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Time After Time

Explore or alter the physics, the histories and the inevitability of time

Tri!

Translated from Czech to Slovenian by Aleš Belšak
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
7 minutes read

Bekstvo (Matematika zločina)

Translated from Czech to Serbian by Jelena Đorđević
Written in Czech by Magdalena Sodomková
9 minutes read

Curling

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Lies Doms
Written in Spanish by Yaiza Berrocal
8 minutes read

По рейках

Translated from Bulgarian to Ukrainian by Khrystia Vengryniuk
Written in Bulgarian by Nevena Mitropolitska
9 minutes read

Имало едно време Крим

Translated from Ukrainian to Bulgarian by Dayana Gocova
Written in Ukrainian by Anastasia Levkova
8 minutes read

Viața e a mea (This Life is Mine)

Roman scris sub formă de policier, Viaţa e a mea descrie relaţiile dintre trei femei de provenienţă socială diferită: Angela Pop, galeristă (şi proaspătă mamă), Greta Roth, poliţist la Omucideri şi Carla [Razia], lucrătoare sexuală. Suferind de depresie postnatală, Angela resimte acut nevoia de control, nevoie care ia forma, finalmente, a unei instalaţii pe care protagonista o concepe, cu titlul „Viaţa e a mea”, dedicată fiicei sale, Eliza, şi surorii sale, Raisa. În planul ei intră Carla, pe care o întâlneşte întâmplător în una dintre ieşirile în oraş, şi un fost coleg de facultate, jurnalistul Lazăr Mitrea. Carla este, însă, şi iubita – pentru o scurtă perioadă de timp – a Gretei, poliţista desemnată să investigheze moartea suspectă a Angelei Pop. Diversele linii narative se ţes în jurul acestei dileme: este moartea Angelei omucidere sau sinucidere? Dacă este crimă, cine este vinovatul? Sunt mai mulţi complici? Suspecţii cazului devin toţi apropiaţii „victimei”. Suspiciunea şi tensiunea, narativă şi între personaje, se menţine până la final, când aflăm că Angela Pop instrumentase toate relaţiile pentru a-şi duce la bun sfârşit planul: instalaţia-manifest. Dorinţa de sinucidere şi semnele degradării psihice ale personajului sunt presărate de-a lungul romanului, însă ele nu duc direct la concluzia că aceasta ar fi fost opţiunea Angelei, aşa încât dilema crimă-sinucidere se menţine până la finalul cărţii. Viaţa e a mea deconstruieşte stereotipurile şi prejudecăţi legate de familie, de gen, de sexualitate sau de tulburări psihice. Romanul se încheie, astfel, cu un manifest care invită la reflecţie, acceptare, înţelegere şi empatie.
Written in Romanian by Emilia Faur
8 minutes read

La rinnegata

A story of three generations of women, their courage and search for independence in the face of superstition and prejudice, in the spirit of Natalia Ginzburg and Elena Ferrante. In this striking debut, based on a true story, Valeria Usala bears witness to an age-old story of violence against women and takes us into the heart of rural Sardinia, where superstitions and cruelty coexist with the joys and companionship of a tight-knit community. Teresa runs a shop and a tavern. But not even the family she has created with the man she loves can protect her from the malicious gossip of jealous locals, who are threatened by her independence. Her own mother, Maria, was made an outcast, and now Teresa is in turn forsaken by the villagers. Will she pay for her success with her life? Is she like a character in Greek tragedy, whose destiny is inevitable? A story that gives voice to the forgotten women of Sardinia—and to the one of women everywhere.
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
10 minutes read

Odrzucona

Translated from Italian to Polish by Amina Niepsuj-Wood
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
8 minutes read

По релсите

Старица се взира в миналото си: в безгрижното си детство, в последвалите го жълти звезди, във влака за Треблинка, очакващ я на кюстендилската гара през 43-та, в зрелостта си в народната република и в старостта си в наши дни. Петнайсетгодишната ѝ внучка се бори в Канада с предателството и самотата. Ще намерят ли двете път една към друга? Дали пренесените през десетилетията горчиви уроци ще послужат и днес? Това е историята на едно семейство – в нея има война, гонения и раздяла, но също воля за живот и любов.
Written in Bulgarian by Nevena Mitropolitska
9 minutes read

Ovce jsou celé

Translated from Ukrainian to Czech by Adéla Mikešová
Written in Ukrainian by Eugenia Kuznetsova
5 minutes read

Iarna

Translated from Ukrainian to Romanian by Jessica Bilcec
Written in Ukrainian by Eugenia Kuznetsova
5 minutes read

Grondwerk

Grondwerk [Groundwork] (2025) explores climate change, collective action and attempts to make the world habitable in poetic and sensory language. In the novel, a naked mole-rat is sent on a mission from her colony in the Horn of Africa to a square in Brussels. Waiting for a briefing that fails to arrive, she observes the curious ways of the homo sapiens and starts digging tunnels in Brussels’ underbelly. As sinkholes grow all over the city – fragmenting the infrastructure of the political heart of Europe – a meeting and growing friendship with a climate activist produces an unexpected twist. Grondwerk was shortlisted for the Boekenbon Literatuurprijs and very positively reviewed in the Belgian and Dutch press.
Written in Dutch by Tijl Nuyts
9 minutes read

La fuga (La matematica del crimine)

Translated from Czech to Italian by Marco Maria Baù
Written in Czech by Magdalena Sodomková
11 minutes read

Přibližně v ten samý okamžik mě pohltilo město

Translated from Ukrainian to Czech by Adéla Mikešová
Written in Ukrainian by Anastasia Levkova
8 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Serbian by Mirela Belada
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
7 minutes read

Las ovejas están bien

Translated from Ukrainian to Spanish by Alina Petryk
Written in Ukrainian by Eugenia Kuznetsova
5 minutes read

Zatajena

Translated from Italian to Slovenian by Zarja Lampret Prešeren
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
9 minutes read

Miasto odłamków

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Marta Talacha
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
6 minutes read

Město ze střepů

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Barbora Genserová
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
7 minutes read

Beg (Matematika zločina)

Translated from Czech to Slovenian by Aleš Belšak
Written in Czech by Magdalena Sodomková
9 minutes read
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