A patchwork life

he novel "Krpen život" by Stale Popov is a social-social and family novel. The events are arranged in chronological order. It describes the village of Vitolishte in detail, and covers the period from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

The narration is in the third person by an omniscient and omnipresent narrator.

The theme of the novel is the life of the Sukalovci family from the village of Vitolishte in Mariov, and the idea is to give a complete picture of life (customs, language, folklore) in the villages of Mariov at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

The novel is a living encyclopedia of the life and people of Mariovo and is full of ethnographic and folklore features, described in detail and brought to life through the characters, i.e. through the Sukalovci family.