Tequio in Mexico, auzolan in Basque

Country, lumbung in Indonesia, ubuntu in South Africa, mutirão

in Brazil – all terms used around the world to describe the concept of

collective work. Bringing together 8 publishing houses and 7 writers, each

writing in a different language, Lumbung Stories is a true product of communal

action.From speculative essays and experimental texts to intimate

stories that portray collective work as something every day and habitual, each

writer presents their unique take on what a “lumbung story” is. These tales

take us from olive groves in Andalusia to tiger-filled forests in Indonesia;

from youths fumbling through adolescence together in the Basque country, to

outsiders uniting through vibrant rituals in São Paulo, and from explorations

of intergenerational and transhistorical struggle in South Africa, to an

academic text from a society rebuilding in a post-Capitalist,

post-climate-crisis future.Blurring the lines between realism and fiction, the past and

the future, this unique and powerful collection brims with life and is a vital

reminder of the ties that unite us all.