Fiction in Translation

Now in its tenth year, Best European Fiction continues to be an essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary ...

A Jesuit and an English ambassador make a journey to Petrograd across a gloomy, often desolate eighteenth-century Eastern Europe in order to sight ...

Sonka is the story of an old woman, lonely, forgotten, and shunned by her community, until one day a theater directors car breaks down near her hou...

The rich seam that is Jansson's adult prose continues with this penultimate collection of short stories, written in her seventies at the height of ...

'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?'A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community...

The writer-narrator of The Bulgarian Truck has hit upon a new technique for writing a novel, which he calls a building site beneath the open sky, b...

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

Petar, a devoted family man, leaves his apartment to buy some coffee and goes missing. While his wife is desperately looking for him, he finds hims...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves 'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all r...

Somewhere deep in the European forest they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, inspectors, artists, musicians, ac...

A family story of epic scale, by the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD and THE BELL IN THE LAKE.An intricate story about war, family, secrets and,yes, wood ...

By Norway''s bestselling novelist and the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale. An intricate story about war, family, secrets an...

Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna?Who exactly were Besfort Y and Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the b...

After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other lucky girls are sent to work at a posh underground night...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'When he had set them to work, Maigret had had a merry, almost fierce glint in his eye. He had se...

Nothing could please a chef more than a chance to learn the secrets of a Baron's castle kitchen. Having travelled the length and breadth of the cou...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell an...

I can assure you that no movie will ever achieve the speed of prose. Human beings just haven't realized that yet.--J?rg Laederach. With tongue reso...

German Sadulaev's follow-up to his acclaimed I am a Chechen! is set in a twenty-first century Russia, phantasmagorical and violent. A bitingly funn...

The hilarious second novel from actress and bestselling novelist Alona Kimhi holds up a comically warped mirror to contemporary Israel, as well as ...

Closing the gap between the contemporary Russian novel and the masterpieces of the early Soviet avant-garde, this masterful mixture of prose and po...

New work from the acclaimed author of The Crab Nebula and Palafox.