Fiction in Translation

The greatest exponent of the policier at work today Mark Sanderson, The TimesUndercover police officer Adam Sirkis needs to flee Syria. He knows it...

Communication--or the lack thereof--is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque.

This classic Romanian novel lends valuable psychological insight into the tragic situation confronting minorities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire du...

LONGLISTED FOR THE PRIX GONCOURT 2022 'Beguiling' Daily MailFrom the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes the story of one mans...

A literary phenomenon The TimesDespentes' writing is intelligent, outspoken, witty, shocking, propulsive and streetwise Times Literary SupplementTH...

Text in Arabic. A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles - in an uncanny and...

Text in Arabic. Tense and tightly woven, Thiqah is a dramatic novel set in Paris during World War II about a woman whose lover is accused of workin...

An unbreakable, life-changing friendship will lead two young girls from different worlds to rebel against the sexism, prejudice and in...

Michael Harney's translation of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares is the most authoritative and accurate rendering of Cervantes's classic tales to dat...

Coal mines have become rare, but the miners of Germinal are immortal. This new edition of the novel, with a translation by Raymond MacKenzie, is an...

Coal mines have become rare, but the miners of Germinal are immortal. This new edition of the novel, with a translation by Raymond MacKenzie, is an...

Text in Arabic. Afghanistan in the 1970s: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-flying tournament and his loyal friend Hassan pro...

Text in Arabic. Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and ...

Text in Arabic. Lucrecia, a young, poor and illiterate girl in sixteenth-century Madrid, living in the court of Filipe II, has terrible visions ann...

Text in Arabic. Nine disparate women, unknown to each other, are brought together by a tenth, a therapist, to share their stories. Regardless of th...

Text in Arabic. Gregorio is a middle-aged clerk, grey and ordinary, whose youthful aspirations for an exciting, more fulfilling life have faded com...

Text in Arabic. Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, Qalam an-Najjar charts the linked destinies of Dr Daniel Da Barca, the Republican wh...

In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shiverin...

Bounded by dense Kodagu forests on the south and west, and rivers on the north and east, Perumbadi, at the border between Kerala and Karnataka, has...

In its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a Frenchmans erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer of the Romantic period  In 181...

The million-copy bestselling series.Toshikazu Kawaguchis poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: w...

The million-copy bestselling series.Toshikazu Kawaguchis poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: w...