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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. 

“The crime novel of the year: 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

"This finely engineered, haunting novel has been deservedly garlanded with awards.” ---Financial Times

“A brilliant cocktail of mystery and recent history, compellingly told."--Kirkus

Jurica Pavičić 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. 

Matt Robinson, born in the UK in 1978, moved to Belgrade in 2000, joining the pioneering independent radio station B92 as a news presenter and editor. Between 2004 and 2018 he worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters news. He now lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, working as a freelance editor and literary translator. He is also writing a book about the former Yugoslavia. Red Water is the second novel he has translated.