🇲🇩Moldova

Russian-language Moldovan writer Lorchenkov combines satire with a story of labour migration. Grotesque comedy exposes both his characters’ desperation and persistence. Țîbuleac leads from satire to intense accounts of motherhood, childhood and language. Ciocan opens a window onto everyday Soviet Chișinău. Moldovan literature is understood here as multilingual and shared with Romanian contexts; a translation in both languages has not been verified for every book.