Fiction in Translation

First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre''s first and only collection ...

Set in an unspecified island kingdom, A Regicide tells the story of the statistician Boris who, after the electoral victory of the Church party in ...

In order to repay a small debt, the young student Mitya is persuaded by a friend to falsify a bank bond and cash it in. Little does he suspect that...

Warning: This story is narrated by a gorilla. He is plucked from the jungle. He learns to chat and passes the ultimate test: a cocktail party. Even...

Considered by many to be the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureates defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told throu...

The Knot in the Rug encapsulates the massive upheavals of the first half of twentieth century from a point of view that the English-speaking reader...

Ahmed, a society photographer in a celebrated Cairo nightclub, witnesses a friend horrifically killed in a fight between young business rivals. For...

The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition in a shopping arcade of a crocodile owned by a Germa...

In The Death of a Civil Servant, an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embar...

The seven stories that compose Regrowth (Vidervuks) might shock readers familiar with accounts of the Holocaust marked by mournful and sentimental ...

IN THE BEGINNING goes back to the poet's life before her arrest, interweaving her experiences of growing up in Odessa with those of her childhood f...

When Finnish police investigator Anna Feketes bag is stolen on holiday in the Balkan village of her birth, she is pulled into a murder investigatio...

Zeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the least explored cont...

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suici...

Gabons first female novelist, Angèle Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before herMariama Bâ and Aminata Sow Fallhad be...

Reflecting distinct and important stages in the career of the preeminent Algerian writer Mohammed Dib, At the Cafe and The Talisman brings toge...

For Summer reading Banipal 47 ­ Fiction from Kuwait Fiction from Kuwait presents a selection of contemporary literature from the novels and short ...

At the beginning of America's occupation of Iraq, 15 years after leaving Baghdad, Zeina returns to her war-torn homeland as an interpreter for the ...

When young and handsome Othman married Sofia-sophisticated, French, rich, and forty years his senior-he found his ticket out of a life of desperate...

Meet Hatem el-Shenawi, a Muslim TV preacher who has won fame and fortune through his show delivering Islam to the masses. Affable, sharp-witted, an...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret...