Slanting Towards the Sea by Lidija Hilje #literature 9780571365449

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Feeling charitable

New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind

maybe for one last time

Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife

Slanting Towards the Sea by Lidija Hilje #literature 9780571365449While we were together, Vlaho and I joked that we had more anniversaries than Croatia had islands. Ivona and Vlaho meet as students at the turn of the millennium in Zagreb. Everything smells of freedom and possibility. Red Hot Chili Peppers are pumping through the speakers of a bar in the city centre and cheap beer is overflowing; newly democratic Croatia is alive with hope and promise. They fall in love instantly. A decade later, Ivona has returned