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ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Mielero)

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Pablo Martín Sánchez
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
7 minutes read

Началото и неговата безкрайност

Translated from Dutch to Bulgarian by Elena Dimitrova
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
9 minutes read

črepinjasto mesto

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Tina Jurman
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
7 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

Iverak

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Bojana Budimir
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Het begin en zijn oneindigheid

Op hoge leeftijd is Marcel met een depressie in een psychiatrisch ziekenhuis beland, waar zijn kleindochter jaren eerder ook verbleef, op de afdeling eetstoornissen. Ze komt hem dikwijls opzoeken en bespreekt haar vragen in een radiodocumentaire. In hoeverre kies je zelf wie je bent? Wat is een Verward Persoon? Hoe erfelijk is ontregeling, en wat is de oorzaak ervan? Wanneer begint herstel en belangrijker, wanneer eindigt het? Corinne Heyrman vertelt het verhaal van de grootvader, zijn kleindochter, familieleden en andere patiënten in het ziekenhuis, waarmee ze de complexiteit en de vele gezichtspunten van psychische kwetsbaarheid vol verbeeldingskracht en inlevingsvermogen ontleedt.

Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
9 minutes read

Banánová generace: o dvojím životě současných čínských Nizozemců

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Barbora Genserová
Written in Dutch by Pete Wu
8 minutes read

Město ze střepů

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Barbora Genserová
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
7 minutes read

Residence

Translated from Italian to Romanian by Nicoleta Iolanda Rus
Written in Italian by Maurizio Amendola
10 minutes read

Apă grea

Translated from Slovenian to Romanian by Sergiu Lozinschi
Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj
10 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

L’inizio e la sua eternità

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Jessica Rostro Benigno
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
9 minutes read

Oranje blokken

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Lies Doms
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
9 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Medar)

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
6 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

Krimski roman

Translated from Ukranian to Serbian by Dragana Vasilijević-Valent
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
8 minutes read

Distorti

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Valeria Parlato
Written in Spanish by Matías Candeira
7 minutes read

ciudad fragmentada

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Beatriz Jiménez
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
9 minutes read

Sutra

Translated from Portugese to Serbian by Tamina Šop
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
7 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
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