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Should I Stay or Should I Go

Take a journey through the tension between staying and leaving, journeys of personal growth and travelogues

Curling

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Ilinca Gângă
Written in Spanish by Yaiza Berrocal
8 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

La fuga (La matematica del crimine)

Translated from Czech to Italian by Marco Maria Baù
Written in Czech by Magdalena Sodomková
11 minutes read

Kilka miesięcy później

Translated from Slovenian to Polish by Joanna Borowy
Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman
8 minutes read

Diário de uma Portuguesa em Angola

Translated from Portugese to Italian by Elisa Rossi
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
8 minutes read

Cambiar de idea

Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
7 minutes read

În drum spre casă

Translated from Italian to Romanian by Elena Damaschin
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
8 minutes read

Mudar de ideias

Translated from Spanish to Portugese by Miguel Martins
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
7 minutes read

Glosariusz osadzonego

Translated from Italian to Polish by Mateusz Kłodecki
Written in Italian by Sara Micello
6 minutes read

Pastel de tapioca

Translated from Portugese to Spanish by Sara De Albornoz Domínguez
Written in Portugese by Daniela Costa
9 minutes read

De panda's van Ueno

Translated from Italian to Dutch by Sandra Verhulst
Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
14 minutes read

Iskreno, draga, baš me briga

Translated from Czech to Serbian by Uroš Nikolić
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
7 minutes read

Ta przeżuta krew

Translated from Italian to Polish by Amina Niepsuj-Wood
Written in Italian by Francesco Aloia
8 minutes read

Diário de uma Portuguesa em Angola

Translated from Portugese to Serbian by Tamina Šop
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
7 minutes read

Maar het huis woont nog in mij

Written in Dutch by Maud Vanhauwaert
8 minutes read

Ta prežvečena kri

Translated from Italian to Slovenian by Zarja Lampret Prešeren
Written in Italian by Francesco Aloia
9 minutes read

Bubblegum Blues

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Guillermo Briz
Written in Dutch by Carmien Michels
9 minutes read

Domani

Translated from Portugese to Italian by Elisa Rossi
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
8 minutes read

Вівці цілі

Translated from Ukranian to Polish by Magdalena Ukrainets
Written in Ukranian by Eugenia Kuznetsova
4 minutes read

Отхвърлената

Translated from Italian to Bulgarian by Brigitte Mancuso
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
9 minutes read
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