Fiction in Translation

One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better place...

A masterfully rendered volume of Chekhov''s stories from award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyChekhov''s genius left...

More than a decade ago, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa made his first visit to the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Police, where millions o...

'Always be civil to the girls. You never know whom they might marry.' Nancy Mitford, from her introduction to The Princess de Clèves When the young...

Appalling and tragic, Ognjen Spahic's exceptional short novel animates the misery of Ceasescu's Romania and its inglorious fall with a metaphor ful...

Gabriela Babnik's novel Dry Season breaks the mold of what we usually expect from a writer from a small, Central European nation. With a global per...

The Cost of Sugar is the historical story of Jewish family planters and their slaves in Suriname. Now a major motion picture, The Cost of Sugar gi...

'Farewell, Cowboy' is a tough yet poetic novel by one of Croatia's best known writers. The story is rich in local colour and sentiment, following t...

Sitor Situmorang, one of the most celebrated Indonesian literary voices of the twentieth century, claimed that all his work dealt with a single the...

Ignacio Matus is a public school history teacher in Monterrey, Mexico, who gets fired because of his patriotic rantings about Mexicos repeated humi...

Rashid al-Daifs provocative novel Whos Afraid of Meryl Streep? takes an intimate look at the life of a recently married Lebanese man. Rashoud and h...

The short-sighted adolescent is a passionate reader who takes various cultural figures as models, trying to emulate both their lives or their works...

Quiet Flows the Una is the story a man trying to overcome the personal trauma caused by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Th...

Byron and the Beauty is loosely based on Byron's biography and takes place during two weeks of October 1809, during his now famous sojourn in the B...

Catharine's trajectory in life is accompanied by failures in love, family traumas and an incredible romance with handsome Sinisa. The novel takes u...

In crisp, unembellished prose, Choi Eunyoung paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the ...

When a woman's body is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, investigators discover shocking secrets in her past. First in t...

The Sea Cloak is a collection of 11 stories by the author, journalist, and campaigner, Nayrouz Qarmout. Drawing from her own experiences growing up...

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The brand-new psychological suspense novel from the author of After She's Gone, soon to be a major motion picture starring Daisy Ridley.'DAZZLING O...

A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John BanvilleStefan Valeriu, ...

The vision he saw in his dream, a world in ruins and bereft of women-was that going to come true soon? If he could get married, he would live the ...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARYLittle Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination the child of a...

Ive planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset . Why dont you join me? Leave behind everything that didnt work...

A dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female characters centre stage i...

From the author of the bestselling Richard and Judy bookclub pick I'm Travelling Alone'Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money' Sunday Express'The lates...

Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur Jaeggy. Even among Jaeggys singular and intricate wo...

Social realism and fairy tale combine in Lucky Per, a bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees a restri...

Manuel is growing up in Franco's Spain. He adores his elder sister, María, and they are watched over by their mother, who enjoys reciting poetry, a...

When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefas latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by ...

The crime: Reykjavík, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, the police initially suspect a member of the Al...

Partly autobiographical and Yashpal's first novel, Dada Comrade is an extraordinary book, fast-paced and philosophical by turn. It tells the story ...

Based upon the author's own experiences of life, exile, and return under the dictatorship that gripped Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s, Freedom Sun i...

Quebec author An Antane Kapesh's two books, Je suis une maudite sauvagesse (1976) and Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays? (1979), are among the foregroundin...

NOW A MAJOR FILM'With air in its lungs and love in its heart' Guardian *****An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breath-taki...

When a depressed, alcoholic single mother disappears, everything suggests suicide, until her body is found on the lava fields. Icelandic Detective ...

A twenty-year-old murder A chain of unsolvable mysteries Can one detective solve this epic riddle?When a man is found murdered in an abandoned bu...

'A remarkable debut novel' Sunday Times'The best historical thriller I've read in twenty years' A.J. Finn'A thrilling, unnerving, clever and beauti...

Will the newest branch of a decaying house be bent or broken by these uncertain times? It has been six years since China threw off imperial rul...

'There were some weeks that were painful, nerve-racking. At the office or at home, in the middle of a meal, he would suddenly find his forehead bat...

A wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy's gothic imagination k...

A novel of growing up a Hungarian in Romania under Communism. In the novel Story of a Stammer, Gabor Vida asks a fundamental question: Where do...