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IVANA BODROIĆ was born in Vukovar, Croatia, in 1982 where she lived until the Yugoslav wars started in 1991. That year her father disappeared while fighting for Croatian independence and she and the rest of her family moved to Kumrovec, where they stayed at a hotel for displaced persons. In 2005, she published her first poetry collection, The First Step into Darkness. The Hotel Tito, her first novel,was published in 2010, receiving high praise from both critics and audiences and becoming a Croatian bestseller. She has since published a second poetry collection, A Crossing for Wild Animals,and a short story collection,100% Cotton. Her political thriller, The Pit, will be published by Seven Stories in 2019. ELLEN ELIAS-BURSAĆ is a translator of fiction and nonfiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian.She has taught in the Harvard University Slavic Department and is a contributing editor to the online journal Asymptote. She lives in Boston.
Bodro ic has a knack for noticing. Seamlessly, she taps into the perceptiveness of the child's-eye-view and casts it on the page in crystalline form. To shape these minute details into a smooth and compelling read is a testament to Bodro ic's talent, a facility mirrored by the capable hands of Elias-Bursac. --Sara Novic, author of Girl at War
