Fiction in Translation

Fathers and Children, arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, shocked readers when it was first published in 1862 - t...

Worm Story was originally published in 1985, and was adapted for the screen in 2007 by Lee Chang-dong as Secret Sunshine starring Jeon Do-yeon and ...

It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to meTaking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' po...

The first in a series of books that have taken Europe by storm and are soon to be filmed, featuring a chemist-turned-sleuth who battles ignorance a...

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

Jean Daragane, writer and recluse, has purposely built a life of seclusion away from the Parisian bustle. He doesn't see many people, he rarely goe...

This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literatur...

WINNER OF THE 2011 CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER. A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER. AND SOON TO BE A HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER - SCANDINAVIAN CRIME DOES NO...

The foremost Proust scholar of our time offers a brilliantly revised and annotated edition of the first volume of the twentieth centurys most accla...

'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to...

Why did he return to Beirut? Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling f...

A writer discovers a set of notes in his notebook and sets off on a journey through the Paris of his past, in search of the woman he loved forty ye...

Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But when they reach Ve...

Wry, satirical and bawdy, Tamer's stories are always informed by his dark view of humanity and of Syrian society in particular. Through these glimp...

Marcore, first published in Rio de Janeiro in 1957, won the coveted prize for fiction awarded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters and has been prai...

The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world. Most likely written by an advisor ...

'A complex tale of revolution, displacement, delusional love' GuardianIn Damascus, Suleima and Naseem's relationship is torn apart by the outbreak ...

c.1000 AD: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland1492: Christopher Columbus does not discover America1531: the Incas invade EuropeCivil...