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Cassandra fuma sigarette senza filtro

Translated from to Italian by Claudia Bettiol
Written in by
14 minutes read

Non tutti andremo in paradiso

In una mano una lattina di birra bionda, nell’altra un rosario, una sigaretta in bocca, gli Aerosmith alla radio. Tre ragazze che provano qualcosa l’una per l’altra, in viaggio attraverso la Polonia di provincia a bordo di una sgangherata Opel. Una racconta alle altre della sua vita: della prima scuola, della prima amicizia e del primo amore. Il viaggio spirituale negli anni Novanta e Duemila intrapreso dalla narratrice di questo romanzo on the road si rivela in realtà un'analisi penetrante dell'identità di classe e di genere, ma anche un tentativo di descrivere il desiderio omoerotico: dapprima completamente represso dall’eteronormatività, poi espresso in piccoli gesti e baci, infine, apertamente dichiarato durante un viaggio in auto. La sua destinazione geografica è Radom, ma quella esistenziale: la trasgressione, l’affermazione e l’esperienza estatica della libertà.
Translated from Polish to Italian by Paola Pappalardo
Written in Polish by Olga Górska
10 minutes read

Bachmut

Translated from Ukrainian to Italian by Claudia Bettiol
Written in Ukrainian by Myroslav Laiuk
13 minutes read

Anche se non puoi vederne che una goccia

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Antonio De Sortis
Written in Dutch by Rebekka de Wit
9 minutes read

Tutti gli ascensori portano al piano terra (Acqua da guardare)

Translated from Bulgarian to Italian by Giorgia Spadoni
Written in Bulgarian by Gergana Galabova
9 minutes read

I panda di Ueno

Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
13 minutes read

La Metro

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Maria Alampi
Written in Romanian by Cătălin Pavel
9 minutes read

Non voglio essere un cane

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
8 minutes read

Questo sangue masticato

In his debut novel, Francesco Aloia comes to terms with the past and his family, keeping his grandmother Ada's teachings firmly in mind. After leaving home and finding his own path, he returns to the places of his childhood during a summer and confronts a particularly "overbearing" grandfather, Tanino 'e Bastimento, a man of honor who, after a couple of murders and many years in prison, after challenging a Camorra boss, now must face one final duel "in absentia"—this time with his grandson.
Written in Italian by Francesco Aloia
10 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

Le pecore stanno bene

Translated from Ukrainian to Italian by Claudia Bettiol
Written in Ukrainian by Eugenia Kuznetsova
6 minutes read

Non lo ero, ma ora lo sono. Sensibile a ogni variazione atmosferica.

Translated from Serbian to Italian by Sara Latorre
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
9 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

L'avvento

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Andreaa David
Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă
6 minutes read

L'Impero Romano e la crisi dei rifugiati (370-410 d.C.)

Written in Italian by Fabio Guidetti
9 minutes read

Il depuratore

Translated from Czech to Italian by Elena Zuccolo
Written in Czech by Anna Háblová
11 minutes read

Giorni come strani sintomi

Sisifo vaga per l’inferno spingendo una sedia a rotelle vuota e non sa di preciso che cosa ci faccia lì, eccetto che deve passare a prendere sua figlia – affetta da molteplici disabilità – dal centro diurno. Una missione che fallisce di continuo, e al termine della quale ritorna delusa nel fatiscente appartamento al piano terra di uno stravagante condominio. Quando la sua padrona di casa, apparentemente dal nulla, si mette a conversare con lei, Sisifo inizia di colpo a ricordare. Giorni come strani sintomi è una lotta contro il tedio, un’indagine sui confini della maternità, della speranza e della disperazione, della vita e della morte.
Translated from Dutch to Italian by Jessica Rostro Benigno
Written in Dutch by Leonieke Baerwaldt
9 minutes read

La casa di Haifa

Translated from Slovenian to Italian by Lucia Gaja Scuteri
Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman
11 minutes read

Gerico

Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
8 minutes read

Corridoio (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Matilde Soliani
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
8 minutes read
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