Water, Spiderweb

“The climax at the end, with several exceptionally powerful scenes depicting the destruction of a person’s frantic and frail humanity, can be compared, when it comes to the amount of suffering, callousness, and humiliation of oneself and others, to the films of Lars von Trier.”—Croatian National Radio

"[P]lants the seeds of a classic police procedural before turning its focus squarely onto the financial inequality, shifting morality, and desperate alienation that arose after the initial euphoria of Croatian independence had faded. Ultimately, the novel is less concerned with the crime solving than the social criticism, and by broadening its scope, Gašić’s English-language debut finds Croatia’s economic and political environment as culpable as any individual criminal."—On the Seawall The 1964 Sava River flood sets in motion this literary thriller and then sweeps away everything before it.

With Water, Spiderweb Nada Gašic cements her reputation as both a spellbinding author and a remarkable chronicler of the city she calls home: Zagreb, Croatia. An eccentric cast of marginalized characters, from a mentally ill man who channels the Virgin Mary to three sisters cast from a disfigured version of the Cinderella fairy tale, this novel is not so much about crimes committed but rather the questions around why these crimes are committed, on an individual level and on a societal level.

In piecing together the clues that may or may not answer these questions, Gašic makes clear that we are the ones responsible for the circumstances that yield the deaths of the innocent.

• | Author: Nada Gasic, Ellen Elias-Bursac
• | Publisher: Sandorf Passage
• | Publication Date: Oct 29, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9789533515199
• | ISBN-10: 9533515198