The latest addition to my website is Magdalena Blažević‘s U kasno ljeto (In Late Summer). The novel, narrated by a girl called Ivana, is set in Bosnia in the early 1990s. Ivana. Neither Bosnia nor the war are specifically mentioned. Ivana and her family live in an agricultural village, where life goes on smoothly, people get on and make a living. However we learn that the village was attacked when Ivana was four and they managed to hide. However Ivana, now fourteen, tells us early on that she is now fourteen and this is her last summer. The family flee their village and go to an abandoned village but the faceless soldiers attack and Ivana is killed and her mother wounded. Though dead, Ivana continues to narrate, telling us what happened to her family, the village and even how and where she was buried. The story is told exclusively from the victims’. perspective. We are never told who the soldiers are and why they are there, though we know of course what happened in Bosnia in the early 1990s, and the soldiers are entirely faceless killing machines. Blažević tells an excellent story of war and its horrors