• Publisher: Beletrina
• Author: Ana Schnabl
• Original title: Plima

Tide is a psychological-crime novel. No. Tide is a concert with broken in- struments – people – set on the stage of the Slovenian coast. With a main protagonist, the writer Dunja, shrouded in marijuana smoke, haunted by the deaths of her father and brother. With Katarina, Dunja’s childhood friend, tormented by the circumstances of her life. With Kristijan, who under social pressure sculpted his body and turned off his true self. With Mirela, who in her crammed apartment holds onto Michael Jackson for all the wrong rea- sons. With Duška, who is not yet quite broken because she is too young, and she never knew Dražen, Dunja’s brother. Tide is a long composition about the violence brought about by human ambivalence, limitations, impossibili-ties and also – decisions. But Tide is not only a sad arrangement, nor is it loud, and its rhythms are not the rhythms of morality. It is permeated too by warm tones, the sounds of the sea, cicadas, the Adriatic wind and the transformation of distance, as it is freshly measured and found to be closeness.

About the author

Ana Schnabl

Ana Schnabl (1985) is a writer and editor. A doctoral student of phi- losophy, her research focuses on feminist autobiography. She writes for several Slovenian literary jour- nals, has collaborated with the daily Dnevnik and is the first editor of the Versopolis Review. In 2017, her short story collection Razvezani (Disentan- gling) received the Best Debut Award at the annual Slovenian Book Fair as well as a number of nominations for other awards. So far, she has writ- ten two novels, namely Mojstrovina (The Masterpiece) and Plima (Tide), and she is currently working on a collection of novellas about failed (fictional) female artists and a

non-fiction book about mushrooms. Her first literary translation, Daisy Johnson’s Sisters, will be published in 2022. In her spare time, she is a helicopter parent to two dogs and a cat and dreams of having a vegetable garden.