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Time After Time

Explore or alter the physics, the histories and the inevitability of time

Záblesky

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

Garduri vii

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

Los Miralles

La primera novela de Kike Cherta parte de una premisa tan sugerente como original. Los Miralles, una atípica familia valenciana, están convencidos de que el manzano que crece en el patio de su alquería es de origen divino. De hecho, creen que es el mismísimo Árbol del Bien y del Mal que aparece en la Biblia, el mismo del que comieron Adán y Eva embaucados por una serpiente parlanchina. Desde hace generaciones, tienen una única misión: vigilarlo noche y día para que nadie vuelva a probar jamás del fruto prohibido. En este sorprendente debut, Kike Cherta indaga en las paradojas propias de cualquier tradición, en las siempre complejas dinámicas familiares y en la culpa asociada a las raíces. Envuelta en un aura mágica que casi no deja diferencias lo que es real de lo que es milagro, el libro se nutre de un punto medio ideal entre trascendencia y humor. Religión, familia e identidad se mezclan en una suerte de comedia negra profanamente bíblica.
Written in Spanish by Kike Cherta
9 minutes read

Automobil iz stare Grčke

Translated from Czech to Serbian by Uroš Nikolić
Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl
9 minutes read

Il silenzio viene prima

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

Un vuiet

Written in Romanian by Lavinia Braniște
8 minutes read

Uccelli che cantano il futuro

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
5 minutes read

Brooklyn-Barakaldo

¿Guardar silencio y ser cómplice? ¿O acudir a la justicia y temer venganza? Mateo vuelve a la casa familiar en Madrid después de haber sido despedido del estudio de arquitectura en el que trabajaba en Barcelona. Cuando por azar encuentra una pistola entre las pertenencias de Juan, su padre, sospecha que este tuvo relación con un atentado de ETA ocurrido hace veinte años en el barrio. En paralelo, el lector conocerá la historia de Malen, que, en el 2000, planificó el asesinato de un juez en el mismo barrio de Juan y Mateo, pero cuya ejecución tuvo un desenlace inesperado. La investigación de Mateo por conocer la verdad le llevará a desentrañar secretos ocultos que podrían desmontar sin remedio los pilares de su vida y de las personas que quiere. Basándose en un atentado real de hace veinticinco años en Madrid, Antonio Lleras reflexiona en su primera y emocionante novela sobre la redención y la posibilidad de cambiar de vida. Y sobre cómo décadas después del fin de ETA víctimas y verdugos tratan de reconstruir sus vidas tras un pasado común de violencia y venganza.
Written in Spanish by Antonio Lleras
9 minutes read

In The End (Koniec)

Metaphysical and blasphemous novel about the tragedy of war that never meets a clean end with a peace treaty. The war goes on, residing within its victims who carry it from one generation to the next. Malwina, an exceptionally sensitive girl, experiences her grandmother’s wartime memories in her dreams. This makes her exist in two parallel realities at once: the 1940s Eastern borderlands and Siberia along the 1990s Poland. Those realities seep and bleed through one another, making Malwina a catcher of her survivor grandmother’s dreams, or perhaps a dybbuk who gives voice to the dead. To Malwina, the war persists, haunting her day and night alike. Poignant and piercing, Koniec is an impressively well-crafted prose.
Written in Polish by Marta Hermanowicz
10 minutes read

Een bom in de nacht die de bergen verlicht

Translated from Portugese to Dutch by Finne Anthonissen
Written in Portugese by Daniela Costa
8 minutes read

Medir el tiempo en la Antigüedad

Translated from Italian to Spanish by Paula Caballero
Written in Italian by Fabio Guidetti
9 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Medar)

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

Koridor (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
7 minutes read

Коридор (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Bulgarian by Elissaveta Manolova Maciel
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
7 minutes read

De trilogie van het verloren geslacht

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Charlotte van Rooden
Written in Romanian by Cristina Vremes
9 minutes read

Manovra

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Antonio De Sortis
Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (Pogoji niso pomembni)

Translated from Serbian to Slovenian by Natalija Milovanović
Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk
5 minutes read

Diário da Vida

Translated from Serbian to Portugese by Ilija Stevanovski
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
10 minutes read

Ființele vii

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Oana-Dana Balaş
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
8 minutes read
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