READING ROOM

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Joep Harmsen

Alle dieren van het veld

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Anna Opara

Korytarz (Peninsula)

Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak

Koridor (Peninsula)

Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli

Bestie voi tutte dei campi

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings

Bestias todas del campo

Translated from Slovenian to Bulgarian by Dimana Miteva

Тежка вода

Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj

Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker

Een lichaam opzetten

Translated from Italian to Slovenian by Zarja Lampret Prešeren

Zatajena

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

Translated from Czech to Serbian by Uroš Nikolić

Iskreno, draga, baš me briga

Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Xénon Cruz

Manobra

Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono

Translated from Ukranian to Serbian by Dragana Vasilijević-Valent

Krimski roman

Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Daniel Ordóñez Franco

Francamente, querida, me importa un bledo

Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová

Translated from Dutch to Ukranian by Larysa Dobra

Початок та його безкінечність

Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

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.