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Lotosové květy, které se zavírají (když se do nich vstoupí) (Cesta recepčního)

Translated from Serbian to Czech by Věra Böhmová
Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić
6 minutes read

Přibližně v ten samý okamžik mě pohltilo město

Translated from Ukranian to Czech by Adéla Mikešová
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
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

Голос Суліни

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

Cum se poate măsura timpul?

Translated from Italian to Romanian by Nicoleta Iolanda Rus
Written in Italian by Fabio Guidetti
8 minutes read

Lotosovi cvetovi, ki se zapirajo (ko se vanje stopi) (Pot perceptorja)

Translated from Serbian to Slovenian by Natalija Milovanović
Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić
6 minutes read

Bárbaros no Império Romano

Translated from Italian to Portugese by Ana Cristino
Written in Italian by Fabio Guidetti
8 minutes read

Kilka miesięcy później

Translated from Slovenian to Polish by Joanna Borowy
Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman
8 minutes read

Po torach

Translated from Bulgarian to Polish by Zofia Kręc
Written in Bulgarian by Nevena Mitropolitska
9 minutes read

Encuentracosas: 44 objetos (in)usuales de cerca y lejos

Como sugiere su subtítulo, el libro Encuentracosas contiene historias sobre 44 objetos de cerca y lejos. La curiosa y variada selección, ordenada temáticamente, incluye sorprendentes hallazgos de todo el mundo: Botas de Bután, losetas de Barcelona diseñadas por Gaudí, copas de vino del País Vasco, un broche en forma de corazón de Sarajevo, alpargatas de los Pirineos, escarabajos del antiguo Egipto, un cubo de basura de Nueva York, un trozo de tela naranja de los muelles flotantes del lago Iseo, una campana de dragón eslovena, un mapa de Berlín del Este y mucho más. Al narrar las historias de estos objetos concretos, Ekaterina Petrova cuenta en realidad las historias de los lugares de los que proceden —Kustendorf y Katmandú, Liubliana y Luisiana, Belvedere y Bilbao, Selcuk y Central Park—, situándolos al mismo tiempo en un contexto lingüístico, cultural, histórico, antropológico o geográfico más amplio. Los textos, una ingeniosa mezcla entre cuaderno de viaje, ensayo y relato corto, están cuidadosamente elaborados y repletos de curiosidades, pero refractados a través de la perspectiva subjetiva de la autora, así como de su biografía personal como viajera, traductora y encuentracosas. La maquetación del libro, realizada con el ojo estético de Lyuba Haleva, una de las ilustradoras búlgaras contemporáneas más destacadas, capta de forma espléndida y humorística el espíritu y el carácter de los relatos. De esta forma, el propio libro se convierte en un objeto bello, placentero y alegre, para leer y releer; un libro que poseer y regalar.

Translated from Bulgarian to Spanish by Marco Vidal
Written in Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova
10 minutes read

Цветове на лотос, които се затварят (когато влезеш в тях) (Пътят на перцепциониста)

Translated from Serbian to Bulgarian by Tsvetomira Mladenova
Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić
6 minutes read

Sonia podnosi rękę

Translated from Romanian to Polish by Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev
Written in Romanian by Lavinia Braniște
5 minutes read

Barbaren in het Romeinse Rijk

Translated from Italian to Dutch by Lies Lavrijsen
Written in Italian by Fabio Guidetti
9 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Ukranian by Paulina-Ionela Onujec
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
6 minutes read

Нещотърсач: 44 (не)обикновени предмета от близо и далеч

Както подсказва подзаглавието ѝ, книгата Нещотърсач съдържа истории за 44 предмета от близо и далеч. Любопитната и разнообразна селекция, подредена тематично, включва изненадващи находки от целия свят: ботуши от Бутан, тротоарни плочки от Барселона по дизайн на Гауди, чаши за вино от Страната на баските, брошка с формата на сърце от Сараево, еспадрили от Пиренеите, скарабеи от Древен Египет, кутия с боклук от Ню Йорк, парче оранжев плат от “Плаващите кейове” в езерото Изео, словенски звънящ змей, карта на Източен Берлин и много други. Разказвайки историите на конкретните предмети, Екатерина Петрова всъщност разказва и за местата, откъдето те произлизат – Кюстендорф и Катманду, Любляна и Луизиана, Белведере и Билбао, Селчук и Сентръл парк – като същевременно ги поставя в по-широк езиков, културен, исторически, антропологичен или географски контекст. Находчива смесица между пътеписи, есета и разкази, текстовете са внимателно проучени и подплатени с любопитни факти, но пречупени през субективния поглед на авторката, както и личната ѝ биография на пътешественик, преводач и нещотърсач. Художествено претворено през естетското око на Люба Халева, една от най-забележителните съвременни български илюстраторки, оформлението на книгата чудесно и с чувство за хумор улавя духа и настроението на историите. По този начин самата книга също се превръща в красив, носещ удоволствие и радост предмет – за четене и препрочитане, за притежаване и подаряване.

Written in Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova
9 minutes read

Automobil iz stare Grčke

Translated from Czech to Serbian by Uroš Nikolić
Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl
9 minutes read

La voz de Sulina

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Pablo Martín Sánchez
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
8 minutes read

Lungo i binari

Translated from Bulgarian to Italian by Giorgia Spadoni
Written in Bulgarian by Nevena Mitropolitska
10 minutes read

Il tempo è un cerchio

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Maria Alampi
Written in Romanian by Andrei Crăciun
10 minutes read

Alguns meses mais tarde

Translated from Slovenian to Portugese by Barbara Jursic
Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman
10 minutes read
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