Fiction in Translation

Valentin and Molina seemingly share little other than a cell in this queer classic ahead of its time.'Dazzling... a triumph' ObserverSometimes they...

An absolutely prime slice of Scandicrime . . . the writer channels her professional expertise into a noteworthy domestic thriller Barry Forshaw, F...

A second blistering crime novel set in France''s most notorious suburb, by a police officer turned million-copy bestseller and key writer on Spir...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER IN TRANSLATION Disturbing and powerful I loved it - Leïla Slimani, author of Lullaby 'Icy and chilling... In sharp...

If you, like me, come into the world white and completely blank, with nothing on you at all, you are totally dependent on what they make of you. A...

The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost incorporates Korean folk tales, ghost stories, and myth into a phenomenal depiction of epic tragedy. Written by...

Set against the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard tells the story of Ben Isaac, a ...

'This is the story of about the strangest thing that I've ever encountered, old art dealer that I am.' It is perhaps the finest art collection of ...

Chemmeen tells the story of the relationship between Karutthamma, a Hindu woman from the fisherfolk community, and Pareekkutty, the son of a Muslim...

Every Thursday for three years, Signora Giulia takes the train to Milan to visit her daughter. But one Thursday she simply disappears. And the case...

'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Cauca...

This acclaimed novel is set during the Lebanese Civil War and offers a rare depiction of women''s experiences amid this sprawling, region-defining ...

Nada is no stranger to protest. She is five years old when her French mother takes her to visit her Egyptian father, a political activist with a pa...

Captain Murad is busy planning for the Afterlife.He dreams of a grand, sunlit mausoleum on the banks of the Nile.To realize his pharaonic folly, th...

It's been twenty-five years since the Overflow flooded Southern Europe, drowning Rome, Vienna and Istanbul, and turning Paris into a major port. At...

Turgenevs final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to go to the people by working on the land...

A Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but ...

'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.' Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a fa...

This novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered by Muhammad Ali's mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2...

Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Mutazz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Mutazz has enoug...