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Where the Wild Things Grow

Explore our connections with ecology, rituals, the cosmos, and the pressing climate challenges of our time

Corridoio (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Matilde Soliani
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
8 minutes read

Distorti

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Valeria Parlato
Written in Spanish by Matías Candeira
7 minutes read

Sinossi

Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
4 minutes read

Punto di fuga

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Antonio De Sortis
Written in Dutch by Maud Vanhauwaert
8 minutes read

Acquagrave

Translated from Slovenian to Italian by Giorgia Maurovich
Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj
10 minutes read

Di me non sai

Lucio falls in love with "the boy" even before meeting him: just watching him from the window of his office is enough for him to become almost obsessed. When they finally meet, he discovers that Davide is much younger than him (still studying), and that he is elusive, unreliable, and "cruel" in the way only twenty-year-olds can be cruel. For two months, Lucio and Davide have dinner together, have sex, go to the beach, and often sleep at Lucio's place. However, Davide does not fall in love. He continues to seek Lorenzo, the only man he (perhaps) truly loved, of whom he keeps only a pixelated photo on an old cellphone. Like many twenty-year-olds, he is also confused, wounded, and willing to nestle into the routine of always having a Coca-Cola ready for him in the refrigerator. "Di me non sai" tells the story of a relationship lived in an opposite, incompatible way, whose nature is revealed to the reader only as the novel progresses. Alternating the perspectives of the two protagonists in short, sometimes very short chapters, Raffaele Cataldo shows the misalignment of feelings and the painful consequences it can have, the slow pace of hot Apulian summers, and the obsessive loves (present and absent) that, like wild oat seeds, cling to hair, shoes, and clothes.
Written in Italian by Raffaele Cataldo
4 minutes read

C'era una volta in Crimea

Translated from Ukranian to Italian by Claudia Bettiol
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
11 minutes read

Residence

Written in Italian by Maurizio Amendola
9 minutes read

L’inizio e la sua eternità

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Jessica Rostro Benigno
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
9 minutes read

Cara, francamente me ne infischio

Translated from Czech to Italian by Elena Zuccolo
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
9 minutes read

Non voglio essere un cane

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
8 minutes read

Manovra

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Antonio De Sortis
Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

Bestie voi tutte dei campi

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
8 minutes read

Calcare

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
8 minutes read

Le bugie si accumulano in fretta

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Antonio De Sortis
Written in Dutch by Carmien Michels
8 minutes read

Caseggiati arancioni

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Martino Gandi
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
8 minutes read

Fili

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Francesco Panzeri
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
8 minutes read

Esmeralda

Translated from Portugese to Italian by Elisa Rossi
Written in Portugese by Luis Brito
7 minutes read

Tutti gli uomini diventano fratelli

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Francesco Panzeri
Written in Dutch by Yelena Schmitz
8 minutes read

TRE!

Translated from Czech to Italian by Marco Maria Baù
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
8 minutes read
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