02/06/2026
☀️Longer days, warmer weather, and plenty of books to discover.☀️
Here's our monthly reading list. 📚 📚 📚
1️⃣ Los días de Vidrio, Nicoletta Verna, Duomo (Spain) – translated from Italian by Maribel Campmany
Set in a small Italian town under dictatorship, the novel follows Redenta, a young woman marked by superstition and misfortune, whose life becomes intertwined with Iris, an educated woman involved in the resistance. As war, fear, and political repression shape their world, their alternating stories reveal hidden secrets, silent resilience, and the quiet strength of two women navigating a violent era.
2️⃣ Teo od 16 do 18, Raluca Nagy, Pauza (Polish) – translated from Romanian by Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev
A subversive fairy tale, a thrilling coming-of-age adventure, and an irreverent reimagining of the Gospels, Teo from 16 to 18 boldly confronts biopolitical and patriarchal forms of oppression. One of the standout achievements of recent Romanian fiction, it is a fresh, complex, and visionary novel destined to become a contemporary classic.
3️⃣ The Minister, Stefan Bošković, Sandorf Passage (USA) – translated from Serbian (Montenegro) by Will Firth
There is nothing easy about being the Minister of Culture of Montenegro, but the next nine days for Valentin Kovačević will be especially difficult. Participating in an artist’s performance, he has accidentally killed her, and now, if Kovačević is to maintain both his position and his sanity, he must successfully navigate the murky corridors of government bureaucracy, cultural customs, and family pressures.
4️⃣ Η αρχαιολογία του αποχαιρετισμού, Raquel Martinez-Gomez, Vakxikon Publications (Greece) – translated from Spanish by Tina Terzioti
A novel about a writer who attempts to discover her own path through the ruins of the lives of others. Through memories, historical documents, joys and disappointments, a course is traced from Paris in World War I to Cuba and Mexico in the 20th century.
🎨 Marta Cartu
