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Zatajena

Translated from Italian to Slovenian by Zarja Lampret Prešeren
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
9 minutes read

Thuis in het ijs

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Lies Doms
Written in Spanish by Montserrat Sánchez
9 minutes read

Il ghiaccio dei suoi

Villaggio di Nome, Alaska, 1921. Ada Blackjack, una giovane iñupiat, decide di affidare a un ospizio suo figlio Bennett, malato di tubercolosi, finché non troverà il modo di mantenerlo. Un’occasione le capita per caso: una nave proveniente da Seattle. A bordo ci sono quattro esploratori assetati di avventure e impregnati di fantasie coloniali, e insieme a loro la gatta Vic. Sono diretti all’isola di Wrangell – l’ultimo rifugio dei mammut – per annettere il territorio alla Confederazione Britannica. Prima di partire cercano una donna iñupiat che cucini e cucia per loro durante la traversata. È così che Ada, ignorando i presagi dello sciamano, si imbarca in una spedizione artica. Pochi mesi dopo tutti gli esploratori saranno morti e Ada dovrà sopravvivere da sola a Wrangell con l’unica compagnia di Vic. Per riuscirci dovrà assomigliare al Grande Nord e riappropriarsi della sua identità di donna iñupiat, sepolta da anni di colonialismo. Durante questa trasformazione affrontarerà le profondità del ghiaccio e di se stessa, la fame, la morte di Dio, l’orso – Nanuq –,e infine la possibilità di non tornare a Nome quando arriverà una nave in soccorso. A cosa le servirà salvare suo figlio se l’ordine coloniale non le permetterà mai di realizzarsi? Potrà essere una buona madre se tornando rischia la servitù? Il suo ritorno finale serve a far conoscere a Bennett la tenerezza e il ghiaccio della sua gente.
Translated from Spanish to Italian by Martino Gandi
Written in Spanish by Montserrat Sánchez
9 minutes read

Момчето с рибята глава

Translated from Czech to Bulgarian by Katerina Stoyanova
Written in Czech by Eliška Beranová
8 minutes read

Дні як дивні симптоми

Translated from Dutch to Ukrainian by Larysa Dobra
Written in Dutch by Leonieke Baerwaldt
8 minutes read

Automobil iz stare Grčke

Translated from Czech to Serbian by Uroš Nikolić
Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl
9 minutes read

Automobiel uit het oude Griekenland

Translated from Czech to Dutch by Annette Manni
Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl
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

Žive meje

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

Zawsze mieszkałyśmy w tej wiosce

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Katarzyna Górska
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
4 minutes read

Agua pesada

Translated from Slovenian to Spanish by David Heredero
Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj
10 minutes read

We hebben altijd in dit dorp gewoond

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Joep Harmsen
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
5 minutes read

La voce di Sulina

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Matilde Soliani
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
7 minutes read

Albero mostro bambino albero

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Valeria Parlato
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
9 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

Chlapec s rybí hlavou

Chlapec s rybí hlavou je lyrickým ponorem do bezejmenného českého maloměsta, skrznaskrz šedošedého, ubíjejícího ve své každodennosti a vyčpělých ideologiích. To vše velmi ostře vnímá protagonistka příběhu, která se do svého rodiště po letech vrací, aby se rozloučila s tragicky ztraceným přítelem z dětství. Pod zdánlivou fádností městských budov číhají temné a bytostně lidské momentky, uchopené specifickým a stylisticky výjimečným jazykem. V okolních lesích však cosi rozkvétá a pod hladinou řeky se odehrává milostný příběh 21. století, podaný bez patosu a stylizujících stereotypů.
Written in Czech by Eliška Beranová
7 minutes read

Samochód ze starożytnej Grecji

Translated from Czech to Polish by Agata Wróbel
Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl
9 minutes read

La sentenza

Two scoundrels were ordered to execute a snitch. Wandering through the mountains and villages, they are hunted by their past. A dreamlike parable set in a brutal world with characters grasped by their own fear.
Translated from Polish to Italian by Paola Pappalardo
Written in Polish by Ishbel Szatrawska
9 minutes read

Pohvala Uraganu

Translated from Spanish to Serbian by Ljubica Trošić
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
3 minutes read

Le siepi

Translated from Polish to Italian by Paola Pappalardo
Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska
12 minutes read
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