Fiction in Translation

A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin Americans feminist gothic. Across two different time periods, tw...

Arguably the most authoritative English translation of Polands great national poem.  Sometimes called the last epos in world literature, Pan Tadeus...

Arguably the most authoritative English translation of Polands great national poem.  Sometimes called the last epos in world literature, Pan Tadeus...

'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which p...

In 19th-century Sweden, Caesaria is kept in a doctor's mansion as a trophy: she is the first baby to be born alive from one of his c-sections. In a...

'A masterly performance' Evening StandardJoseph Roth's dark fable about a man torn between resolve and restlessness in Eastern Europe's borderlands...

A windswept, wave-tossed, altogether irresistible novel of literary suspense - I truly didn't want it to end A. J. FINNThere is no love lost betwee...

A moving portrayal of a troubled motherdaughter relationship, shortlisted for Japans prestigious Akutagawa Prize. In 2008, the unnamed narrator of...

THE WORST OF ENEMIES. THE BEST OF FRIENDS. A powerful, emotional novel of peace and friendship against the greatest of odds . . .1914. A boy enrols...

For thirty years, Huseyin has worked in Germany, taking every extra shift and carefully saving, even as he provides for his wife and their four chi...

'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro ...

From the stark depictions of rural Russia in Provincial Life to the vivid portrayal of an artillery unit in At the End of the Earth, from stories s...

In Bociany, Rosenfarb offers completely absorbing portrayals of Jews and Christians from several walks of life in the shtetl. Her primary character...

Levreros writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination, and nowhere more so than in this 1970 story collection. From the Escher-like gramma...

And do not relinquish the search  For that limitless light So that in the street, stars Morph into comets Extract from 'This Place (...)'    ...

In this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan Edmund WhiteWith the Se...

Celebrated Iranian novelist Ghazeleh Alizadehs The House of the Edrisis is a novel deeply rooted in historical and cultural significance inviting r...

An atmospheric and mysterious tale of love and death, set in a crumbling Breton castleAn isolated castle stands in a wild, desolate landscape, surr...

Alain Elkann's The French Father is an imagined confrontation between haughty Bourgeoisie and passionate Art - the former represented by Jean-Paul ...

A collection of funny and fantastical short stories, Marcel Aymé's The Man Who Walked through Walls (Le Passe-muraille), is a classic of French lit...

A highly contagious book virus, a literary society and a Snow Queen-like disappearing author'She came to realise that under one reality there's alw...