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Prvo dolazi ćutanje

Translated from Romanian to Serbian by Mirela Belada
Written in Romanian by Ioana Maria Stăncescu
8 minutes read

Začetek in njegova neskončnost

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Tina Jurman
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
8 minutes read

Il silenzio viene prima

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

Cu păsările am în comun cerul

Translated from Slovenian to Romanian by Paula Braga Šimenc
Written in Slovenian by Agata Tomažič
9 minutes read

Константин

Translated from Romanian to Bulgarian by Valentina Zlateva
Written in Romanian by Iulian Bocai
9 minutes read

cihlové bloky

Translated from Spanish to Czech by Markéta Cubrová
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
7 minutes read

Krimski roman

Translated from Ukranian to Serbian by Dragana Vasilijević-Valent
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
8 minutes read

Constantin. Portret

Translated from Romanian to Polish by Aleksander Podgórny
Written in Romanian by Iulian Bocai
7 minutes read

O reencontro

Translated from Romanian to Portugese by Cristina Visan
Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă
9 minutes read

De Heggen

Translated from Polish to Dutch by Małgosia Briefjes
Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska
12 minutes read

Constantin

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Borja Mozo
Written in Romanian by Iulian Bocai
10 minutes read

Имало едно време Крим

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

I onda opet, iz početka

Centralni lik novog romana Filipa Grujića je pravi „junak našeg doba“, mladić na prelasku iz dvadesetih (kada se sve prašta i ništa nije konačno) u tridesete (kada sve postaje obavezujuće i ozbiljno), upravo izašao iz duge veze s nejasnom idejom šta želi od života.

Njegova svakodnevica rastrzana između porodice (razvedeni otac i majka, njihovi novi partneri i vremešni, ali vrlo živopisni roditelji), prijatelja, devojaka i obaveza, komične epizode, snažan autoironijski ton i bolno iskrena promišljanja o tome šta uopšte znači biti srećan u trećoj deceniji XXI veka, sve su to delovi kompleksne ali majstorski složene literarne slagalice koju bez preterivanja možemo nazvati prvim pravim, ozbiljnim milenijalskim romanom u srpskoj književnosti.

Filip Grujić posle dva zapažena romana kojima je nagovestio veliki književni talenat ovim delom sazreva u jednog od najboljih pripovedača koje naša književnost ima, prestaje da bude samo njena svetla budućnost i postaje važna i nezaobilazna sadašnjost.

Written in Serbian by Filip Grujić
8 minutes read

Константин. Портрет

Translated from Romanian to Ukranian by Paulina-Ionela Onujec
Written in Romanian by Iulian Bocai
8 minutes read

Di me non sai

Lucio falls in love with "the boy" even before meeting him: just watching him from the window of his office is enough for him to become almost obsessed. When they finally meet, he discovers that Davide is much younger than him (still studying), and that he is elusive, unreliable, and "cruel" in the way only twenty-year-olds can be cruel.

For two months, Lucio and Davide have dinner together, have sex, go to the beach, and often sleep at Lucio's place. However, Davide does not fall in love. He continues to seek Lorenzo, the only man he (perhaps) truly loved, of whom he keeps only a pixelated photo on an old cellphone. Like many twenty-year-olds, he is also confused, wounded, and willing to nestle into the routine of always having a Coca-Cola ready for him in the refrigerator.

"Di me non sai" tells the story of a relationship lived in an opposite, incompatible way, whose nature is revealed to the reader only as the novel progresses. Alternating the perspectives of the two protagonists in short, sometimes very short chapters, Raffaele Cataldo shows the misalignment of feelings and the painful consequences it can have, the slow pace of hot Apulian summers, and the obsessive loves (present and absent) that, like wild oat seeds, cling to hair, shoes, and clothes.

Written in Italian by Raffaele Cataldo
4 minutes read

Коридор (Poluostrvo)

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Tamara Britka
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
8 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

Il raduno

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Andreaa David
Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă
9 minutes read

Sraz

Translated from Romanian to Czech by Tereza Prymak
Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă
8 minutes read

¡Tres!

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Enrique Gutiérrez
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
8 minutes read
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