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Through the Rabbit Holes
Wander into magical realms and fantastical worlds where reality is constantly redefined or questioned
Renegata
Portasarlumea
Very Important Person
Cathedra sau cum se face frișca
Portretul
Chiar și dacă n-apuci să vezi decât o picătură
Natalya
Păsări care cântă viitorul
Am trăit în satul ăsta dintotdeauna
Garduri vii
Insula
Ortensio
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Elogiul uraganului
Băiatul cu cap de pește
Apă grea
Vocea Sulinei
Nu vreau să fiu un câine
Despre cai și demoni
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.