Fiction in Translation

An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science fiction in a mediation on the t...

Set in post-war Oslo and following on from Echoes of a City, by an author who understands the city like no other.One of Norway's finest writers GUA...

A kind of miracle Not only made me laugh (again and again) but brought tears to my eyes Jonathan Franzen One of the most brilliant satir...

So much to relish here . . . the plot is gripping, there''s a beautifully handled thread on reading and writing, and the writing is just lovely! ...

The memories we return to most frequently are the most inaccurate, the least faithful to reality...This is the tragic realisation made by the narra...

In these tense, macabre stories, bodies fall from the sky, perfect nails conceal grisly secrets and violence pulses behind gleaming façades. From h...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our ...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 20201872. The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho ...

Author of International Booker Finalist Not a RiverLeni crossed her arms, said nothing, and watched the fight unfold. She was like a bored onlooker...

Malloban is set in North Calcutta in the winter of 1929. The eponymous protagonist, a lower-middle-class office worker, lives in College Street-a l...

From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing ...

Out running errands, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. Hiding it from her husband and children, she b...

A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Outrageously entertaining' The TimesREVENGE IS WORTH WAITING FOR... Jamal loves to run. But one morning - as he is...

Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. Alternating fragments from Yamina's Algerian past with those of her Paris present, Discretion...

Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, record...

Rajinder Singh Bedi: Selected Short Stories curates some of the best work by the Urdu writer, whose contribution to Urdu fiction makes him a pivota...

Rooted in the author's firsthand experience as an East German who bore witness to the fall of the Berlin Wall at the age of sixteen, Distant Signs ...

There are three ways to face life: put up with it, fight or flee. After eight years in Turkey, Gul leaves her native Anatolia and returns to Germa...

Amal shocks the whole neighbourhood by beating up her classmate Younes. Her father defends her behaviour and encourages her to assert herself. From...

Told with great affection for his characters, Selim Özdoans trilogy traces out the life of Gül, a Turkish girl who grows up in rural 1950s Anatolia...

The most anticipated book on the centenary birth anniversary of Satyajit RayAn amazingly brilliant collection of Satyajit Ray's previously unpublis...

Life is a brief, waking dreambut who casts the spell? Two striking women, Kamala and Shaly, helm an unusual household, fueled by their intense, tem...

Historical fiction meets fantasy in The Book of Perilous Dishes, a playful tale of dark magic and epic adventure that traverses Europe at the turn ...

  This book is stunning, phenomenal, wow. Cecelia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love You WINNER OF THE FINLANDIA PRIZE Seven women meet in a white, un...

ONE AMAZING STORY. TWO DIFFERENT ENDINGS.At the end of Perumal Murugan's trailblazing novel One Part Woman, readers are left on a cliffhanger as Ka...

Originally published in Dutch in 2017, this essay is a critique on the intellectual hold of destructive, non-sustainable capitalism on Western thou...

The Prize-winning International Bestseller When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what ma...

Im not on good terms with the present day, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky once mused, but posterity loves me. Virtually unknown during his lifetime and u...

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation'Wang Xiaobo is a truly...

'Cool, meticulously crafted and mordantly amusing' Irish Times 'A chilling insight into a flawed justice system' Daily Mail A young lawyer puts as...

'Devastating and fascinating' New York Times'Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose' ObserverA group of respectable family men are charged with the br...

The third instalment in a prize-winning series charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the R...

The point of departure for this special issue of Alif is that knowledge is 'produced' rather than 'discovered,' and that translation is a core mech...

It was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I was doing badly, you see. Everything was going wrong. I just awaite...

Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Ta...

For decades, a secret network in Stockholm has been exploiting young girls, ruthlessly eliminating anyone who threatens to reveal their secret. As ...

  Dead clients are bad for business, something that Tom Winter, head of security at a private Swiss bank, knows only too well. When a helicopter e...

A NEW TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, AUTHOR OF WAR HORSEMeet the Little Prince, a young fellow who hails from a tiny, distant planet. He loves to...