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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

Los confines

Translated from Polish to Spanish by Teresa Benítez
Written in Polish by Marta Hermanowicz
15 minutes read

Важка вода

Translated from Slovenian to Ukranian by Yuliia Stankevych
Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj
8 minutes read

Korytarz (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Anna Opara
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
7 minutes read

Koridor (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Klára Němcová
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
7 minutes read

Tri!

Translated from Czech to Serbian by Jelena Đorđević
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
7 minutes read

Em casa

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Lut Caenen
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
7 minutes read

Konec

Translated from Polish to Slovenian by Sara Hočevar Mucić
Written in Polish by Marta Hermanowicz
13 minutes read

Constantin. Een portret

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Charlotte van Rooden
Written in Romanian by Iulian Bocai
11 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Charlotte van Rooden
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
8 minutes read

Volviendo a casa

Translated from Italian to Spanish by Inés Sánchez Mesonero
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
9 minutes read

Nec mergitur

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Irene de la Torre
Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

El comienzo infinito

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Beatriz Jiménez
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
10 minutes read

Мълчанието идва първо

Translated from Romanian to Bulgarian by Valentina Zlateva
Written in Romanian by Ioana Maria Stăncescu
8 minutes read

Abbiamo sempre vissuto in questo paese

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
5 minutes read

Krimski roman

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

парченца град (schervenstad)

Translated from Dutch to Bulgarian by Elena Dimitrova
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
8 minutes read

Miraljesovi

Translated from Spanish to Serbian by Irena Selaković
Written in Spanish by Kike Cherta
8 minutes read

Miasto odłamków

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Marta Talacha
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
6 minutes read

O nosso pai

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Pedro Viegas
Written in Dutch by Lotte Lentes
8 minutes read
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