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Město ze střepů

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Barbora Genserová
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
7 minutes read

Planul de rezervă

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Silvia Alexandra Ștefan
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
7 minutes read

¡Tres!

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Enrique Gutiérrez
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
8 minutes read

Lungo i binari

Translated from Bulgarian to Italian by Giorgia Spadoni
Written in Bulgarian by Nevena Mitropolitska
10 minutes read

La depuradora

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Daniel Ordóñez Franco
Written in Czech by Anna Háblová
11 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Serbian by Mirela Belada
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
7 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Ukranian by Paulina-Ionela Onujec
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
6 minutes read

Wracając do domu

Translated from Italian to Polish by Mateusz Kłodecki
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
7 minutes read

Een Oekraïens kerstverhaal

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

Tapioka

Translated from Portugese to Slovenian by Maruša Fakin
Written in Portugese by Daniela Costa
8 minutes read

Het tapiocapuddinkje

Translated from Portugese to Dutch by Finne Anthonissen
Written in Portugese by Daniela Costa
9 minutes read

Het is oké

Written in Dutch by Aya Sabi
7 minutes read

Curling

Translated from Spanish to Czech by Markéta Cubrová
Written in Spanish by Yaiza Berrocal
7 minutes read

Iskreno, draga, baš me briga

Translated from Czech to Serbian by Uroš Nikolić
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
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

Un roman despre Crimeea

Translated from Ukranian to Romanian by Jessica Bilcec
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
9 minutes read

Zítra

Translated from Portugese to Czech by Štěpánka Huláková
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
7 minutes read

Promeniti zamisao

Translated from Spanish to Serbian by Ljubica Trošić
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
6 minutes read

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

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
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