Адажио за Мария

The love of Vangel and Maria, which both fight for all their lives, is carried through the upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century. In Thessaloniki, still part of the Ottoman Empire, the young man must choose between fleeing abroad with Maria, his forbidden love, and staying with his fellow conspirators, who fight with bombs for the freedom of Macedonia; Maria is pushed into an arranged marriage that joins the city's two richest families. Their story passes through the Ilinden uprising, the Balkan Wars and the First World War, through the forced denial of Bulgarian identity and resettlement in a Bulgaria ravaged by war. Drawing on the history of the author's own family, the novel also touches on women standing up to men's rule and on the rise of Nazism.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

502 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Historical (assigned by AI)

First published

2025 by Musagena

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9786197614794 (original)