kocho later emigrates to a liberated Bulgaria where he gets richer, his sons get much better education and more prestigious jobs such as lawyers and army officers. Stoya's other son, Lazar, also does reasonably well as a grain trader. Itzo Babolev and his brother Miro starts out as a couple of poor boys who do menial jobs for miserable pay. Itzo then starts a small shop and eventually journeys to Vienna, where he establishes trade contacts and becomes the richest merchant in Prespa. He sends his nephew, Miro's son Georgi, to Vienna to study, and when he returns, he expands the family business even more, building the first industrial grain mill in the town.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_cb1a6514	type	Country Mouse
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_cb1a6514	comment	Country Mouse: Characters often react this way when they visit or move to a larger settlement: People from the villages, like Stoyan Glaoushev, when they come to Prespa. Townspeople of Prespa when they visit a city like Sofia or Thesallonica. Even the Unfazed Everyman Itzo Babolev who isn't intimidated by anything he can buy his way to feels this way for a moment when he first arrives at Vienna. Georgi Babolev, returning from Vienna, is a City Mouse who sees his hometown as a cramped, dirty, run-down village.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: The Glaoushev men as rebels throughout generations. Stoyan is a peasant who kills his Feudal Overlord's dog in revenge and flees to avoid persecution. Lazar helps form a resistance movement in Prespa, but is confined to the town and the surrounding villages. His son Boris becomes heaviy involved in a rebellion sweeping throughout all of Macedonia.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_d1d1f420	type	Connected All Along
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_d1d1f420	comment	Connected All Along: Two Russians arrive to Prespa at some point. Ivanka Roumenova recognizes one of them who is going under an alias. It's implied they used to be lovers.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_d5921e22	type	Prince Charmless
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_d5921e22	comment	Prince Charmless: Taki. He woos Ivanka with tact and feigned respect, acts romantic and gentlemanly, then drops it all the moment she sets foot in his bedroom.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_de89c0a1	type	Dating What Daddy Hates
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_de89c0a1	comment	Dating What Mommy Hates: Catherina falls for Rafe Klinche, who Sultana really doesn't want for a son-in-law because he's messy and unreliable. Deconstructed when Catherina gets pregnant out of wedlock and her mother poisons her to cause an abortion, which causes Catherina's death.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Stoyan is frequently described as child-like when he comes to the city. He's a sincere man who can't hide his emotions, is genuinely surprised at unexpected turns of events, and has to be reined in or spurred on by his controlling wife.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Andrea Benkov has a romantic friendship with Lazar. While that could just be read as an example of Have a Gay Old Time, it's worth noting that Andrea never married or showed any interest in women.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_e49686	type	The Hero
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_e49686	comment	The Hero: Lazar himself, The Leader and an all-time political reformer who manages to keep a cool head.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_e4d079c1	type	Greek Chorus
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_e4d079c1	comment	Greek Chorus: Unrelated to the other characters, there are two poor craftsmen, the Bulgarian Nestor and the Turk Reçep, who discuss the animosity between the two peoples, even if the two of them are friends.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_e8cfde67	type	Ambiguous Disorder
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_e8cfde67	comment	Ambiguous Disorder: Rafe Klinche, the woodcarver who gets hired to fashion the new church's iconostasis, is a very creative and kind but very easily distracted and untidy person. He is brilliant at his art but his home is a mess where his stuff is in piles strewn everywhere and a cat lives with her young. This is rather typical of attention deficit disorder. In the words of Sultana as why she would not want him as a son-in-law:
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_f2c895f	type	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The early IMRO is described more from the freedom fighter angle, but far less idealized than most Bulgarian works set in the era which play the trope completely straight when it comes to rebels.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_f4f3252e	type	Law of Inverse Fertility
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: Nia's angst stems from her not having any children until much later. Also Ivanka who flees her husband after her disastrous wedding night and he has already gotten her pregnant.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Hristaki 'Taki' Brashnarov is a Younger and Hipper version of Avram Nemtour - a wealthy Grecoman (Hellenised Bulgarian) who is Lazar Glaoushev's political rival in the town, prone to bribery and racketeering, stuck-up and takes the side of the oppressive Turkish government, later even selling rebels out.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: Sultana is unmarried at 25, which makes her desperate enough to marry a man recently come from the poor villages nearby to seek work.
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The Prespa Tetralogy / int_ff66d4c1	type	Not So Similar
The Prespa Tetralogy / int_ff66d4c1	comment	Not So Similar: Sultana's attempt at using a "Not So Different" Remark between herself and Nia from the previous book is carried over and deconstructed here. The two women quickly come to a conflict in a home where the mother-in-law is adamant on keeping control. However, Nia, while not letting herself be dominated, is not confrontational unless pressed and settles for a quiet Passive-Aggressive Kombat.
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