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Odrzucona

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

Początek i jego nieskończoność

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Anna Opara
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
8 minutes read

I onda opet, iz početka

Centralni lik novog romana Filipa Grujića je pravi „junak našeg doba“, mladić na prelasku iz dvadesetih (kada se sve prašta i ništa nije konačno) u tridesete (kada sve postaje obavezujuće i ozbiljno), upravo izašao iz duge veze s nejasnom idejom šta želi od života.

Njegova svakodnevica rastrzana između porodice (razvedeni otac i majka, njihovi novi partneri i vremešni, ali vrlo živopisni roditelji), prijatelja, devojaka i obaveza, komične epizode, snažan autoironijski ton i bolno iskrena promišljanja o tome šta uopšte znači biti srećan u trećoj deceniji XXI veka, sve su to delovi kompleksne ali majstorski složene literarne slagalice koju bez preterivanja možemo nazvati prvim pravim, ozbiljnim milenijalskim romanom u srpskoj književnosti.

Filip Grujić posle dva zapažena romana kojima je nagovestio veliki književni talenat ovim delom sazreva u jednog od najboljih pripovedača koje naša književnost ima, prestaje da bude samo njena svetla budućnost i postaje važna i nezaobilazna sadašnjost.

Written in Serbian by Filip Grujić
8 minutes read

Renegata

Translated from Italian to Romanian by George Doru Ivan
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
9 minutes read

Tijd is een cirkel

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Jan Willem Bos
Written in Romanian by Andrei Crăciun
11 minutes read

Kalk

Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
8 minutes read

Pekel

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Ariela Herček
Written in Dutch by Aya Sabi
7 minutes read

Usazenina

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Blanka Konečná
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
7 minutes read

Iarna

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

Sęp płowy

Translated from Serbian to Polish by Patrycja Chajęcka
Written in Serbian by Filip Grujić
7 minutes read

Bajo el cielo de Crimea

Translated from Ukranian to Spanish by Alina Petryk
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
9 minutes read

Los bloques naranjas

Una ventana a la amistad masculina: la corporalidad y los afectos truncados, torpes, subterráneos, que se dan en una pandilla de chicos de barrio durante los 2000.

Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
8 minutes read

Přibližně v ten samý okamžik mě pohltilo město

Translated from Ukranian to Czech by Adéla Mikešová
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
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

In The End (Koniec)

Metaphysical and blasphemous novel about the tragedy of war that never meets a clean end with a peace treaty. The war goes on, residing within its victims who carry it from one generation to the next.

Malwina, an exceptionally sensitive girl, experiences her grandmother’s wartime memories in her dreams. This makes her exist in two parallel realities at once: the 1940s Eastern borderlands and Siberia along the 1990s Poland. Those realities seep and bleed through one another, making Malwina a catcher of her survivor grandmother’s dreams, or perhaps a dybbuk who gives voice to the dead. To Malwina, the war persists, haunting her day and night alike. Poignant and piercing, Koniec is an impressively well-crafted prose.

Written in Polish by Marta Hermanowicz
10 minutes read

За Перекопом є земля

Крим. Саме тут минуло дитинство, юність і перше кохання головної героїні роману. Саме тут вона зрозуміла, що є українкою. Ні дідусь-підполковник КДБ, ані російська кров у венах не стали цьому на заваді.

Наче орнамент, у романі переплітаються кримськотатарська культура і українська історія. На сторінках книжки читач зустрінеться з кримськими татарами, караїмами, українцями, росіянами, німцями, євреями, греками, вірменами Криму, крок за кроком відкриватиме шафи з родинними скелетами. Разом з головною героїнею та її подругою Аліє пройде шлях від їхнього дитинства – з 1990-х – аж до окупації півострова Росією в 2014-му, з екскурсами в давнішу історію Криму.

«За Перекопом є земля» — це спроба відкрити материк для півострова, а півострів для материка з незвичного ракурсу. Адже і там, і там є земля. Її варто пізнати й повернути їй цілісність.

Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
7 minutes read

Константин

Translated from Romanian to Bulgarian by Valentina Zlateva
Written in Romanian by Iulian Bocai
9 minutes read

Kraj

Translated from Polish to Serbian by Milica Kozić
Written in Polish by Marta Hermanowicz
12 minutes read

Le pecore stanno bene

Translated from Ukranian to Italian by Claudia Bettiol
Written in Ukranian by Eugenia Kuznetsova
6 minutes read

Tuje mesto

Translated from Czech to Slovenian by Vesna Dragar
Written in Czech by Anna Háblová
5 minutes read
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