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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

Гласът на Сулина

Translated from Dutch to Bulgarian by Elissaveta Manolova Maciel
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
7 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

Žive ograde

Translated from Polish to Serbian by Milica Kozić
Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska
10 minutes read

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (Na podmínkách nezáleží)

Translated from Serbian to Czech by Věra Böhmová
Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk
5 minutes read

Głos Suliny

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Marta Talacha
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
8 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

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (De voorwaarden zijn niet belangrijk)

Translated from Serbian to Dutch by Lena van Tijen
Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk
6 minutes read

Bilo je nekoč na Krimu

Translated from Ukranian to Slovenian by Rina Pleteršek
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
9 minutes read

Een Oekraïens kerstverhaal

Translated from Ukranian to Dutch by Roman Nesterenco
Written in Ukranian by Eugenia Kuznetsova
6 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Polish by Aleksander Podgórny
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
6 minutes read

Non c’è nessuno come te (Soggetti in volo)

Translated from Slovenian to Italian by Giorgia Maurovich
Written in Slovenian by Ajda Bračič
8 minutes read

Vocea Sulinei

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Andreea Bălteanu
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
7 minutes read

Le siepi

Translated from Polish to Italian by Paola Pappalardo
Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska
12 minutes read

Цветове на лотос, които се затварят (когато влезеш в тях) (Пътят на перцепциониста)

Translated from Serbian to Bulgarian by Tsvetomira Mladenova
Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić
6 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

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet

Translated from Serbian to Polish by Patrycja Chajęcka
Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk
5 minutes read

Lotosové květy, které se zavírají (když se do nich vstoupí) (Cesta recepčního)

Translated from Serbian to Czech by Věra Böhmová
Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić
6 minutes read

La voz de Sulina

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Pablo Martín Sánchez
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
8 minutes read

Вівці цілі

Translated from Ukranian to Polish by Magdalena Ukrainets
Written in Ukranian by Eugenia Kuznetsova
4 minutes read

Krimski roman

Translated from Ukranian to Serbian by Dragana Vasilijević-Valent
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
8 minutes read
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