Fiction in Translation

On the face of it, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin two icons of the twentieth century couldn t be more different. One is the grand statesman ...

Summoned from Vienna to Frankfurt to testify at the Auschwitz trials, Heiner meets Lena, who is working at the court as a translator. As the trial ...

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...

The stories collected here illuminate two recent phenomena in China. The first migrationthe up to the mountains, down to the villages movement of t...

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed...

The Tables of the Law recounts the early life of Moses, his preparations for leading his people out of Egypt, the exodus itself and the incidents ...

The first novel which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Not that he looked like a ...

In Young Light, novelist Ralf Rothmann paints a delicate portrait of a twelve-year-old boy named Julian growing up in a mining community in 1960s G...

A radiant work of fiction that illuminates the life and art of Rimbaud in a way that no biography could  Rimbaud the Son, widely celebrated upon it...

Longlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize Since she's been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory. Lalla Fatma thi...

The Sevilla Mendoza family, long-time residents of the Sardinian coast, are not quite what you'd call 'conventional'. At the heart of the family is...

Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russias serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy g...