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Ja nisam bila, ali sada jesam. Osetljiva na svaku promenu vremena.

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
8 minutes read

Oranžni bloki

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Mojca Petaros
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
8 minutes read

De bananengeneratie: over het dubbelleven van Chinese Nederlanders van nu

Pete Wu is een banaan. Althans, zo noemt zijn moeder hem liefkozend: ‘geel van buiten en wit vanbinnen’. Hij is een tweede generatie Chinese Nederlander, die midden in de Nederlandse samenleving staat. Toch wordt Pete ongewild herinnerd aan zijn anders-zijn. Door mensen die hem vragen waar hij nou écht vandaan komt. Of anders wel door de gemiddelde carnavalshit, Meneer Cheung uit Ik hou van Holland, of Gordon: ‘Wat ga je zingen? Nummer 39 met rijst?’ In De bananengeneratie gaat Pete in gesprek met ‘mede bananen’ die net als hij worstelen met hun Chinese Nederlanderschap. Hij praat met hen over generatieclashes, daten, discriminatie en eenzaamheid. En over het gevecht om jezelf te mogen zijn – bevrijd van clichés.
Written in Dutch by Pete Wu
9 minutes read

A aprendizagem

Written in Portugese by Valério Romão
5 minutes read

Een paar verdwaalde minuten

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Charlotte van Rooden
Written in Romanian by Cristina Vremes
10 minutes read

Uma vida a meio

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Lut Caenen
Written in Dutch by Aya Sabi
8 minutes read

La renegada

Translated from Italian to Spanish by Camila Ramírez
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
10 minutes read

Acquagrave

Translated from Slovenian to Italian by Giorgia Maurovich
Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj
10 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

Mantide

Mia ha ventisette anni e guarda ogni giorno il peggio del mondo: fa la moderatrice di contenuti e deve censurare i video più violenti che circolano online. Da quando il suo ex fidanzato Ruben è morto folgorato nella vasca da bagno, vive in un loop di nichilismo e rimorso, anestetizzata da quel lavoro e dagli psicofarmaci, ravvivata solo a tratti dall’amicizia di Dennis e Miriam. Il passato con Ruben è un archivio di ricordi feroci come quelle immagini che deve rimuovere dalla rete ma non può cancellare dalla sua memoria: ricatti emotivi di lui, che la accusa di consumarlo come una mantide; e paura di abbandonarlo. Ma quando si imbatte nel video di Sofia, una ragazza che le somiglia e che si butta da un ponte, Mia si riscuote e si mette sulle sue tracce: ne incontra il fidanzato Lapo, musicista in ascesa, e l’amica Margot, escort e ballerina in un night, e da entrambi si lascia sedurre, in una girandola di specchi. Finché Mia, con Miriam e Margot, decide di darsi un’alternativa, in un patto di sorellanza fuori dagli schemi che riuscirà a rompere il guscio del suo dolore. “Mantide” racconta il percorso di una giovane donna che sfida la perdita e la solitudine, ribellandosi all’atavico senso di colpa femminile per proiettarsi in avanti, verso la luce di una se stessa futura.
Written in Italian by Cecilia Rita
9 minutes read

Todas as pessoas se tornam irmãos

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Lut Caenen
Written in Dutch by Yelena Schmitz
8 minutes read

Коридор (Poluostrvo)

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Tamara Britka
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
8 minutes read

De viltstift

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

Zítra

Translated from Portugese to Czech by Štěpánka Huláková
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
7 minutes read

Upřímně, miláčku, je mi to fuk

Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
7 minutes read

La mortífera

Translated from Serbian to Spanish by Ivana Palibrk
Written in Serbian by Ana Marija Grbic
11 minutes read

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

Translated from Czech to Dutch by Annette Manni
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
8 minutes read

Esmeralda

Translated from Portugese to Serbian by Tamina Šop
Written in Portugese by Luis Brito
6 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

Skorosmrtelná

Translated from Serbian to Czech by Markéta Chlebovská
Written in Serbian by Ana Marija Grbic
8 minutes read
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