The Covenant

by Manuela Davidovic

It's late 90s. Martin, a twenty-seven-year-old mechanical engineer of Vlah descent, flees Romania by crossing the Danube. On the other side of the river, he lands in a small Vlah village in Eastern Serbia. In the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars, the situation in Serbia is far from ideal, so Martin decides to move on and go to Canada. Due to a number of hindrances and setbacks, he remains stuck in Italy. Handsome, educated, versatile, a 'rolling stone that gathers no moss', Martin has all the prerogatives to be successful in every area of his life. Yet his life seems to be in permanent stagnation, and his existence a continual drudgery. To recompense him for his losses, there are women, who shower him with love and attention. Until he meets Linda, and some mysteries start to unravel.

252 pages, Paperback

Published May 28, 2019

About the author

I am Vlah-Serbian, a freelance foreign language teacher and interpreter. My passion for languages took me out of my country while I was still a high-school student. I've lived, studied and worked in England, in Spain, in Austria, in Germany, in the Dominican Republic, and since 1994 I've been living as ex-pat in Italy, where I had a language school for ten years until, due to one life-changing personal experience in the Dominican Republic, I decided to write my first book - The Coral Reef - which I'm revising to republish it as Los Corales.
I love writing stories in foreign languages - so far in English, German, Italian and Spanish. I have no big plans for the future, except to learn more languages and publish the books that I've written.

I'm currently learning Portuguese and Turkish, and working on a new novel - a thriller this time.