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

Translated from Romanian to Czech by Klára Našincová
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
6 minutes read

De stem van Sulina

Een lyrische roman over de geboorte van een moeder, zwervende zielen en de ziel van het zwerven, geschreven met de stuwende kracht van een wereldrivier.

Terwijl een donkere schaduw over de weerkaarten van Midden-Europa glijdt, reist een vrouw in een busje langs de oevers van de Donau, van de bron in het Zwarte Woud tot de monding in de Zwarte Zee. Welke stemmen stijgen op uit de rivier?
Archeologische opgravingen en eeuwenoude verhalen, confronterende vragen en dromen, lichamelijke transformaties en vergeten vrouwen geven richting aan de mentale reis van een jonge schrijfster die moeder wordt.

Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
7 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

Medsočje

Translated from Slovenian to Spanish by Xavier Farré
Written in Slovenian by Mirt Komel
10 minutes read

Sulinin glas

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Tamara Britka
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
7 minutes read

La voz de Sulina

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Pablo Martín Sánchez
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
8 minutes read

O Dilema do Guarda-Chuva Castanho Primeira Porta à Direita Nada

Translated from Romanian to Portugese by Simion Doru Cristea
Written in Romanian by Anna Kalimar
8 minutes read

Lotusbloemen die sluiten (als je ze binnen gaat) (De weg van de waarnemer)

Translated from Serbian to Dutch by Lena van Tijen
Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić
8 minutes read

Немає нікого схожого на тебе (Летючі люди)

Translated from Slovenian to Ukranian by Yuliia Stankevych
Written in Slovenian by Ajda Bračič
7 minutes read

Amanhã

Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
8 minutes read

Ovce su na broju

Translated from Ukranian to Serbian by Dragana Vasilijević-Valent
Written in Ukranian by Eugenia Kuznetsova
5 minutes read

Un roman despre Crimeea

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

Mâine

Translated from Portugese to Romanian by Iolanda Vasile
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
8 minutes read

Il raduno

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Andreaa David
Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă
9 minutes read

La reunión

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Luciana Moisa
Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă
9 minutes read

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (Las condiciones no son importantes)

Translated from Serbian to Spanish by Miguel Alonso
Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk
6 minutes read

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (I presupposti non contano)

Translated from Serbian to Italian by Katarina Mitić
Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk
6 minutes read

Jutri

Translated from Portugese to Slovenian by Maruša Fakin
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
8 minutes read

Nie ma nikogo, kto byłby do ciebie podobny

Translated from Slovenian to Polish by Aleksandra Wójcik
Written in Slovenian by Ajda Bračič
7 minutes read

Very Important Person

Translated from Slovenian to Czech by Kateřina Honsová
Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman
8 minutes read
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