Volume 3 in our annual panoply of transadaptations traverses the lives of young adults from America to South Africa, Uruguay to Ukraine as we crisscross the globe once again this year. Nine regular international authors and three new ones (from Germany, the United Kingdom and Syria) have divulged more secrets about the romantic way of life, which our editors Yuri Smirnov and Henry Whittlesey have framed for you in a lengthy foreword on the role of literary fiction at the beginning of the third millennium.

The collection begins with Gennady Bondarenko humorously documenting the assignments of a journalist in Ukraine (before the war). The relaxed attitude he embodies stands in sharp contrast to the stressed guidance counsellor Dr. Rose in Talia Stott's story 5-4-3-2-1, which transpires in America. Back on the Canary Islands (El Hierro) with Edelmiro, Luisa, the cat Kunta, Amelia and her friends, Jonay Quintero Hernández continues the dramatic tale of their flight from Madrid (in volume 1). Meanwhile, over in South Africa, Sarah-Leah Pimentel's protagonist plays a prank on a macho against the backdrop of the social tension in the early aughts. Returning to the Western world, we relive the trials of commencing on a career in Ina Maria Vogel's story Wanderlust. The theme of hardship in the liminal phase of finishing school in Uruguay is recounted by Alejandra Bacchino in The Test. Picking up on the development of Julie, whom we know from previous volumes, Armine Asryan (Nane Sevunts) now describes her trips in Armenia between not only reality and unreality, but also different millennia in The Planet of Pleasure. Another familiar face, Pat, and her friends in Cuba have now reached the point of preparing for babies, despite all the additional issues these young professionals have in Getting Ready for New Borns by Marilin Guerrero Casas. The end of a relationship in young adulthood also figures prominently in the collection: In Turkey, a young couple breaks up in Seyit Ali Dastan's story Remembering, while in A Life Rekindled by Lauren Voaden and Regrets by Kate Korneeva the lead protagonists recall past relationships in the United Kingdom and Russia. Finally, Diana Haidar relates the harrowing escape of a teenager interned in a Syrian institution.

This anthology infects us again with the poetry of perypatetik romanticism as we attempt to survive in the leitculture of pragmatism.

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