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Alone With the World

Portraits of the struggle to find belonging in a world that feels unfamiliar

Kamenac

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Bojana Budimir
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
7 minutes read

El comunismo visto por los niños muy pequeños

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Corina Oproae
Written in Romanian by Andrei Crăciun
7 minutes read

A ranhura do zangão

Translated from Slovenian to Portugese by Barbara Jursic
Written in Slovenian by Agata Tomažič
10 minutes read

Esmeralda da depressão

Written in Portugese by Luis Brito
6 minutes read

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

Un ronzio

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Andreaa David
Written in Romanian by Lavinia Braniște
9 minutes read

Esmeralda

Translated from Portugese to Dutch by Finne Anthonissen
Written in Portugese by Luis Brito
7 minutes read

El retrato

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Carmen Clavero Fernández
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
7 minutes read

Ortensio

Translated from Italian to Portugese by Ana Cristino
Written in Italian by Maurizio Amendola
3 minutes read

Dagen als vreemde symptomen

Sisyphus doolt door de hel met een lege rolstoel en weet niet precies wat ze daar te zoeken heeft, behalve dat ze haar dochter, die meervoudig beperkt is, moet ophalen uit het dagcentrum. Een missie die telkens mislukt, waarna ze teleurgesteld terugkeert naar de aftandse benedenwoning van een zonderling appartementencomplex. Wanneer haar hospita schijnbaar uit het niets een praatje met haar aanknoopt, begint ze zich plotseling dingen te herinneren. Dagen als vreemde symptomen is een gevecht tegen de verveling, een zoektocht naar de grenzen van het moederschap, van hoop en radeloosheid, van leven en dood.
Written in Dutch by Leonieke Baerwaldt
9 minutes read

Amanhã

Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
8 minutes read

Vězňův slovník

Translated from Italian to Czech by Monika Štefková
Written in Italian by Sara Micello
6 minutes read

Esmeralda

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

Preparare un corpo

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
8 minutes read

Preparirano telo

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

Verwrongen

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen
Written in Spanish by Matías Candeira
8 minutes read

Doma

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Nika Štrovs
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
6 minutes read

Rečnik zatvorenika

Translated from Italian to Serbian by Ana Popović
Written in Italian by Sara Micello
6 minutes read

Toți pe lume frați noi suntem

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Irina Kappelhof Costea
Written in Dutch by Yelena Schmitz
8 minutes read

Kod kuće

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Bojana Budimir
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
6 minutes read
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