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Through the Rabbit Holes

Wander into magical realms and fantastical worlds where reality is constantly redefined or questioned

Een bom in de nacht die de bergen verlicht

Translated from Portugese to Dutch by Finne Anthonissen
Written in Portugese by Daniela Costa
8 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

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

Translated from Romanian to Bulgarian by Valentina Zlateva
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
7 minutes read

orașul de cioburi

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Mădălina Balea
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
8 minutes read

Alameda Zorilor: el comienzo

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Corina Oproae
Written in Romanian by Andrei Crăciun
9 minutes read

Non tutti andremo in paradiso

In una mano una lattina di birra bionda, nell’altra un rosario, una sigaretta in bocca, gli Aerosmith alla radio. Tre ragazze che provano qualcosa l’una per l’altra, in viaggio attraverso la Polonia di provincia a bordo di una sgangherata Opel. Una racconta alle altre della sua vita: della prima scuola, della prima amicizia e del primo amore. Il viaggio spirituale negli anni Novanta e Duemila intrapreso dalla narratrice di questo romanzo on the road si rivela in realtà un'analisi penetrante dell'identità di classe e di genere, ma anche un tentativo di descrivere il desiderio omoerotico: dapprima completamente represso dall’eteronormatività, poi espresso in piccoli gesti e baci, infine, apertamente dichiarato durante un viaggio in auto. La sua destinazione geografica è Radom, ma quella esistenziale: la trasgressione, l’affermazione e l’esperienza estatica della libertà.
Translated from Polish to Italian by Paola Pappalardo
Written in Polish by Olga Górska
10 minutes read

Sodba

Dva malopridneža morata po naročilu usmrtiti špiclja. Med vandranjem po gorah in vaseh ju preganja lastna preteklost. Parabola kot iz sanj, postavljena v brutalen svet, z liki, ki jih strah drži v svojem primežu.
Translated from Polish to Slovenian by Sara Hočevar Mucić
Written in Polish by Ishbel Szatrawska
8 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

Natalya

Translated from Portugese to Italian by Francesca Leotta
Written in Portugese by Valério Romão
5 minutes read

Scavi

Grondwerk [Scavi] (2025) esplora il cambiamento climatico e l’azione collettiva, tentando di rendere il mondo abitabile attraverso un linguaggio poetico e sensoriale. Nel romanzo, una talpa senza pelo viene inviata in missione dalla sua colonia nel Corno d’Africa in una piazza di Bruxelles. In attesa di istruzioni che tardano ad arrivare, la talpa osserva gli strani comportamenti degli Homo sapiens e inizia a scavare gallerie nelle viscere della città. Mentre Bruxelles si apre in voragini che frammentano l’infrastruttura del cuore politico dell’Europa, l’incontro e la crescente amicizia con un attivista per il clima conducono a una svolta inaspettata. Grondwerk è stato candidato al premio letterario Boekenbon ed è stato accolto positivamente dalla stampa belga e olandese.
Translated from Dutch to Italian by Matilde Soliani
Written in Dutch by Tijl Nuyts
9 minutes read

Міральєси

Translated from Spanish to Ukrainian by Oleksandra Laktionova
Written in Spanish by Kike Cherta
7 minutes read

Krimski roman

Translated from Ukrainian to Serbian by Dragana Vasilijević-Valent
Written in Ukrainian by Anastasia Levkova
8 minutes read

Niti

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Aleksandar Đokanović
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
7 minutes read

Notas sobre a vida de Frances Donnel

Translated from Spanish to Portugese by Miguel Martins
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
6 minutes read

Socavones

Grondwerk (2025) [«Socavones»] explora temas como el cambio climático, la acción colectiva y el intento de conseguir un mundo habitable mediante un lenguaje poético y sensorial. La protagonista, una rata topo desnuda, es enviada en una misión desde su colonia, en el Cuerno de África, a Bruselas. Mientras espera unas órdenes que no acaban de llegar, se empieza a interesar por las peculiaridades del Homo sapiens y comienza a cavar túneles en las entrañas de la capital europea. A medida que los agujeros se expanden por toda la ciudad, socavando la infraestructura política del corazón de Europa, una amistad entablada con una activista climática florece de una manera inesperada. Grondwerk fue recibida positivamente tanto por la prensa belga como por la neerlandesa y, en 2026, recibió el premio literario Boon Literatuurprijs a la mejor obra de ficción y de no ficción.
Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Pablo Martín Sánchez
Written in Dutch by Tijl Nuyts
10 minutes read

Os Pandas de Ueno

Translated from Italian to Portugese by Vasco Gato
Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
13 minutes read

Diário de uma portuguesa em Angola

Translated from Portugese to Polish by Gabriel Borowski
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
7 minutes read

Cu păsările am în comun cerul

Translated from Slovenian to Romanian by Paula Braga Šimenc
Written in Slovenian by Agata Tomažič
9 minutes read

24

Translated from Serbian to Romanian by Virginia Popovic
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
9 minutes read

Nie wszyscy pójdziemy do raju

“Not All of Us Will Go to Paradise” is an anti-road-trip and anti-coming-of-age novel. With effortless audacity and a keen awareness of its own genre boundaries, it portrays coming out as a journey—through memory, shame, class, religion, and the body. The narrator returns to the 1990s and early 2000s: to the world of VHS tapes and 00’s music, yet this cultural veneer crumbles beneath the weight of individual experience. With remarkable acuity, Górska reconstructs the landscape of Poland's post-transformation years, when the promise of a better life shaped both public imagination and private longing. It is a meditation on language itself: on how much it makes possible, how much it withholds, how deeply it can wound, and how ecstatically it can liberate. Górska is not writing a manifesto. She is writing about experience: sensual, painful, amusing, and shameful—and about a language that trembles, just as the body trembles. “Not All of Us Will Go to Paradise” is a hauntological expedition into the recent past, and a brilliant narrative reminding us that stepping out of the shadows does not always mean immediate salvation.
Written in Polish by Olga Górska
6 minutes read
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