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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

Sens unic

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu
Written in Dutch by Carmien Michels
10 minutes read

Manevră

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu
Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

Câteva minute în derivă

Written in Romanian by Cristina Vremes
8 minutes read

Fuga (Matematica unei crime)

Translated from Czech to Romanian by Andrei Săndulescu
Written in Czech by Magdalena Sodomková
10 minutes read

Dicţionarul Deţinutului

Translated from Italian to Romanian by Elena Damaschin
Written in Italian by Sara Micello
7 minutes read

Stația de epurare a apei

Translated from Czech to Romanian by Mircea Dan Duță
Written in Czech by Anna Háblová
11 minutes read

Orașul străin

Translated from Czech to Romanian by Mircea Dan Duță
Written in Czech by Anna Háblová
12 minutes read

Un înger

Written in Romanian by Anna Kalimar
9 minutes read

orașul de cioburi

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

Calcar

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Alexa Stoicescu
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
8 minutes read

Evoluția măselei

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Alexa Stoicescu
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
9 minutes read

Planul de rezervă

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Silvia Alexandra Ștefan
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
7 minutes read

Jurnalul unei portugheze în Angola

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

Venirea

Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă
5 minutes read

Nec mergitur

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu
Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

Jurnalul unei ultime zile

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu
Written in Dutch by Lotte Lentes
9 minutes read

Vocea Sulinei

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Andreea Bălteanu
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
7 minutes read

Pe șine

Translated from Bulgarian to Romanian by Maria Lupescu
Written in Bulgarian by Nevena Mitropolitska
11 minutes read

E OK

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Irina Kappelhof Costea
Written in Dutch by Aya Sabi
7 minutes read
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