Fiction in Translation

***Longlisted for the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger 2023***If there's an entry point into the work of the enduring, award-winning Italian writer ...

A beautifully crafted novel set in the late 1960s and 1970s Italy, a tempestuous period that shaped the lives of generations to come in many countr...

An inventive collection of stories by one of the most prominent and acclaimed writers in Hungary today. The Birth of Emma K., a collection of tw...

Universally acclaimed as the master of the short-story form, Anton Chekhov begun his literary career as the author of brief tales and vignettes of ...

From multi-million copy bestselling authors Giacometti & Ravenne comes a Nazi spy thriller for fans of Dan Brown, Steve Berry and Wilbur SmithI...

In Joseph Roth''s book, the story of Napoleon''s last snatch at glory is framed both through the eyes of Bonaparte and his infatuated young laundre...

First published in France in 2012 to critical and popular acclaim, this is the first book about the remarkable American actress and filmmaker Barba...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even mo...

Cuban writer Ivan Cardenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan qui...

First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogols Dead So...

Daniela Hodrova shares her unique perception of Prague, through playful poetic prose, and by imaginatively blending historical and cultural motifs ...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had real...

The town of Sarmada, Arabic for ''''perpetuate'''' or ''''the eternally-not-changed'''', is the novel''''s fictitious setting. Women are the protag...

**SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES**A pulse-racing Harry Hole thriller that will keep you guessing till the finale page.'This tale of revenge has ...

In the Viennese autumn of 1909, famed actor Eugen Bischoff is driven to suicide. All eyes are on Baron von Yosch, who was once the lover of the dea...

'He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold a...

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left only a few other ...

From the bestselling author of The Librarian of Auschwitz, Antonio Iturbe, comes a captivating historical novel based on a true story the extraord...

The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other.The my...

Valentin and Molina seemingly share little other than a cell in this queer classic ahead of its time.'Dazzling... a triumph' ObserverSometimes they...

An absolutely prime slice of Scandicrime . . . the writer channels her professional expertise into a noteworthy domestic thriller Barry Forshaw, F...

A second blistering crime novel set in France''s most notorious suburb, by a police officer turned million-copy bestseller and key writer on Spir...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER IN TRANSLATION Disturbing and powerful I loved it - Leïla Slimani, author of Lullaby 'Icy and chilling... In sharp...

If you, like me, come into the world white and completely blank, with nothing on you at all, you are totally dependent on what they make of you. A...

The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost incorporates Korean folk tales, ghost stories, and myth into a phenomenal depiction of epic tragedy. Written by...

Set against the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard tells the story of Ben Isaac, a ...

'This is the story of about the strangest thing that I've ever encountered, old art dealer that I am.' It is perhaps the finest art collection of ...

Chemmeen tells the story of the relationship between Karutthamma, a Hindu woman from the fisherfolk community, and Pareekkutty, the son of a Muslim...

Every Thursday for three years, Signora Giulia takes the train to Milan to visit her daughter. But one Thursday she simply disappears. And the case...

'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Cauca...

This acclaimed novel is set during the Lebanese Civil War and offers a rare depiction of women''s experiences amid this sprawling, region-defining ...

Nada is no stranger to protest. She is five years old when her French mother takes her to visit her Egyptian father, a political activist with a pa...

Captain Murad is busy planning for the Afterlife.He dreams of a grand, sunlit mausoleum on the banks of the Nile.To realize his pharaonic folly, th...

It's been twenty-five years since the Overflow flooded Southern Europe, drowning Rome, Vienna and Istanbul, and turning Paris into a major port. At...

Turgenevs final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to go to the people by working on the land...

A Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but ...

'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.' Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a fa...

This novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered by Muhammad Ali's mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2...

Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Mutazz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Mutazz has enoug...

A crucial work in Endo''s oeuvre, ''Volcano'' is a powerful novel of ideas as well as a sensitive and moving depiction of the trials of old age, se...

Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly b...

The Birds tells the story of Mattis, who is mentally retarded and lives in a small house near a lake with his sister Hege. From time to time she en...