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Ms Adela is an extraordinary character who is hard to forget. So is the spring of 2020 in Zagreb, which was marked by the arrival of the coronavirus and Zgzec, the offending earthquake. But what does this mean for Adela, a wealthy widow who was prevented from celebrating her much-anticipated anniversary birthday by the global pandemic? What is hidden in the will she rewrites every day and blackmails her family with? What awaits Ms Adela on the streets of her native Zagreb, which was hit by an earthquake?

Nada Gašić tells about all this and other tragicomic vicissitudes of an elderly Zagreb woman in her new novel Nine Lives of Adela. The author skilfully combines fairy tales, grotesque, spy realism, comedy and fantasy, writing surprisingly realistic dialogues that clearly define the characters and their dramas.