la città in frantumi

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Jessica Rostro Benigno

Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour

8 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

grad od srče

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Jana Živkić

Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour

7 minutes read

Všichni lidé bratry budou

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Veronika Horáčková

Written in Dutch by Yelena Schmitz

7 minutes read

Platvis

Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker

8 minutes read

Koridor (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak

Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs

7 minutes read

Початок та його безкінечність

Translated from Dutch to Ukranian by Larysa Dobra

Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman

8 minutes read

Amanhã

Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca

8 minutes read

De leerschool

Translated from Portugese to Dutch by Anne Lopes Michielsen

Written in Portugese by Valério Romão

6 minutes read

Fire

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Irina Kappelhof Costea

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

8 minutes read

Preparare un corpo

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani

Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker

8 minutes read

Pez plano

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Daniela Martín Hidalgo

Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker

8 minutes read

Wszystkie zwierzęta polne

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Katarzyna Górska

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings

7 minutes read

Torcidos

Translated from Spanish to Portugese by Matias Gomes

Written in Spanish by Matías Candeira

7 minutes read

Árbol monstruo niño árbol

Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres

10 minutes read

Depresivní Esmeralda

Translated from Portugese to Czech by Štěpánka Huláková

Written in Portugese by Luis Brito

6 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

Відступниця

Translated from Italian to Ukranian by Olena Roman

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

8 minutes read

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

Translated from Czech to Dutch by Annette Manni

Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová

8 minutes read

Apuntes para la vida de Frances Donnell

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings

6 minutes read