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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

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

Tri!

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

Nec mergitur

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

Втеча (Математика злочину)

Translated from Czech to Ukranian by Olha-Anastasiia Futoran
Written in Czech by Magdalena Sodomková
9 minutes read

El comienzo infinito

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

Zítra

Translated from Portugese to Czech by Štěpánka Huláková
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
7 minutes read

Sulinin glas

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
6 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

Fuga (Matematica unei crime)

Translated from Czech to Romanian by Andrei Săndulescu
Written in Czech by Magdalena Sodomková
10 minutes read

L'evoluzione di un dente

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
9 minutes read

Krimski roman

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

Premisliti si

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Katja Petrovec
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
6 minutes read

Stația de epurare a apei

Translated from Czech to Romanian by Mircea Dan Duță
Written in Czech by Anna Háblová
11 minutes read

Domani

Translated from Portugese to Italian by Elisa Rossi
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
8 minutes read

Fili

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Francesco Panzeri
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
8 minutes read

De evolutie van een kies

Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
9 minutes read

Jericho

Translated from Italian to Czech by Monika Štefková
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
7 minutes read

Evoluția măselei

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Alexa Stoicescu
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
9 minutes read
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