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Caseggiati arancioni

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

Невидимі

«Невидимі» –– роман про неприйняття інакшості, у якому діти вигадують своїх батьків. Молода жінка, яка виросла в Дитбудинку, намагається подолати травми дитинства. Після низки розлук вона зустрічає Дару –– покинуту дитину, в якій упізнає маленьку себе. Прив’язується до неї й вирішує, що будь-якою ціною знайде спосіб подарувати їй життя, якого вона сама ніколи не мала. Це роман про людей із периферії суспільства. Різні сюжетні лінії переплітаються, щоб розповісти одну спільну історію: про невидимість.
Translated from Bulgarian to Ukrainian by Khrystia Vengryniuk
Written in Bulgarian by Nataliya Deleva
9 minutes read

Sutra

Translated from Portugese to Serbian by Tamina Šop
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
7 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

Jutro

Translated from Portugese to Polish by Gabriel Borowski
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
7 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Medar)

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
6 minutes read

Synopsis

Translated from Italian to Dutch by Sandra Verhulst
Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
5 minutes read

Začátek a jeho nekonečnost

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Barbora Genserová
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
8 minutes read

Bogomolka

Mia je stara 27 let in vsak dan gleda najslabše na svetu: dela kot moderatorka vsebin in mora cenzurirati najnasilnejše posnetke, ki krožijo po spletu. Odkar je njen bivši fant Ruben umrl, ko ga je v banji stresla elektrika, živi v začaranem krogu nihilizma in očitkov, otopela zaradi službe in zdravil, samo občasno pa jo poživi prijateljstvo z Dennisom in Miriam. Preteklost z Rubenom je arhiv krutih spominov, kakršne so tudi podobe, ki jih mora odstraniti s spleta, a jih ne more izbrisati iz spomina: čustveno izsiljevanje, ko jo obtožuje, da ga požira kot bogomolka, in strah pred tem, da bi ga zapustila. Ko pa naleti na posnetek Sofie, dekleta, ki ji je podobno in ki se vrže z mosta, se Mia zdrzne in poda po njenih stopinjah: sreča njenega fanta Lapa, obetavnega glasbenika, in prijateljico Margot, spremljevalko in plesalko v nočnem klubu, in obema se pusti zapeljati v vrtincu ogledal. Vse dokler se Mia, z Miriam in Margot, ne odloči za alternativo, za sestrski pakt izven okvirjev, ki bo uspel zlomiti lupino njene bolečine. Bogomolka opisuje pot mlade ženske, ki se zoperstavlja izgubi in samoti ter se upira podedovanemu občutku ženske krivde, da bi se pognala naprej, proti svetlobi prihodnje različice sebe.
Translated from Italian to Slovenian by Zarja Lampret Prešeren
Written in Italian by Cecilia Rita
8 minutes read

Toate fiarele de pe câmp

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Silvia Alexandra Ștefan
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
8 minutes read

Manobra

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Xénon Cruz
Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

Apă grea

Translated from Slovenian to Romanian by Sergiu Lozinschi
Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj
10 minutes read

Hou je stil

“Een verdwijning van een van ons haalt het nieuws niet, omdat het geen nieuws is. De rest van de wereld denkt niet aan je – niet als ze jouw coke snuiven, niet als ze de kleding dragen die jij maakte, niet als ze je hun land uitzetten.” Dit is het verhaal over de uit Mexico gevluchte Alex, een teruggetrokken jongen die stage loopt op een Nederlandse universiteit en probeert te redden wat er te redden valt. Om te leven moet hij praten, om te overleven juist niet. Hou je stil is een meeslepende roman over dichte grenzen en grenzeloze moed, over de kracht van taal en het troebele onderscheid tussen daders en slachtoffers. Alle personages in dit boek zijn verzonnen. De feiten niet. Het boek is gebaseerd op jarenlang onderzoek en verhalen van mensen met ervaring met vluchten of uitgezet worden, mensen werkzaam in asielrecht, docenten van verschillende (Mexicaanse) universiteiten, traumapsychologen, mensenrechtenactivisten, journalisten, ondergedoken mensen, en slachtoffers en daders van kartel/bendegeweld. Het verhaal schijnt licht op de impact van (internationale) overheden op individuen alsook op drugs gerelateerd en seksueel geweld. Ook legt dit aangrijpende verhaal de complexe relatie bloot tussen ‘drugslanden’ zoals Mexico en Europa: een continent dat haar grenzen steeds meer optrekt voor asielzoekers en tegelijkertijd een grote cocaïnedoorvoerder en – gebruiker is.
Written in Dutch by Marjolein Visser
9 minutes read

Presiune

Translated from Portugese to Romanian by Iolanda Vasile
Written in Portugese by Luis Brito
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

Narandžaste zgrade

Translated from Spanish to Serbian by Irena Selaković
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
8 minutes read

Días con síntomas extraños

Sísifo deambula por el infierno con una silla de ruedas vacía y no sabe muy bien qué hace allí, salvo que tiene que recoger a su hija, quien padece múltiples discapacidades, del centro de día. Se trata de una misión que fracasa una y otra vez, tras lo cual regresa decepcionada al destartalado piso de la planta baja de un excéntrico complejo de apartamentos. Cuando su casera, aparentemente de la nada, entabla conversación con ella, Sísifo empieza a recordar ciertas cosas.
Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Beatriz Jiménez
Written in Dutch by Leonieke Baerwaldt
9 minutes read

Všechny dobré barbíny

Translated from Serbian to Czech by Věra Böhmová
Written in Serbian by Katarina Mitrović
10 minutes read

Nevidni

Nevidni je roman o zavračanju drugačnih, v katerem otroci predstavljajo svoje starše. Mlada ženska, odrasla v Domu za osirotele otroke, poskuša premagati svoje travme iz otroštva. Po vrsti ločitev sreča Daro, siroto, v kateri prepozna sebe kot otroka. Naveže se nanjo in se odloči, da bo za vsako ceno našla način, da ji bo omogočila življenje, kakršnega sama nikoli ni bila deležna. Gre za roman o ljudeh z družbenega roba. V njem se prepletajo različne pripovedne linije, ki vse pripovedujejo skupno zgodbo o nevidnosti. »Roman o ljudeh z družbenega roba, ki vas pusti brez besed.« Georgi Gospodinov, avtor romanov Fizika žalosti in Časovno zaklonišče »Le malokdo je sposoben brez kančka pretencioznosti poustvariti življenja tistih, ki so izkusili dom za zapuščene otroke, še posebej v času prehoda, njihove nadaljnje usode. Pravzaprav je, bolj splošno gledano, vsak od nas zapuščen otrok, toda tisti, o katerih pripoveduje avtorica, so resnično nevidni na družbenem zemljevidu. Natalija Deleva jim z obrazov odstrani vse klišeje, s katerimi smo jih obtežili. Težka, pomembna, resnično pomembna knjiga.« Marin Bodakov, Kultura “The narrator in Four Minutes (Невидими) collates excerpts from news articles, listens to her own (internal) voice, to the stories of people she meets on the way, looks into the past, confronts traumas and, pulling the reader out of their comfort zone, asks important questions about our world, about life in exile, about people who are excluded, abandoned, homeless. A beautiful, intricately woven and exciting book.” Wioletta Greg, author of Swallowing Mercury
Translated from Bulgarian to Slovenian by Maja Kovač
Written in Bulgarian by Nataliya Deleva
10 minutes read

Preparirati telo

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Nika Štrovs
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read
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