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Alone With the World

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

Cerul să fie senin

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Oana-Dana Balaş
Written in Spanish by Matías Candeira
6 minutes read

Il ritratto

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

Iskar: 44 (ne)navadnih predmetov od blizu in daleč

Kot namiguje podnaslov, knjiga Iskar vsebuje zgodbe o 44 predmetih od blizu in daleč. Radovedna in raznolika zbirka, urejena po tematikah, vključuje presenetljive najdbe z vsega sveta: škornje iz Butana, tlakovce z Gaudijevim vzorcem iz Barcelone, kozarce za vino iz Baskije, broško v obliki srca iz Sarajeva, espadrile iz Pirenejev, skarabeje iz starega Egipta, škatlo smeti iz New Yorka, kos oranžne tkanine s plavajočih pomolov na jezeru Iseo, slovenskega rjovečega zmaja, zemljevid vzhodnega Berlina in še mnogo več.

Ko Ekaterina Petrova pripoveduje zgodbe o teh predmetih, pravzaprav pripoveduje tudi o krajih, od koder prihajajo – Kustendorf in Katmandu, Ljubljana in Louisiana, Belvedere in Bilbao, Selçuk in Centralni park –, ter jih umešča v širši jezikovni, kulturni, zgodovinski, antropološki ali geografski kontekst. Umetelna mešanica potopisov, esejev in zgodb je skrbno raziskana in podkrepljena z zanimivimi dejstvi, vendar prežeta s subjektivnim pogledom avtorice in njeno osebno biografijo popotnice, prevajalke in iskarke.

Oblikovanje in podoba knjige, ki jo je ustvarila Ljuba Haleva, ena najvidnejših sodobnih bolgarskih ilustratork, dobro in s smislom za humor pričara duh zgodb. Tako tudi sama knjiga postane čudovit predmet, ki prinaša užitek in veselje – za branje in ponovno branje, za posedovanje in obdarovanje.

Translated from Bulgarian to Slovenian by Maja Kovač
Written in Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova
8 minutes read

Parêntesis

Translated from Spanish to Portugese by Matias Gomes
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
7 minutes read

Kalk

Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
8 minutes read

Ortensio

Written in Italian by Maurizio Amendola
3 minutes read

Paréntesis

Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
7 minutes read

Un vuiet

Written in Romanian by Lavinia Braniște
8 minutes read

Portret

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Aleksandar Đokanović
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
6 minutes read

Kalcifikacija

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

Amanhã

Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
8 minutes read

El infierno

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Carmen Clavero Fernández
Written in Dutch by Aya Sabi
8 minutes read

Het portret

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
7 minutes read

wypychanie ciała

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Olga Niziołek
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Usazenina

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Blanka Konečná
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
7 minutes read

Parenthese

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
8 minutes read

Portret

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Ariela Herček
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
6 minutes read

Laat het opklaren

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

Zítra

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

Portrét

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Veronika Horáčková
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
6 minutes read
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