Fiction in Translation

Perhaps we identify with Emma because we too feel an emptiness at the center of thingsan emptiness we try to fill with books, with fantasies, with ...

From the author of Grey Souls and Brodeck's Report: a chilling island fable of murder, exploitation and complicityA parable about modern migration ...

One of the greatest love stories in world literature.-Vladimir Nabokov Anna Karenina is a perfect work of art. This novel contains a humane message...

A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassi...

By the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK, a radical and bold satire in inequitable times.Whizz-bang energy and gleeful imaginative savagery Sam Leith, Guar...

Meelya's dreams are her refuge from events that threaten her or escape her understanding. She leaves her home in Lebanon to live in Nazareth with h...

Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing offers new insight into what it means to write relational...

Libraries are magical places. But what if theyre even more magical than we know? In Cyrille Martinezs library, the books are alive: not just the...

For fans of Patricia Highsmith, Harriet Tyce, Jorn Lier Horst, Fred Vargas and Jean-Patrick Manchette.

The girl with the dragon tattoo is not given to forgiveness. Lisbeth Salander has been forged by a brutal childhood and horrific abuse. And repeat...

Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.-W.H. Auden The common experience of Kafkas readers is one of gen...

In the storm-swept landscapes of Normandy's coastline lies a village that might just be at the ends of the earth. A woman has recently arrived to s...

At least vultures have the decency to wait until their prey's dead before picking it apart ...After losing his wife and suffering a stroke, cantank...

1977. Poised between the secular values of socialism and the conservatism of a tenuously balanced government, Istanbul is a fractured city haunted ...

Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intr...

French Academician and Nazi sympathiser, Paul-Jean Husson, writes a letter to his local SS officer in the autumn of 1942. Tormented by an illicit p...

It is Christmas in the alpine town of Furth am See and a six-year-old girl is playing ludo with her grandfather. The doorbell rings, and the old ma...