The Pobratim

'The Pobratim: A Slav Novel' is a romance novel set in a Slavic village. The day of Milena Zwillievic's marriage had, indeed, been a Black Friday to her. First, she knew that she was being sold to pay her father's debts; secondly, the bridegroom Radonic was old enough to be her father. Added to all this, he was a heavy, rough, uncouth kind of a fellow, the terror of all seamen, and, as he treated his crew as if they had been slaves, no man ever sailed with him if he could possibly get another berth. But when she met Uroc, a young man of her own age, she began to suspect that he was in love with her, something that did not bode well for either of them…