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

Portrét

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Veronika Horáčková

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

6 minutes read

Portret

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Aleksandar Đokanović

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

6 minutes read

De denkbeeldige werelden van Edgar Kaos

Translated from Slovenian to Dutch by Marieke Haenebalcke

Written in Slovenian by Julija Lukovnjak

12 minutes read

Elogio dell’uragano

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano

4 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

Žive ograde

Translated from Polish to Serbian by Milica Kozić

Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska

10 minutes read

Oduvek smo živele u ovom selu

Translated from Spanish to Serbian by Ljubica Trošić

Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez

4 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

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

Žive meje

Translated from Polish to Slovenian by Sara Hočevar Mucić

Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska

10 minutes read

Ortensio

Translated from Italian to Spanish by Paula Caballero

Written in Italian by Maurizio Amendola

4 minutes read

Hvalnica orkanu

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Katja Petrovec

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano

3 minutes read

Portretul

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Irina Kappelhof Costea

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

7 minutes read

Um carro da Grécia antiga

Translated from Czech to Portugese by Stepanka Lichtblau

Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl

11 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Barbara Pavetto

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

8 minutes read

Un roman despre Crimeea

Translated from Ukranian to Romanian by Jessica Bilcec

Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova

9 minutes read