An amazing read (listen)

I am Croatian, and have read this book in Croatian several times. It's a great, dark story, perfectly set in its environment, which draws you in and doesn't let go. When I saw it was being translated to English, I was a bit worried how that would work. Like I said, the plot and much of the atmosphere are rooted in the location of the story. Then I saw who the translator was, so I was a bit less worried, because if anyone could do it, it's Ellen Elias-Bursać. Now I listened to the book - in one day. It literally took me one day to do it. It's narrated by an amazing narrator, whom I've listened to before and admired (Bad Blood - great job!), and this performance is just as impressive. You can hear (well, *we* can hear; the general international audience won't really care) the work he's done to pronounce the local names as close to original as possible, and the amazing translation helped him with perfect translations of some of the things I thought were untranslatable. That's why Ellen Bursać is such an amazing translator. Anyway, this is a dark, heavy, wonderfully written thriller-horror story, and if you like those, don't miss it!

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