An exceptional novel of powerful images, overlapping circles, associations rich with scents and sounds — the scenes would be picturesque were it not for the raw war crime woven into the fabric of this suggestive and poetic narrative. 'My name is Ivana. I lived fourteen summers, and this is the story of the last one.' Small in scope, vast in theme, this is a novel of open space and nature, a novel in which darkness prevails over light, death over life — written from the perspective of a murdered girl, it presents, in a language of tenderness, all the brutality of a world concealed within the idyll of rural pastoral. A novel about death from which birds still sing.

Magdalena Blažević, like Agota Kristof or Ingeborg Bachmann, creates a world woven from emotions that simmer beneath perfectly precise and lucid sentences. In Late Summer is a novel to be read slowly, because its fears, sorrows, strength, hopes and grief rise from every word — placing Magdalena Blažević among the finest contemporary literary voices. (Seid Serdarević)

Magdalena Blažević (b. 1982) was born and raised in Žepče. She is the author of the short story collection Svetkovina (2020) and the novel In Late Summer (2022), which won the Tportal Award for the best Croatian novel published in the preceding year. She has received several awards for best short story, including the Ranko Marinković Award. She lives in Mostar.

Anđelka Raguž migrated to Australia with her parents from Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of the 60s and returned in 1990. She has been teaching English Literature at the University of Mostar for the past twenty years. In Late Summer is her first literary translation.

The audiobook was published with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia.