La voce di Sulina

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Matilde Soliani

Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel

7 minutes read

Portret

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Ariela Herček

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

6 minutes read

Het portret

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

7 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Barbara Pavetto

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

8 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Serbian by Mirela Belada

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

7 minutes read

Pochwała huraganu

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Katarzyna Górska

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano

3 minutes read

Ortensio

Translated from Italian to Romanian by Nicoleta Iolanda Rus

Written in Italian by Maurizio Amendola

3 minutes read

Le siepi

Translated from Polish to Italian by Paola Pappalardo

Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska

12 minutes read

Un’automobile dell’antica Grecia

Translated from Czech to Italian by Elena Zuccolo

Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl

12 minutes read

Žive ograde

Translated from Polish to Serbian by Milica Kozić

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

Teška voda

Translated from Slovenian to Serbian by Jelena Ivanišević

Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj

9 minutes read

Elogio do Furacão

Translated from Spanish to Portugese by Miguel Martins

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano

4 minutes read

Zatajena

Translated from Italian to Slovenian by Zarja Lampret Prešeren

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

9 minutes read

Il ritratto

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Francesco Panzeri

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

6 minutes read

Samochód ze starożytnej Grecji

Translated from Czech to Polish by Agata Wróbel

Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl

9 minutes read

Portret

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Ewa Dynarowicz

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

5 minutes read

Відступниця

Translated from Italian to Ukranian by Olena Roman

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

8 minutes read

Automobil iz stare Grčke

Translated from Czech to Serbian by Uroš Nikolić

Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl

9 minutes read

C'era una volta in Crimea

Translated from Ukranian to Italian by Claudia Bettiol

Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova

11 minutes read