Ta przeżuta krew

Translated from Italian to Polish by Amina Niepsuj-Wood

Written in Italian by Francesco Aloia

8 minutes read

Na putu do kuće

Translated from Italian to Serbian by Ana Popović

Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione

8 minutes read

Zveri

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Tamara Britka

Written in Dutch by Gijs Wilbrink

8 minutes read

Овцете са цели

Translated from Ukrainian to Bulgarian by Dayana Gocova

Written in Ukrainian by Eugenia Kuznetsova

5 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

Bilo je nekoč na Krimu

Translated from Ukrainian to Slovenian by Rina Pleteršek

Written in Ukrainian by Anastasia Levkova

9 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Ukrainian by Paulina-Ionela Onujec

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

6 minutes read

Maar het huis woont nog in mij

Written in Dutch by Maud Vanhauwaert

8 minutes read

In The End (Koniec)

Metaphysical and blasphemous novel about the tragedy of war that never meets a clean end with a peace treaty. The war goes on, residing within its victims who carry it from one generation to the next. Malwina, an exceptionally sensitive girl, experiences her grandmother’s wartime memories in her dreams. This makes her exist in two parallel realities at once: the 1940s Eastern borderlands and Siberia along the 1990s Poland. Those realities seep and bleed through one another, making Malwina a catcher of her survivor grandmother’s dreams, or perhaps a dybbuk who gives voice to the dead. To Malwina, the war persists, haunting her day and night alike. Poignant and piercing, Koniec is an impressively well-crafted prose.

Written in Polish by Marta Hermanowicz

10 minutes read

Spotkanie po latach

Translated from Romanian to Polish by Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev

Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă

8 minutes read

Живоплоти

Translated from Polish to Ukrainian by Julia Stakhivska

Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska

9 minutes read

Tornando a casa

Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione

8 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

orașul de cioburi

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Mădălina Balea

Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour

8 minutes read

Помаранчеві блоки

Translated from Spanish to Ukrainian by Oleksandra Laktionova

Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz

7 minutes read

Sraz

Translated from Romanian to Czech by Tereza Prymak

Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă

8 minutes read

Los Miralles

La primera novela de Kike Cherta parte de una premisa tan sugerente como original. Los Miralles, una atípica familia valenciana, están convencidos de que el manzano que crece en el patio de su alquería es de origen divino. De hecho, creen que es el mismísimo Árbol del Bien y del Mal que aparece en la Biblia, el mismo del que comieron Adán y Eva embaucados por una serpiente parlanchina. Desde hace generaciones, tienen una única misión: vigilarlo noche y día para que nadie vuelva a probar jamás del fruto prohibido. En este sorprendente debut, Kike Cherta indaga en las paradojas propias de cualquier tradición, en las siempre complejas dinámicas familiares y en la culpa asociada a las raíces. Envuelta en un aura mágica que casi no deja diferencias lo que es real de lo que es milagro, el libro se nutre de un punto medio ideal entre trascendencia y humor. Religión, familia e identidad se mezclan en una suerte de comedia negra profanamente bíblica.

Written in Spanish by Kike Cherta

9 minutes read

De zon als hij valt

Pols, pols, oog, pols. Een jongen is een jongen en een meisje is een meisje en een jongen. Jij bent een jongen en je moet altijd naar mij toe komen. Elke nacht opnieuw moet jij over het water varen in een half leeggelopen rubberboot en ik moet elke ochtend een vuur ontsteken op het hoogste flatgebouw van mijn stad. Zodat jij iets hebt om op af te varen. Ik ben het meisje dat moet blijven zitten waar ze zit. En jij bent de jongen die de zee probeert leeg te drinken. Allemaal voor de pols, allemaal voor het oog. Soms zijn de dingen in een verhaal belangrijker dan de personages die ze beheersen. "De zon als hij valt" gaat over de reis die een jongen, een meisje, een oog en een pols afleggen om samen te zijn. Uitgangspunt voor deze novelle zijn twee historische objecten: het glazen oog dat overbleef na een drone-aanval op terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar en de pols van een vrachtwagenchauffeur die werd teruggevonden na een verder allesverwoestende explosie op camping Los Alfaques in Spanje.

Written in Dutch by Joost Oomen

8 minutes read

Oranžni bloki

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Mojca Petaros

Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz

8 minutes read

Los setos

Translated from Polish to Spanish by Teresa Benítez

Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska

12 minutes read