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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

Verboden de apen te voederen

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen
Written in Spanish by Roberto Osa
8 minutes read

Diario de un último día

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Irene de la Torre
Written in Dutch by Lotte Lentes
9 minutes read

La huida (Las matemáticas del crimen)

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Enrique Gutiérrez
Written in Czech by Magdalena Sodomková
11 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

Evoluce jednoho zubu

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Blanka Konečná
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
7 minutes read

Copac monstru copil copac

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Oana-Dana Balaş
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
9 minutes read

Zapiski za življenjepis Frances Donnell

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Katja Petrovec
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
5 minutes read

Szczerze mówiąc, kochanie, nic mnie to nie obchodzi

Translated from Czech to Polish by Agata Wróbel
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
7 minutes read

Pomarańczowe bloki

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Justyna Sterna
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
7 minutes read

Sens unic

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

Sulinin glas

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
6 minutes read

Het begin en zijn oneindigheid

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Jana Živkić
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
9 minutes read

Помаранчеві блоки

Translated from Spanish to Ukranian by Oleksandra Laktionova
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
7 minutes read

Reuniunea

Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă
9 minutes read

Vračajoč se domov

Translated from Italian to Slovenian by Martin Kastelic
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
8 minutes read

¡Tres!

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Enrique Gutiérrez
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
8 minutes read

I panda di Ueno

Translated from Italian to Spanish by Inés Sánchez Mesonero
Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
13 minutes read

La reunión

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Luciana Moisa
Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă
9 minutes read

Cómo acabaremos siendo menos

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Guillermo Briz
Written in Dutch by Rebekka de Wit
9 minutes read

Jutro

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