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Narandžaste zgrade

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

Žive meje

Translated from Polish to Slovenian by Sara Hočevar Mucić
Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska
10 minutes read

Pande parka Ueno

Translated from Italian to Serbian by Ana Popović
Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
12 minutes read

El silencio es lo primero

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Borja Mozo
Written in Romanian by Ioana Maria Stăncescu
9 minutes read

Le pecore stanno bene

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

Constantin

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Borja Mozo
Written in Romanian by Iulian Bocai
10 minutes read

Relámpagos

Translated from Italian to Spanish by Inés Sánchez Mesonero
Written in Italian by Sara Micello
8 minutes read

De levenden

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
8 minutes read

De familie Miralles

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Lies Doms
Written in Spanish by Kike Cherta
9 minutes read

W domu

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Olga Niziołek
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
6 minutes read

Er is nog land voorbij de Perekop

Translated from Ukranian to Dutch by Roman Nesterenco
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
12 minutes read

Vračajoč se domov

Translated from Italian to Slovenian by Martin Kastelic
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
8 minutes read

De denkbeeldige werelden van Edgar Kaos

Translated from Slovenian to Dutch by Marieke Haenebalcke
Written in Slovenian by Julija Lukovnjak
12 minutes read

En casa

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Daniela Martín Hidalgo
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
7 minutes read

Koridor (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Klára Němcová
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
7 minutes read

A ponte

Written in Portugese by João Valente
9 minutes read

Susret

Translated from Romanian to Serbian by Simona Popov
Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă
8 minutes read

Помаранчеві блоки

Translated from Spanish to Ukranian by Oleksandra Laktionova
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
7 minutes read

Podul

Translated from Portugese to Romanian by Simina Popa
Written in Portugese by João Valente
9 minutes read
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