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Poszukiwaczka rzeczy: 44 (nie)zwyczajnе przedmioty z bliska i z daleka

Tak jak sugeruje podtytuł, książka Poszukiwaczka rzeczy przedstawia historie 44 przedmiotów z bliska i z daleka. W środku znajdziemy zaskakujące, różnorodne i uporządkowane tematycznie znaleziska z całego świata: buty z Bhutanu, płytki chodnikowe z Barcelony według projektu Gaudiego, szklanki do wina z kraju Basków, broszkę w kształcie serca z Sarajewa, espadryle z Pirenejów, skarabeusze ze Starożytnego Egiptu, pudełko ze śmieciami z Nowego Jorku, kawałek pomarańczowego materiału „Dryfujących pomostów” z jeziora Iseo, słoweńskiego dzwoniącego smoka, mapę Wschodniego Berlina i wiele innych. Opowiadając historie konkretnych przedmiotów, Ekaterina Petrowa w rzeczywistości opowiada o miejscach, z których one pochodzą – o Küstendorfie i Katmandu, o Lublanie i Luizjanie, o Belwederze i Bilbao, o Selçuku i Central Parku – jednocześnie umieszcza je w szerszym językowym, kulturowym, historycznym, antropologicznym i geograficznym kontekście. Teksty są pomysłową mieszanką dzienników podróży, esejów i opowiadań, uważnie przeanalizowane i poprzetykane ciekawostkami, ale przełamane subiektywnym spojrzeniem autorki, jak i jej osobistą biografią podróżniczki, tłumaczki i poszukiwaczki rzeczy. Artystycznie skomponowana przez Ljubę Chalewą, jedną z najsłynniejszych bułgarskich ilustratorek, szata graficzna książki w cudowny i pełen poczucia humoru sposób oddaje ducha i nastrój historii. Dzięki temu sama książka również staje się pięknym i niosącym przyjemność przedmiotem – do czytania i powracania, do posiadania i obdarowywania.

Translated from Bulgarian to Polish by Zofia Kręc
Written in Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova
8 minutes read

Имало едно време Крим

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

Hele, holky (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

Translated from Romanian to Czech by Klára Našincová
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
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

L’Affitto

Translated from Portugese to Italian by Elisa Rossi
Written in Portugese by Daniela Costa
8 minutes read

Семейство Миралес

Translated from Spanish to Bulgarian by Ivana Peneva
Written in Spanish by Kike Cherta
8 minutes read

Fili

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Francesco Panzeri
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
8 minutes read

Sulinin glas

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Tamara Britka
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
7 minutes read

Deník jedné Portugalky v Angole

Translated from Portugese to Czech by Štěpánka Huláková
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
7 minutes read

Tatăl nostru

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu
Written in Dutch by Lotte Lentes
7 minutes read

Cathedra of hoe je slagroom maakt

Written in Dutch by Joost Oomen
8 minutes read

Cara, francamente me ne infischio

Translated from Czech to Italian by Elena Zuccolo
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
9 minutes read

Măi, fetelor (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

There are few places across Europe which have had the tumultuous story of Moldova in the 20th and 21st centuries. My greatgrandmother, for instance, spent most of her life in the same village while living in four different countries: she was born in the Russian Empire, went to school in Romania, resisted collectivisation and eventually gave in during the Soviet era, and got retired in the independent Republic of Moldova. I share her story in this book, as well as stories of other people with different backgrounds I interviewed, in an effort to create a polyphonic view of Moldova’s recent history. Chronologically, the book starts with the 1903 infamous Chisinau pogrom and it ends with the 2022 refugee crisis caused by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Geographically, the stories are rooted in Moldova but they cover the whole world thanks to the processes of migration that characterised all of the communities described in this book — Jewish, Roma, Armenian, Moldovan, Ukrainian, Russian etc. — at different points during history.

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
7 minutes read

Fire

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Irina Kappelhof Costea
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
8 minutes read

Záblesky

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

Ach, meiden (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Charlotte van Rooden
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
8 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Mielero)

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Pablo Martín Sánchez
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
7 minutes read

Голос Суліни

Translated from Dutch to Ukranian by Olga Bondarenko
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
6 minutes read

Francamente querida, tanto me faz

Translated from Czech to Portugese by Stepanka Lichtblau
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
8 minutes read

Lampi

Written in Italian by Sara Micello
7 minutes read
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