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The story follows three principal families whose lives intersect around the in the fictional town of Kovachevtsi (a stand‑in for the real city of Plovdiv ).

Conversely, Petar Nikolov’s resistance to selling his land to the factory symbolizes the yearning for an autonomous, agrarian identity. Dimov does not romanticise the past; he exposes its limitations—inefficient practices, susceptibility to market fluctuations, and patriarchal oppression. Yet he also paints the industrial world as a new kind of tyranny, where the individual is subsumed under a faceless bureaucracy. The novel’s ambivalence suggests that progress is inevitable, but it must be tempered by ethical considerations. Dimitar Dimov Tutun 22.pdf

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