Krste Čačanski is one of the most talented and most authentic Macedonian prose writers of his generation – the generation which started out from the postmodernism of Jorge Luis Borges. His choice to depict a theme from the historical past of the Macedonian people in his novel The Book of the Sky was thereby a kind of a surprise for the readers. Yet he stayed consistent to his poetics by what he says in the motto of the novel: “He is not retelling history, but is speaking about the destiny of words such as the word Book”.  Well chosen characters and destinies inhabiting the area around the Ohrid Lake during the Ottoman Empire also enable him to show the marginal areas of the people that do not fit in the big matrixes and schemes, which most often are the ones who suffer, together with the people trying to surpass the limits of their time.