The Naked She-wolf

Self-hating, self-obsessed, morose yet highly perceptive and intelligent, Ana moves among trendy Zagreb intelligentsia like a spectre at the feast. Her brilliant first novel has remained unnoticed. If she were beautiful like her fascinating colleague Nina or famous like her handsome journalist friend David, the critics would eat out of her hand. When David comes up with a plan to test her theory, Ana plays along. But it is almost too late to save Ana from her demons: a dark secret has risen from the past, and a mysterious online admirer, Anton, seems to know everything... This postmodern book opens up the world of the contemporary urban life in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, to the English reader. Still scarred by the recent war for independence and trying for membership in the EU, Croatia is struggling to define its identity. Ana, too, needs to discover who she really is: a daughter, a writer, a friend, a woman?