Fiction in Translation

Cristiano is thirteen. Home life is far from perfect. When his father and two friends come up with a plan to rob a bank, Cristiano sees the chance ...

EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY, SOMETIMES . . .Lorenzo Cuni is a fourteen-year-old loner. His wealthy parents think he is away on a school skiing trip, b...

INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBØAFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTERNineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the ...

A suspicious device is found inside a suitcase near a nursery in Holon, Tel Aviv. The children are taken to safety; a man is caught fleeing the sce...

An unnamed narrator visits her friend, the girl who is getting married, in her apartment on the fifth floor of an anonymous building. With each fli...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep?...

Subtitled An Exploration of the Musico-Erotic, this novel is an experiment in blurring the boundaries between the syntax of music and that of poetr...

A tale of violence, lofty ideals, and moral ambiguity, Fontaine''s best-selling novel is now available in a superb English translation Set in the d...

Acclaimed poet and translator Sarah Ruden brilliantly brings Apuleius's comic tale to life  A rollicking ride well worth the fare, . . . marvelousl...

Endorsed by Amnesty International. Imagine if war broke out not in Iraq or Afghanistan, somewhere far far away, but here, in our country. In War, ...

This new English translation of the Faroe-Islander Saga (Faereyinga saga)--a great medieval Icelandic saga--tells the story of the first settler...

The Village, Ivan Bunin's first full-length novel, is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of t...

The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo and signs of affection ...

This book's power lies in its depiction of civilians trying to lead ordinary lives during the horror of war . . . It is shattering stuff, but Rothm...

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE Do you ever feel like youre not speaking the same language? Swedish immigrant Kristin wont talk about her ...