Andrew Singer is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University and Director and Editor-in-Chief of Trafika Europe (trafikaeurope.org).

• ContentsEditor’s Welcome1 – Wiesław Myśliwski: A Treatise on Shelling Beans (novel excerpt)2 – Aurélia Lassaque: The King of Golden Silk (a poem)3 – Māra Zālīte: Five Fingers (novel excerpt)4 – Christine DeLuca (five poems)5 – Marko Sosič: Ballerina, Ballerina (novel excerpt)6 – Vincenzo Bagnoli: Orpheus in the Underworld 1999 (Dead Times) (a poem)7 – Stefanie Kremser: The day I learned to fly (novel excerpt)8 – Edvīns Raups: then touch me here (ten poems)9 – Jón Kalman Stefánsson: The Heart of Man (novel excerpt) 10 – László Sárközi: Inner World (a poem)11 – Jóanes Nielson: The Brahmadells: A North Atlantic Chronicle (novel excerpt)12 – Nara Vardanyan – Amour (a short story)13 – Ewa Chrusciel (six poems)14 – Mandy Haggith (seven tree poems)A note about the photographsAcknowledgments

“Trafika Europe performs a unique service, helping to keep together, and actually helping to bind together, the diverse and often mutually unknown and unrecognized cultures of Europe through the most basic and effective means possible: the heart and the creative imagination. Literature is the great harmonizer, the road to the discovery of common roots and the prospect of a common destiny. Readers of Trafika Europe will benefit from the rich literary heritage of this great cultural sphere.”—Ervin László, founder and president of the Club of Budapest

Andrew Singer is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University and Director and Editor-in-Chief of Trafika Europe (trafikaeurope.org).

• ContentsEditor’s Welcome1 – Wiesław Myśliwski: A Treatise on Shelling Beans (novel excerpt)2 – Aurélia Lassaque: The King of Golden Silk (a poem)3 – Māra Zālīte: Five Fingers (novel excerpt)4 – Christine DeLuca (five poems)5 – Marko Sosič: Ballerina, Ballerina (novel excerpt)6 – Vincenzo Bagnoli: Orpheus in the Underworld 1999 (Dead Times) (a poem)7 – Stefanie Kremser: The day I learned to fly (novel excerpt)8 – Edvīns Raups: then touch me here (ten poems)9 – Jón Kalman Stefánsson: The Heart of Man (novel excerpt) 10 – László Sárközi: Inner World (a poem)11 – Jóanes Nielson: The Brahmadells: A North Atlantic Chronicle (novel excerpt)12 – Nara Vardanyan – Amour (a short story)13 – Ewa Chrusciel (six poems)14 – Mandy Haggith (seven tree poems)A note about the photographsAcknowledgments

“Trafika Europe performs a unique service, helping to keep together, and actually helping to bind together, the diverse and often mutually unknown and unrecognized cultures of Europe through the most basic and effective means possible: the heart and the creative imagination. Literature is the great harmonizer, the road to the discovery of common roots and the prospect of a common destiny. Readers of Trafika Europe will benefit from the rich literary heritage of this great cultural sphere.”—Ervin László, founder and president of the Club of Budapest

Andrew Singer is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University and Director and Editor-in-Chief of Trafika Europe (trafikaeurope.org).

• ContentsEditor’s Welcome1 – Wiesław Myśliwski: A Treatise on Shelling Beans (novel excerpt)2 – Aurélia Lassaque: The King of Golden Silk (a poem)3 – Māra Zālīte: Five Fingers (novel excerpt)4 – Christine DeLuca (five poems)5 – Marko Sosič: Ballerina, Ballerina (novel excerpt)6 – Vincenzo Bagnoli: Orpheus in the Underworld 1999 (Dead Times) (a poem)7 – Stefanie Kremser: The day I learned to fly (novel excerpt)8 – Edvīns Raups: then touch me here (ten poems)9 – Jón Kalman Stefánsson: The Heart of Man (novel excerpt) 10 – László Sárközi: Inner World (a poem)11 – Jóanes Nielson: The Brahmadells: A North Atlantic Chronicle (novel excerpt)12 – Nara Vardanyan – Amour (a short story)13 – Ewa Chrusciel (six poems)14 – Mandy Haggith (seven tree poems)A note about the photographsAcknowledgments

“Trafika Europe performs a unique service, helping to keep together, and actually helping to bind together, the diverse and often mutually unknown and unrecognized cultures of Europe through the most basic and effective means possible: the heart and the creative imagination. Literature is the great harmonizer, the road to the discovery of common roots and the prospect of a common destiny. Readers of Trafika Europe will benefit from the rich literary heritage of this great cultural sphere.”—Ervin László, founder and president of the Club of Budapest