Rezumat

Translated from Italian to Romanian by Elena Damaschin

Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi

4 minutes read

Toți pe lume frați noi suntem

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Irina Kappelhof Costea

Written in Dutch by Yelena Schmitz

8 minutes read

Cu păsările am în comun cerul

Translated from Slovenian to Romanian by Paula Braga Šimenc

Written in Slovenian by Agata Tomažič

9 minutes read

Măi, fetelor (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

There are few places across Europe which have had the tumultuous story of Moldova in the 20th and 21st centuries. My greatgrandmother, for instance, spent most of her life in the same village while living in four different countries: she was born in the Russian Empire, went to school in Romania, resisted collectivisation and eventually gave in during the Soviet era, and got retired in the independent Republic of Moldova. I share her story in this book, as well as stories of other people with different backgrounds I interviewed, in an effort to create a polyphonic view of Moldova’s recent history. Chronologically, the book starts with the 1903 infamous Chisinau pogrom and it ends with the 2022 refugee crisis caused by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Geographically, the stories are rooted in Moldova but they cover the whole world thanks to the processes of migration that characterised all of the communities described in this book — Jewish, Roma, Armenian, Moldovan, Ukrainian, Russian etc. — at different points during history.

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

7 minutes read

Podul

Translated from Portugese to Romanian by Simina Popa

Written in Portugese by João Valente

9 minutes read

Calcan

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Alexa Stoicescu

Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker

8 minutes read

N-am fost, dar acum sunt. Sensibilă la fiecare schimbare a vremii

Translated from Serbian to Romanian by Virginia Popovic

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

9 minutes read

Strâmbi

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Oana-Dana Balaş

Written in Spanish by Matías Candeira

7 minutes read

Vocea Sulinei

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Andreea Bălteanu

Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel

7 minutes read

Presiune

Translated from Portugese to Romanian by Iolanda Vasile

Written in Portugese by Luis Brito

6 minutes read

Despre cai și demoni

Translated from Slovenian to Romanian by Paula Braga Šimenc

Written in Slovenian by Mirt Komel

5 minutes read

Însemnări pe marginea vieții lui Frances Donnell

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Silvia Alexandra Ștefan

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings

6 minutes read

Chiar și dacă n-apuci să vezi decât o picătură

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu

Written in Dutch by Rebekka de Wit

9 minutes read

24

Translated from Serbian to Romanian by Virginia Popovic

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

9 minutes read

Portasarlumea

Written in Romanian by Cătălin Pavel

9 minutes read

Toate lifturile duc la parter (Apă de privit)

Translated from Bulgarian to Romanian by Maria Andrei

Written in Bulgarian by Gergana Galabova

9 minutes read

Fire

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Irina Kappelhof Costea

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

8 minutes read

Renegata

Translated from Italian to Romanian by George Doru Ivan

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

9 minutes read

Coridor (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Andreea Bălteanu

Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs

8 minutes read

Toată dragostea dintr-o fotografie arsă (All the Love in a Burnt Photograph)

Toată dragostea dintr-o fotografie arsă pune reflectorul pe relația a trei generații de femei, care înțeleg lumea în moduri aproape incompatibile unul cu celălalt. Familia și echilibrul ei precar sunt zdruncinate de internarea bruscă a celei mai vârstnice dintre ele. Fricile paralizante capătă contur în apropierea morții iminente. Mecanismele lor de apărare, mai ales felurile în care fiecare parazitează viața celeilalte, în numele datoriei și al iubirii materne, ies la suprafață. Iar Leia, aflată la mijlocul distanței este cea care înregistrează schimbările, cea care cerne realitatea, se străduiește să o transcrie și să-i dea un sens, cea care își negociază constant identitatea, în încercarea de a descoperi cine rămâne în afara rolurilor de fiică și de mamă și de a găsi un drum spre liman. (Eli Bădică, editoare)

Written in Romanian by Maria Orban

9 minutes read