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La cercacose: 44 (in)consueti oggetti da vicino e lontano

Come suggerisce il sottotitolo, il libro La cercacose contiene storie su 44 oggetti da vicino e lontano. La curiosa e variegata selezione, ordinata per temi, comprende sorprendenti chicche da tutto il mondo: stivali che arrivano dal Bhutan, mattonelle dai marciapiedi di Barcellona disegnate da Gaudí, bicchieri da vino dai Paesi Baschi, una spilla a forma di cuore da Sarajevo, espradrillas dai Pirenei, scarabei dall’antico Egitto, contenitori della spazzatura da New York, un pezzo del telo arancione proveniente dai The Floating Piers sul lago d’Iseo, un tintinnante drago sloveno, una mappa di Berlino Est e molti altri. Raccontando le storie di oggetti concreti, Ekaterina Petrova in realtà racconta anche dei luoghi da dove provengono – Küstendorf е Kathmandu, Lubiana e Louisiana, Belvedere e Bilbao, Selçuk e Central park – ponendoli contemporaneamente in un più ampio contesto linguistico, storico, antropologico e geografico. Astuta miscela fra diari di viaggio, saggi e racconti, i testi sono attentamente documentati e intessuti di aneddoti curiosi, ma inframmezzati dallo sguardo soggettivo dell’autrice, così come dalla sua personale biografia di viaggiatrice, traduttrice e cercacose. Elaborato artisticamente dall’occhio estetico di Lyuba Haleva, una delle più eminenti illustratrici bulgare contemporanee, l’impostazione grafica del libro è superba e con umorismo coglie l’anima e l’umore delle storie. In questo modo anche il libro stesso diventa un bell’oggetto carico di piacere e gioia, da leggere e rileggere, da avere e regalare.

Translated from Bulgarian to Italian by Giorgia Spadoni
Written in Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova
10 minutes read

ПРИСТИГАЩИ / GELIȘ (Медояди)

Translated from Dutch to Bulgarian by Elissaveta Manolova Maciel
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
7 minutes read

Hoe we minder zullen worden

Written in Dutch by Rebekka de Wit
9 minutes read

Cestou domů

Translated from Italian to Czech by Monika Štefková
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
7 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Honingeter)

Sibel wacht in de luchthaven van Istanboel. Elke dag opnieuw mist ze haar vlucht naar Brussel. Ze voelt zich in de beide landen niet thuis, wil grip krijgen op de herinneringen aan haar overleden vader en haar taal herontdekken. Sibel vult de dagen met het observeren van andere passagiers en de zorg voor een speurhond.

Maar zelf wordt ze ook geobserveerd. Bewakingsagent Ömer houdt haar via zijn schermen in da gaten en beslist haar te beschermen, zoals een vader. En dan is er nog Wernicke, een piloot die niet alleen zijn job verloor, maar nu ook zijn taal en gezondheid. Alle drie leven ze illegaal in de luchthaven, met hun eigen bagage en communicatieproblemen. Een sneeuwstorm verlengt hun ongemakkelijke samenzijn, maar een afscheid is onafwendbaar.

Erkan omschrijft gevoelig hoe het is om tussen twee culturen op te groeien. Honingeter maakt bevattelijk hoe onmogelijk het is de ander echt te begrijpen en om je ergens thuis te voelen als je je moedertaal niet kunt spreken. Met poëtische metaforen toont Erkan de kwetsbaarheid van haar personages.

Tülin Erkan (1988) groeide op in Oostende bij een Franstalige moeder en een Engelstalige grootmoeder. Haar zomers bracht ze door bij haar vader in Turkije. Wanneer mensen haar als half omschrijven, voelt ze zich vooral dubbel. In haar debuut Honingeter rijgt ze taal en herinnering virtuoos aan elkaar tot een gecondenseerd geheel.

Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
7 minutes read

Vračajoč se domov

Translated from Italian to Slovenian by Martin Kastelic
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
8 minutes read

Pero la casa todavía vive en mí

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Guillermo Briz
Written in Dutch by Maud Vanhauwaert
9 minutes read

Iskreno, ljubica, briga me

Translated from Czech to Slovenian by Vesna Dragar
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
7 minutes read

L’esilio

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Maria Alampi
Written in Romanian by Anna Kalimar
8 minutes read

Notas sobre a vida de Frances Donnel

Translated from Spanish to Portugese by Miguel Martins
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
6 minutes read

Exilul

Written in Romanian by Anna Kalimar
7 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Medojed)

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Tamara Britka
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
7 minutes read

Note sulla vita di Frances Donnell

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
6 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Medar)

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

Dnevnik Portugalke v Angoli

Translated from Portugese to Slovenian by Maruša Fakin
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
7 minutes read

Tornando a casa

Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
8 minutes read

Francamente, querida, me importa un bledo

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Daniel Ordóñez Franco
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
8 minutes read

Pande parka Ueno

Translated from Italian to Serbian by Ana Popović
Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
12 minutes read

Jurnalul unei portugheze în Angola

Translated from Portugese to Romanian by Iolanda Vasile
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
8 minutes read
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