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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

It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History (Măi, fetelor)

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

Jurnalul unei ultime zile

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

Chiar și dacă n-apuci să vezi decât o picătură

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu
Written in Dutch by Rebekka de Wit
9 minutes read

Eu nu mai locuiesc în casă, dar casa încă mai locuiește în mine

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu
Written in Dutch by Maud Vanhauwaert
7 minutes read

Sens unic

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

Mâine

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

În drum spre casă

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

Dilema umbrelei maro Prima uşă la dreapta Nimic

Written in Romanian by Anna Kalimar
9 minutes read

Very Important Person

Translated from Slovenian to Romanian by Paula Braga Šimenc
Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman
10 minutes read

Podul

Translated from Portugese to Romanian by Simina Popa
Written in Portugese by João Valente
9 minutes read

Cum vom rămâne mai puțini

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu
Written in Dutch by Rebekka de Wit
9 minutes read

Nu-i nimeni care să semene cu tine (Oameni zburători)

Translated from Slovenian to Romanian by Sergiu Lozinschi
Written in Slovenian by Ajda Bračič
8 minutes read

Însemnări pe marginea vieții lui Frances Donnell

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Silvia Alexandra Ștefan
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
6 minutes read

Orașul străin

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

Urșii panda din Ueno

Translated from Italian to Romanian by Elena Damaschin
Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
12 minutes read

Exilul

Written in Romanian by Anna Kalimar
7 minutes read

Sincer să fiu, draga mea, mă doare-n cot

Translated from Czech to Romanian by Mircea Dan Duță
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
9 minutes read

Un roman despre Crimeea

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

Jurnal

Translated from Slovenian to Romanian by Paula Braga Šimenc
Written in Slovenian by Mirt Komel
17 minutes read

Vocea Sulinei

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