Dingenzoeker: 44 (on)gewone objecten van dichtbij en veraf

Verhalen over verrassende vondsten uit de hele wereld: laarzen uit Bhutan, stoeptegels uit Barcelona naar ontwerp van Gaudí, wijnglazen uit Baskenland, een broche uit Sarajevo, espadrilles uit de Pyreneeën, scarabeeën uit het oude Egypte, een doos met afval uit New York, een kaart van Oost-Berlijn, en nog veel meer. Ekaterina Petrova vertelt over de plaatsen waar ze vandaan komen en geeft ze een bredere culturele, historische en antropologische context. Haar persoonlijke ervaringen als reiziger, vertaler en non-fictieschrijver klinken er steevast in door. De vormgeving, door een van Bulgarijes opmerkelijkste hedendaagse illustratoren, geeft op prachtige en humoristische wijze de sfeer van de teksten weer. Een boek om te lezen en te herlezen, om te hebben en om weg te geven.

Translated from Bulgarian to Dutch by Justin Van Heddegem

Written in Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova

9 minutes read

Lotosovi cvetovi, ki se zapirajo (ko se vanje stopi) (Pot perceptorja)

Translated from Serbian to Slovenian by Natalija Milovanović

Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić

6 minutes read

Tijdmeters in de oudheid

Translated from Italian to Dutch by Lies Lavrijsen

Written in Italian by Fabio Guidetti

9 minutes read

Bestie voi tutte dei campi

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings

8 minutes read

Un roman despre Crimeea

Translated from Ukranian to Romanian by Jessica Bilcec

Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova

9 minutes read

Ik was het nooit, Maar ben het nu wel. Gevoelig voor elke Weersverandering.

Translated from Serbian to Dutch by Pavle Trkulja

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

11 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

Pochwała huraganu

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Katarzyna Górska

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano

3 minutes read

L’Impero romano in 100 date

Written in Italian by Fabio Guidetti

8 minutes read

Automobiel uit het oude Griekenland

Translated from Czech to Dutch by Annette Manni

Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl

11 minutes read

La voce di Sulina

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Matilde Soliani

Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel

7 minutes read

Hiša v Hajfi

Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman

15 minutes read

Elogiul uraganului

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Silvia Alexandra Ștefan

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano

4 minutes read

El automóvil de la Antigua Grecia

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Daniel Ordóñez Franco

Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl

11 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

Il tempo è un cerchio

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Maria Alampi

Written in Romanian by Andrei Crăciun

10 minutes read

Fotelj

Translated from Romanian to Slovenian by Lara Potočnik

Written in Romanian by Lavinia Braniște

9 minutes read

Nisem bila, vendar zdaj sem. Občutljiva na vsako spremembo vremena.

Translated from Serbian to Slovenian by Natalija Milovanović

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

8 minutes read

Flores de loto que se cierran (cuando en ellas se entra) (Put percepcionera )

Translated from Serbian to Spanish by Miguel Alonso

Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić

8 minutes read

N-am fost, dar acum sunt. Sensibilă la fiecare schimbare a vremii

Translated from Serbian to Romanian by Virginia Popovic

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

9 minutes read