Description
A woman disappears after a beach party, and the search for her reveals Croatia's complex history well beyond the fall of Communism.
Silva is beautiful and cheeky, she has many admirers; but the police investigation reveals a more complex young woman than her family knew--a high school student who dabbles in drugs and deals in heroin. But Silva's brother loves her and stubbornly continues the search for her amid the upheavals of Croatian society. The following years will see the fall of communism and five long years of war. It will be almost 30 years till Silva's fate is revealed."This finely engineered, haunting novel has been deservedly garlanded with awards." ---Financial Times
"A brilliant cocktail of mystery and recent history, compellingly told."--Kirkus
"The best crime fiction of 2025 so far: In this outstanding novel, Jurica Pavicic uses the unsolved disappearance of a teenage girl, Silva, to document the impact of the Yugoslav civil war." --Times/Sunday Times
Author: Jurica Pavičic
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Published: 06/24/2025
Pages: 402
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781916725157
ISBN10: 1916725155
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | International Crime & Mystery
- Fiction | Historical | 20th Century | Post-World War II
- Fiction | World Literature | Europe (General)
About the Author
Author Jurica Pavičic is a Croatian writer, scriptwriter, and journalist. Born in 1965 and living in Split, Croatia, he has written seven novels, two collections of short stories, and essays on film, Dalmatia, and the Mediterranean world. His work has been translated into five languages, but Red Water is his first novel to be translated into English.
Translator Matt Robinson, born in the UK in 1978, moved to Belgrade in 2000 and worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters. He now lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, working as a freelance editor and literary translator. Red Water is the second novel he has translated.