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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

La generazione banana: sulla doppia vita dei cinesi dei Paesi Bassi oggi

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Jessica Rostro Benigno
Written in Dutch by Pete Wu
9 minutes read

Ce nu știi despre mine

Translated from Italian to Romanian by George Doru Ivan
Written in Italian by Raffaele Cataldo
4 minutes read

De beesten

‘Ik wil niet veel zeggen, maar volgens mij ging het al mis met Tom Keller toen die twee ooms hem ’s nachts meenamen naar het bos en hem dingen lieten doen die een jongen van negen nog lang niet zou moeten doen.’ Zo begint De beesten, het romandebuut van Gijs Wilbrink. Het speelt zich af in de Achterhoek, te midden van motoren, stropers, nertsenfokkerijen en handeltjes die het daglicht niet kunnen verdragen. In dit mystieke grensland vol geheimen groeit Tom Keller op, jongste telg van de beruchtste familie van de streek, en gezegend met een van God gegeven talent voor de motocross. Als hij jaren later plotseling verdwijnt, komt zijn opstandige dochter terug naar haar geboortegrond om hem te zoeken, met een dramatische familiereünie tot gevolg.
Written in Dutch by Gijs Wilbrink
9 minutes read

Synopse

Translated from Italian to Czech by Monika Štefková
Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
4 minutes read

El puente

Translated from Portugese to Spanish by Lara Carrión
Written in Portugese by João Valente
10 minutes read

Il silenzio viene prima

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Barbara Pavetto
Written in Romanian by Ioana Maria Stăncescu
10 minutes read

Generația-banană: despre viața dublă a unui chinez-neerlandez

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Mădălina Balea
Written in Dutch by Pete Wu
10 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Medar)

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

Garduri vii

Translated from Polish to Romanian by Oana-Andreea Stoe
Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska
11 minutes read

Sinossi

Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
4 minutes read

A ponte

Written in Portugese by João Valente
9 minutes read

Și din nou, de la început

Translated from Serbian to Romanian by Aleksandra Petrov
Written in Serbian by Filip Grujić
9 minutes read

Comparto el cielo con los pájaros

Translated from Slovenian to Spanish by Xavier Farré
Written in Slovenian by Agata Tomažič
10 minutes read

Початок та його безкінечність

Translated from Dutch to Ukranian by Larysa Dobra
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
8 minutes read

Pomarańczowe bloki

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Justyna Sterna
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
7 minutes read

Vse zveri z vasi

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Katja Petrovec
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
8 minutes read

Имало едно време Крим

Translated from Ukranian to Bulgarian by Dayana Gocova
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
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

TRE!

Translated from Czech to Italian by Marco Maria Baù
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
8 minutes read
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