C'era una volta in Crimea

Translated from Ukranian to Italian by Claudia Bettiol

Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova

11 minutes read

Los bloques naranjas

Una ventana a la amistad masculina: la corporalidad y los afectos truncados, torpes, subterráneos, que se dan en una pandilla de chicos de barrio durante los 2000.

Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz

8 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

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

Perguntem ao Relâmpago

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Xénon Cruz

Written in Dutch by Carmien Michels

8 minutes read

ciudad fragmentada

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Beatriz Jiménez

Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour

9 minutes read

Manoeuvre

Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono

8 minutes read

Všechna polní i lesní zvěř

Translated from Spanish to Czech by Martina Kutková

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings

6 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

La rinnegata

A story of three generations of women, their courage and search for independence in the face of superstition and prejudice, in the spirit of Natalia Ginzburg and Elena Ferrante. In this striking debut, based on a true story, Valeria Usala bears witness to an age-old story of violence against women and takes us into the heart of rural Sardinia, where superstitions and cruelty coexist with the joys and companionship of a tight-knit community. Teresa runs a shop and a tavern. But not even the family she has created with the man she loves can protect her from the malicious gossip of jealous locals, who are threatened by her independence. Her own mother, Maria, was made an outcast, and now Teresa is in turn forsaken by the villagers. Will she pay for her success with her life? Is she like a character in Greek tragedy, whose destiny is inevitable? A story that gives voice to the forgotten women of Sardinia—and to the one of women everywhere.

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

10 minutes read

Težka voda

V svetu, ki ga naseljujejo Ida, Marta, Tone in Lojze, na vrtovih gnijejo paradižniki, na nočnih omaricah ždijo nagačeni zajci, krave pa je treba slej kot prej ustreliti med oči. Nič čudnega, če na blatni zemlji komu usodno spodrsne ali pa mu glavo spešta kakšno drevo; Gospod vendarle daje in jemlje, povrh vsega pa še odpušča. V romanu Težka voda, svojstveni anatomiji krivde, ki prelamlja s tradicijo slovenske povesti, se drobci iz življenja starejše protagonistke Ide med posledicami zamolčane preteklosti in neizživete prihodnosti postopoma sestavljajo v okrušeno celoto. Ta v ekspresivnem, dovršenem slogu razkriva predvsem bridko resnico o prepletenosti življenj znotraj manjše vaške skupnosti, kjer se vse zdi na dlani, pa vendar skrivnost rojeva nove skrivnosti.

Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj

9 minutes read

Szczerze mówiąc, kochanie, nic mnie to nie obchodzi

Translated from Czech to Polish by Agata Wróbel

Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová

7 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Mâncătorul de miere)

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Andreea Bălteanu

Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan

7 minutes read

SKOROSMRTNICA

Written in Serbian by Ana Marija Grbic

8 minutes read

Verwrongen

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen

Written in Spanish by Matías Candeira

8 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Medar)

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak

Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan

6 minutes read