Fiction in Translation

A gripping Psychological thriller about parenthood and loss, bullying and revenge!Kito is the only child of his adoptive parents. Chubby and dark-s...

Somewhere in Spain, Marc, an avid reader of the Philips Agricultural Guide, pegs mathematical formulas to clotheslines on the roof of an 8-storey b...

In this third volume of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anon...

Based on a real-life love triangle and later made into François Truffaut's famous New Wave film, Henri-Pierre Roché's Jules et Jim is a paean to yo...

Under the pseudonym Eza Boto, Mongo Beti wrote Ville cruelle (Cruel City) in 1954 before he came to the world's attention with the publication of L...

Sergey Gandlevsky is widely recognized as one of the leading living Russian poets and prose writers. His autobiographical novella Trepanation of th...

This is the limit - how far would you go?Helium-3 is a rare element that promises to solve all the world's energy problems - and it's been discover...

The crew of a French reconnaissance plane during the First World War consisted of just two men: a pilot and an observer. Two such men are Jean Herb...

Chandrasekhar Kambar is one of the most accomplished Indian writers working today. In each of Kambar's novels, the archetypical Mother, Karimayi, i...

From the author of The Ice Palace, winner of Bookslut''s Daphne Award for fiction, comes a new addition to the Peter Owen Modern Classics seriesT...

To avoid disappointment please note this novel was previously titled THE GALLOWS BIRD. Scandinavian crime sensation and No. 1 international bestsel...

What Waley did create is literary art of extraordinary beauty that brings to life in English the world Murasaki Shikibu imagined. The beauty of his...

Emilia Pardo Bazán, the most prolific and influential Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, was a very controversial figure, vilified fo...

Nikolai Gogols novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of reader...

Nikolai Gogols novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of reader...

In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to ove...

In a dilapidated and isolated old house, something peculiar seems to happen whenever the towns bestial exterminator visits. On a seemingly bucolic ...

In the wake of the Partition, a new country is born. As millions of refugees pour into Pakistan, swept up in a welter of chaos and deprivation, Saj...

This charming allegory, suitable for all age groups, is about a boy called Freedom. Born the son of gipsy tinkers, the boy is left outside a monast...

The Portuguese Antonio Pedro (1909-1966) was a cosmopolitan and multifaceted artist; one of the pioneers of surrealism in Portugal, both as a visua...