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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

Bollettino dell’ultimo giorno

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Antonio De Sortis
Written in Dutch by Lotte Lentes
8 minutes read

Preparare un corpo

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
8 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Mangiamiele)

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Matilde Soliani
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
7 minutes read

Corridoio (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Matilde Soliani
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
8 minutes read

la città in frantumi

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Jessica Rostro Benigno
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
8 minutes read

Una città sconosciuta

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

TRE!

Translated from Czech to Italian by Marco Maria Baù
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
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

Il ragazzo con la testa di pesce

Translated from Czech to Italian by Marco Maria Baù
Written in Czech by Eliška Beranová
9 minutes read

Le siepi

Translated from Polish to Italian by Paola Pappalardo
Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska
12 minutes read

Constantin. Un ritratto

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Barbara Pavetto
Written in Romanian by Iulian Bocai
10 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

L’inizio e la sua eternità

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Jessica Rostro Benigno
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
9 minutes read

La generazione banana: sulla doppia vita dei cinesi dei Paesi Bassi oggi

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Jessica Rostro Benigno
Written in Dutch by Pete Wu
9 minutes read

Il silenzio viene prima

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Barbara Pavetto
Written in Romanian by Ioana Maria Stăncescu
10 minutes read

La ragazza che ascoltava gli uccelli

Translated from Slovenian to Italian by Lucia Gaja Scuteri
Written in Slovenian by Agata Tomažič
10 minutes read

E poi di nuovo, da capo

Translated from Serbian to Italian by Katarina Mitić
Written in Serbian by Filip Grujić
9 minutes read

Fine

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

Sinossi

Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
4 minutes read

Il raduno

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Andreaa David
Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă
9 minutes read
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