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Young Hans arrives with one suitcase in a squalid village on the eastern edge of empire-a surreal postwar Austria. His uncle has died, and accordin...

On a sweltering ocean-liner travelling from India to Europe a passenger tells his story: the tale of a doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between...

This is a portrait of a wife betrayed, at first desperate to save her marriage but then intent on violent revenge, also an unrelenting dissection o...

Eliza Altairsky-Lointaine is the toast of Moscow society, a beautiful actress in an infamous theatre troupe. The estranged wife of a descendant of ...

A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to t...

The point of departure for this special issue of Alif is that knowledge is 'produced' rather than 'discovered,' and that translation is a core mech...

In this miniature masterpiece, Róbert Gálwhom Joshua Cohen has called a phenomenonconducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, u...

The cult novel of fin de siècle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde'It will be biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't give a damn! It will be so...

In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal''s work stands out as uniquely personal; it can be difficult to separate the fiction from Espedal''...

The thought-provoking new novel from the international bestselling author whose words change lives. Linda knows she's lucky. Yet every morning when...

''A novel of heartbreak told with intellectual rigor. It gripped me from first page to last. Fantastic!''Alice Sebold, the author of The Lovely Bon...

''A novel of heartbreak told with intellectual rigor. It gripped me from first page to last. Fantastic!''Alice SeboldWhen Ester Nilsson meets the a...

One of Elena Ferrante's best 40 books by female writersWhen Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, ...

A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of Iceland's most celebrated writers.At the beginning of this story there is death, an...

A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of Iceland''s most celebrated writers.At the beginning of this story there is death, a...

Though several decades have passed since the savage climax of Algeria's long and bloody war of independence, it still casts a long and haunting sha...

A sweeping historical epic by an author whose novels have sold over 6 million copies worldwide. 1861. A ruined silver-mine owner sets sail from M...

Composed in the 1630s, Giambattista Basiles The Tale of Tales, later known as the Pentameron, is a sophisticated, affectionate, often wicked parody...

n this novel, written by the esteemed novelist in 1901, a provincial composer and organist from Croatia struggles to find his way along the perilou...

In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hôtel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents, a place where middl...

The second of the Black Forest Investigations - Its plot bristles with invention GuardianWhen the fire brigade is called to a burning shed in the B...

Now on Netflix, the Commandant Servaz series: The Frozen DeadSunday Times Crime Book of the Month, August 2015The wronged do not rest in peaceMarsa...

A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of Alone in Berlin...

A tale of love, friendship, and hope, A Single Way To Happiness is the story of Tom - a young boy dying of cancer. Through the eyes of his caregive...

In 1980s Casablanca, Farah arrives from her small town life with big dreams: she wants to sing. She meets Outhman, but he longs to leave the city, ...

'The best early training for a writer is an unhappy childhood,' Hemingway famously said. Julia Kerninon, one of France's most acclaimed young novel...

Set in an unspecified island kingdom, A Regicide tells the story of the statistician Boris who, after the electoral victory of the Church party in ...