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In September 1989, seventeen-year-old Silva disappears during a fishing festival in a small Croatian town. The investigation in hot pursuit yields no results. Meanwhile, the tumultuous political events in Croatia - the collapse of the system, social change, and war - begin to overshadow this tragic incident, and everyone eventually forgets about it, except Silva's relatives, who continue to search for her.

The novel Red Water is a twenty-seven-year story of one family, the search for answers, and the fates of people who are somehow connected to Silva and her disappearance. At the same time, it is also the almost thirty-year tragic history of Croatia, against which the events of the novel take place."

The novel Red Water by Jurica Pavićić was awarded the French Prix de la Fédération as the best translated crime novel of 2021.