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Meervoudig

Translated from Polish to Dutch by Małgosia Briefjes
Written in Polish by Barbara Woźniak
13 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

Тихо!

Translated from Dutch to Ukrainian by Larysa Dobra
Written in Dutch by Marjolein Visser
8 minutes read

Presuda

Dvojici pokvarenjaka naloženo je da pogube cinkaroša. Dok tumaraju planinama i selima, za petama im je vlastita prošlost. Ovo je onirička parabola smeštena u surovi svet, u kojoj strah gospodari sudbinama junaka.
Translated from Polish to Serbian by Milica Kozić
Written in Polish by Ishbel Szatrawska
8 minutes read

Wracając do domu

Translated from Italian to Polish by Mateusz Kłodecki
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
7 minutes read

Hydro

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen
Written in Spanish by Matías Candeira
12 minutes read

Toată dragostea dintr-o fotografie arsă (All the Love in a Burnt Photograph)

Toată dragostea dintr-o fotografie arsă pune reflectorul pe relația a trei generații de femei, care înțeleg lumea în moduri aproape incompatibile unul cu celălalt. Familia și echilibrul ei precar sunt zdruncinate de internarea bruscă a celei mai vârstnice dintre ele. Fricile paralizante capătă contur în apropierea morții iminente. Mecanismele lor de apărare, mai ales felurile în care fiecare parazitează viața celeilalte, în numele datoriei și al iubirii materne, ies la suprafață. Iar Leia, aflată la mijlocul distanței este cea care înregistrează schimbările, cea care cerne realitatea, se străduiește să o transcrie și să-i dea un sens, cea care își negociază constant identitatea, în încercarea de a descoperi cine rămâne în afara rolurilor de fiică și de mamă și de a găsi un drum spre liman. (Eli Bădică, editoare)
Written in Romanian by Maria Orban
9 minutes read

Sodba

Dva malopridneža morata po naročilu usmrtiti špiclja. Med vandranjem po gorah in vaseh ju preganja lastna preteklost. Parabola kot iz sanj, postavljena v brutalen svet, z liki, ki jih strah drži v svojem primežu.
Translated from Polish to Slovenian by Sara Hočevar Mucić
Written in Polish by Ishbel Szatrawska
8 minutes read

Een gelukkig einde

Translated from Serbian to Dutch by Pavle Trkulja
Written in Serbian by Jasna Dimitrijević
10 minutes read

El Corredor (Península)

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Pablo Martín Sánchez
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
8 minutes read

orașul de cioburi

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Mădălina Balea
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
8 minutes read

Ontbijt voor dameskampioenen

Translated from Slovenian to Dutch by Marieke Haenebalcke
Written in Slovenian by Liu Zakrajšek
11 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

Verwrongen

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen
Written in Spanish by Matías Candeira
8 minutes read

Manevră

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu
Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

La generación de los plátanos: sobre la doble vida de los holandeses chinos de hoy

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Beatriz Jiménez
Written in Dutch by Pete Wu
10 minutes read

Район 24

Translated from Serbian to Ukrainian by Maksimu Andre Martynenko Shchehlov
Written in Serbian by Boris Džinić
8 minutes read

Aleea Zorilor: începutul

Written in Romanian by Andrei Crăciun
8 minutes read

Lotosové květy, které se zavírají (když se do nich vstoupí) (Cesta recepčního)

Translated from Serbian to Czech by Věra Böhmová
Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić
6 minutes read

Една истинска къща

Облекчението, което Ернест изпитва, когато баща му се самоубива, ще трае съвсем кратко. Скоро той ще открие, че раните от миналото му, онези, които е смятал за забравени, са по-отворени от всякога. Възможността да живее в „истинска къща“, както той нарича дома, който наследява, съживява желанието, което го съпътства още от детството: да създаде идеалното семейство. Въпреки това неспособността му да разбере майка си и съпругата си, които настояват да поемат контрола над живота си, постоянното влияние на баща му и появата на стара любов ще разклатят основите на настоящето му – онези, върху които Ернест възнамерява да изгради новата си идилична реалност. Както дълбоката и съвременна тематика, така и дозата хумор карат „Една истинска къща“ да се откроява като роман с нарастващо психологическо напрежение, който е едновременно близък и динамичен.
Translated from Spanish to Bulgarian by Ivana Peneva
Written in Spanish by Ianire Doistua
9 minutes read
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