Fiction in Translation

Raymond Radiguet wrote the highly scandalous Devil in the Flesh between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, following his own love affair with a marr...

Constantinople in the mid-twelfth century saw the composition of the first sustained fictional narratives in the European world novels since late...

A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktalePerhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1...

Emilia Pardo Bazán, the most prolific and influential Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, was a very controversial figure, vilified fo...

Man and His Surroundings irreverently explores Soviet and post-Soviet identity, politics, and history. In what Iskander himself calls the books sem...

The million-copy bestselling seriesToshikazu Kawaguchis poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores t...

The tales of one family and their larger-than-many-lives sister, Antoine, weaves together the vibrant, epic story of Guadeloupe and its diaspora in...

The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo HigashinoOn the Nihonbashi Bridge...

In her most experimental work to date, Karla Marrufo Huchim explores universal themes with appreciable specificity: loneliness, family angst, memor...

Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafez is in love. He is in love with a girl, with a city, and with Persian poetry. Despite his enmity with the new and danger...

In outrageous, daring prose, Ventura Ametller tells the story of a young boy as he lives through the build-up to and outbreak of the Spanish Civil ...

WAS DESIRE SOMETHING LIKE BEING POSSESSED BY A NIGHTMARE? Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, insepara...

Grappling with metaphysical questions of suffering, death, and infinity, Antero de Quental's sonnets have been widely celebrated by writers and int...

**The international bestseller and the book behind the film and play Let Me In**'The new Stephen King' The TimesOskar and Eli. In very different wa...