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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

Árvore Monstro Menino Árvore

Translated from Spanish to Portugese by Matias Gomes
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
9 minutes read

Bestie voi tutte dei campi

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
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

Manoeuvre

Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 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

Mirallesovi

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Mojca Petaros
Written in Spanish by Kike Cherta
7 minutes read

Iskreno, draga, baš me briga

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

Em casa

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Lut Caenen
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
7 minutes read

Ja nie chcę być psem

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Olga Niziołek
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
6 minutes read

De Dageraadlaan: het begin

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Jan Willem Bos
Written in Romanian by Andrei Crăciun
10 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

Vse zveri z vasi

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

O bombă luminează noaptea din Marão

Translated from Portugese to Romanian by Iolanda Vasile
Written in Portugese by Daniela Costa
8 minutes read

A Alameda do Amanhecer

Translated from Romanian to Portugese by Simion Doru Cristea
Written in Romanian by Andrei Crăciun
8 minutes read

Un ronzio

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

Hvalnica orkanu

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Katja Petrovec
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
3 minutes read

Abbiamo sempre vissuto in questo paese

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
5 minutes read

Un roman despre Crimeea

Translated from Ukranian to Romanian by Jessica Bilcec
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
9 minutes read
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