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Translated from Italian to Ukranian by Olena Roman

Гірка кров

Written in Italian by Francesco Aloia

Translated from Serbian to Czech by Věra Böhmová

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (Na podmínkách nezáleží)

Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk

5 minutes read

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (Условията не са важни)

Translated from Serbian to Bulgarian by Tsvetomira Mladenova

Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk

5 minutes read

Płastuga

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Olga Niziołek

Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Lut Caenen

O retrato

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

Translated from Spanish to Bulgarian by Ivana Peneva

Семейство Миралес

Written in Spanish by Kike Cherta

Translated from Romanian to Polish by Aleksander Podgórny

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

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

6 minutes read

Głos Suliny

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Marta Talacha

Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel

Translated from Italian to Romanian by George Doru Ivan

Renegata

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

Written in Dutch by Lotte Lentes

Logboek van een laatste dag

Translated from Italian to Polish by Amina Niepsuj-Wood

Ta przeżuta krew

Written in Italian by Francesco Aloia

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak

Sulinin glas

Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel

6 minutes read

Oranje blokken

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Lies Doms

Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Tina Jurman

črepinjasto mesto

Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour

Translated from Ukranian to Romanian by Jessica Bilcec

Un roman despre Crimeea

Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

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.