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C'era una volta in Crimea

Translated from Ukranian to Italian by Claudia Bettiol
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
11 minutes read

L’esilio

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Maria Alampi
Written in Romanian by Anna Kalimar
8 minutes read

La cercacose: 44 (in)consueti oggetti da vicino e lontano

Come suggerisce il sottotitolo, il libro La cercacose contiene storie su 44 oggetti da vicino e lontano. La curiosa e variegata selezione, ordinata per temi, comprende sorprendenti chicche da tutto il mondo: stivali che arrivano dal Bhutan, mattonelle dai marciapiedi di Barcellona disegnate da Gaudí, bicchieri da vino dai Paesi Baschi, una spilla a forma di cuore da Sarajevo, espradrillas dai Pirenei, scarabei dall’antico Egitto, contenitori della spazzatura da New York, un pezzo del telo arancione proveniente dai The Floating Piers sul lago d’Iseo, un tintinnante drago sloveno, una mappa di Berlino Est e molti altri. Raccontando le storie di oggetti concreti, Ekaterina Petrova in realtà racconta anche dei luoghi da dove provengono – Küstendorf е Kathmandu, Lubiana e Louisiana, Belvedere e Bilbao, Selçuk e Central park – ponendoli contemporaneamente in un più ampio contesto linguistico, storico, antropologico e geografico. Astuta miscela fra diari di viaggio, saggi e racconti, i testi sono attentamente documentati e intessuti di aneddoti curiosi, ma inframmezzati dallo sguardo soggettivo dell’autrice, così come dalla sua personale biografia di viaggiatrice, traduttrice e cercacose. Elaborato artisticamente dall’occhio estetico di Lyuba Haleva, una delle più eminenti illustratrici bulgare contemporanee, l’impostazione grafica del libro è superba e con umorismo coglie l’anima e l’umore delle storie. In questo modo anche il libro stesso diventa un bell’oggetto carico di piacere e gioia, da leggere e rileggere, da avere e regalare.

Translated from Bulgarian to Italian by Giorgia Spadoni
Written in Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova
10 minutes read

Elogio dell’uragano

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
4 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

Lieto fine

Translated from Serbian to Italian by Sara Latorre
Written in Serbian by Jasna Dimitrijević
9 minutes read

I mondi immaginari di Edgar Kaos

Translated from Slovenian to Italian by Giorgia Maurovich
Written in Slovenian by Julija Lukovnjak
11 minutes read

Di me non sai

Lucio falls in love with "the boy" even before meeting him: just watching him from the window of his office is enough for him to become almost obsessed. When they finally meet, he discovers that Davide is much younger than him (still studying), and that he is elusive, unreliable, and "cruel" in the way only twenty-year-olds can be cruel.

For two months, Lucio and Davide have dinner together, have sex, go to the beach, and often sleep at Lucio's place. However, Davide does not fall in love. He continues to seek Lorenzo, the only man he (perhaps) truly loved, of whom he keeps only a pixelated photo on an old cellphone. Like many twenty-year-olds, he is also confused, wounded, and willing to nestle into the routine of always having a Coca-Cola ready for him in the refrigerator.

"Di me non sai" tells the story of a relationship lived in an opposite, incompatible way, whose nature is revealed to the reader only as the novel progresses. Alternating the perspectives of the two protagonists in short, sometimes very short chapters, Raffaele Cataldo shows the misalignment of feelings and the painful consequences it can have, the slow pace of hot Apulian summers, and the obsessive loves (present and absent) that, like wild oat seeds, cling to hair, shoes, and clothes.

Written in Italian by Raffaele Cataldo
4 minutes read

Nemmeno un minuto Portasar

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Maria Alampi
Written in Romanian by Cătălin Pavel
9 minutes read

Fine

Translated from Polish to Italian by Paola Pappalardo
Written in Polish by Marta Hermanowicz
14 minutes read

La tapioca

Translated from Portugese to Italian by Elisa Rossi
Written in Portugese by Daniela Costa
9 minutes read

E dieci dita più in là

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Antonio De Sortis
Written in Dutch by Joost Oomen
9 minutes read

La trilogia del sesso errante

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Andreaa David
Written in Romanian by Cristina Vremes
9 minutes read

La fanciulla morte

Translated from Czech to Italian by Elena Zuccolo
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
10 minutes read

Idro (estratto di un romanzo)

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Valeria Parlato
Written in Spanish by Matías Candeira
11 minutes read

Il depuratore

Translated from Czech to Italian by Elena Zuccolo
Written in Czech by Anna Háblová
11 minutes read

Una città sconosciuta

Translated from Czech to Italian by Elena Zuccolo
Written in Czech by Anna Háblová
12 minutes read

Distorti

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Valeria Parlato
Written in Spanish by Matías Candeira
7 minutes read

Dizionario del Detenuto

Written in Italian by Sara Micello
7 minutes read

Un ronzio

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Andreaa David
Written in Romanian by Lavinia Braniște
9 minutes read
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