She has never married and now, aged fifty, lives on her own in a small cottage that Ilie got her to get rid of her. He is bitterly resentful about this, as he wants to go to school but cannot. Niculae has to stay at home and look after the sheep. The three oldest boys have to work in the fields with their father and are bitterly resentful, particularly Paraschiv. They have acquired some land, both as a result of the post-World War I land reform and also because Catrina received some as compensation for being a war widow. The couple have children jointly – Ilinca and Niculae. Tita is Catrina’s daughter from her previous marriage. Ilie’s three sons from his first marriage are Paraschiv, Nila and Achim. As with Preda’s parents, both had been married before and both had children from a previous marriage. The Moromete family, the main focus of the story, consists of Ilie and Catrina. It tells the story of a small village in Romania, relatively remote from world events. It is set in the 1930s, with memories of World War I still fresh and the crisis of World War II starting to loom. This novel is clearly semi-autobiographical, with Niculaie Moromete being based on Preda himself and other family members of his own family.
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