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cihlové bloky

Translated from Spanish to Czech by Markéta Cubrová
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
7 minutes read

Оранжевите блокове

Translated from Spanish to Bulgarian by Ivana Peneva
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
8 minutes read

Žive meje

Translated from Polish to Slovenian by Sara Hočevar Mucić
Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska
10 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

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

Важка вода

Translated from Slovenian to Ukranian by Yuliia Stankevych
Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj
8 minutes read

Тази дъвкана кръв

Translated from Italian to Bulgarian by Brigitte Mancuso
Written in Italian by Francesco Aloia
9 minutes read

Fine

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

місто з уламків скла / розбите місто

Translated from Dutch to Ukranian by Larysa Dobra
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
7 minutes read

Záblesky

Translated from Italian to Czech by Monika Štefková
Written in Italian by Sara Micello
7 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Przyloty)

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Anna Opara
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
6 minutes read

Zawsze mieszkałyśmy w tej wiosce

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Katarzyna Górska
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
4 minutes read

Коридор (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Bulgarian by Elissaveta Manolova Maciel
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
7 minutes read

El chico con cabeza de pez

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Enrique Gutiérrez
Written in Czech by Eliška Beranová
11 minutes read

Три!

Translated from Czech to Ukranian by Olha-Anastasiia Futoran
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
7 minutes read

Constantin

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Borja Mozo
Written in Romanian by Iulian Bocai
10 minutes read

Volviendo a casa

Translated from Italian to Spanish by Inés Sánchez Mesonero
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
9 minutes read

W domu

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Olga Niziołek
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
6 minutes read

Tornando a casa

Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
8 minutes read

Pande parka Ueno

Translated from Italian to Serbian by Ana Popović
Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
12 minutes read
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