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Vinka Sazdova <\/strong>(born in 1956 in Strezovce) graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, Department of Psychology. Sazdova has worked as a journalist in the culture sections of the newspapers \u201cVecher\u201d and \u201cRepublika\u201d. She has also worked in the publishing houses \u201cKultura\u201d and \u201cZumpres\u201d. She is the founder of \u201cTRI publishing center\u201d. Sazdova is the author of the novels \u201cThe Last Tea\u201d (2009), \u201cFields of Wild Daffodils\u201d (2011), \u201cHappiness Does Come Sometimes\u201d (2013), \u201cLuna\u201d (2015) and \u201cVilino\u201d (2019). \u201cThe Last Tea\u201d was translated into English, Serbian, Croatian and Bulgarian. She has received the Most Read Author Award twice \u2013 in 2012 by the National and University Library \u201cSt. Clement of Ohrid\u201d and in 2014 by the City Library \u201cMiladinov Brothers\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Last Tea\u201d is a novel about one woman\u2019s quest to rediscover herself and to find a new meaning in life. The forty-year-old protagonist suddenly leaves her family \u2013 her husband and three children \u2013 and embarks on a spiritual journey far from home to an ashram in India. Encouraged by the people she befriends and their life stories, as well as her own emerging reminiscences even stronger than the real events, she manages to fight her demons and attain harmony within herself. Absolved from the chains of the past, she is finally ready to embrace life and live in the present, realizing that home is where you are. \u201cThe Last Tea\u201d opens up our own stories. It encourages us to face them and accept them for what they are, whether beautiful or ugly. Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Full of Eastern wisdom and mystical philosophy, this book is rich in psychological and finely sculpted male and female characters, which confirms the mastery of the author that the readers already know. It is like a therapy: the cheerful female protagonist contrasted with the city as a den of passions. Venko Andonovski, the famous Macedonian author marked this book as a fierce novel about the call of freedom and the fear of it. It is about voluntary slavery in \u201csafe\u201d marital waters, he said. Refined symbolism of details, precognitions dreams, seismographic tremors of the soul \u2013 this book is many novels perfectly fitted into one. Vilino is a medicine. It heals the soul of the eternal wanderers. Bulgaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOutstanding title:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
THE LAST TEA (2009)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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VILINO (2019)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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