Esmeralda

Translated from Portugese to Dutch by Finne Anthonissen

Written in Portugese by Luis Brito

7 minutes read

De beesten

‘Ik wil niet veel zeggen, maar volgens mij ging het al mis met Tom Keller toen die twee ooms hem ’s nachts meenamen naar het bos en hem dingen lieten doen die een jongen van negen nog lang niet zou moeten doen.’ Zo begint De beesten, het romandebuut van Gijs Wilbrink. Het speelt zich af in de Achterhoek, te midden van motoren, stropers, nertsenfokkerijen en handeltjes die het daglicht niet kunnen verdragen. In dit mystieke grensland vol geheimen groeit Tom Keller op, jongste telg van de beruchtste familie van de streek, en gezegend met een van God gegeven talent voor de motocross. Als hij jaren later plotseling verdwijnt, komt zijn opstandige dochter terug naar haar geboortegrond om hem te zoeken, met een dramatische familiereünie tot gevolg.

Written in Dutch by Gijs Wilbrink

9 minutes read

Calcare

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani

Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda

8 minutes read

Preparare un corpo

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani

Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker

8 minutes read

Le bugie si accumulano in fretta

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Antonio De Sortis

Written in Dutch by Carmien Michels

8 minutes read

črepinjasto mesto

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Tina Jurman

Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour

7 minutes read

Het begin en zijn oneindigheid

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Jana Živkić

Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman

9 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Polish by Aleksander Podgórny

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

6 minutes read

Notatki z życia Frances Donnell

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Katarzyna Górska

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings

5 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Czech by Klára Našincová

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

6 minutes read

Eu não era, mas agora sou. Sensível a qualquer mudança do tempo.

Translated from Serbian to Portugese by Ilija Stevanovski

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

9 minutes read

Відступниця

Translated from Italian to Ukranian by Olena Roman

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

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

La renegada

Translated from Italian to Spanish by Camila Ramírez

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

10 minutes read

Szczerze mówiąc, kochanie, nic mnie to nie obchodzi

Translated from Czech to Polish by Agata Wróbel

Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová

7 minutes read

Alle dieren van het veld

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Joep Harmsen

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings

9 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

Kalk

Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda

8 minutes read

Mâine

Translated from Portugese to Romanian by Iolanda Vasile

Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca

8 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