Fiction in Translation

A little girl lives happily with her mother in war-torn Paris. She has never met her father, a prisoner of war in Germany. But then he returns and ...

Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wa...

What happens when the cops become the prey?'Arne Dahl is one of the true greats of Scandinavian crime fiction' MARK BILLINGHAMIt starts when Desiré...

Called the book lost and found in time by its author, Skylight is one of Saramagos earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers offic...

As he leaves the cinema where he has just watched Casablanca, one of his favorite films, Julien is approached by a mysterious young woman, Claire. ...

On its publication in German, Against the World was hailed as an immediate classic. One of the most spectacular debuts of recent decades, said Ku...

  A poignant story of three young adults trying to make a future for themselves in war-torn Damascus Syria - a country at war. Amal, Hammoudi and...

Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Growing up during the Nazi regime, she was forced ...

'A word of advice: don't start reading this page-turner at bedtime, or you'll be staying up all night.' Psychologies, FranceWerner Zilch was adopte...

Battles of Our Own (Nija Nija Panipatha) by Jagadish Mohanty (1951-2013), was published in 1990. It is set in the coal mining area of western Odish...

Set in 1940s Paris, this bittersweet international bestseller this is the perfect novel for fans of A Man Called Ove, My Name is Lucy Barton and T...

A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality of Pinochet's regim...

A lost classic lays bare the darkest moment of France's post-war historyFirst published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ...

A New York Times Notable Book 2018'A rebel French writer ... a brilliant storyteller, a master craftsman and one of France's most original writers'...

Ziya Bey has six months left to live. From his mansion on Farewell Fountain Street, the Ottoman aristocrat plans to tie up some questionable busine...

On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passio...

It is December 2001 and Argentina is in political and economic meltdown. Pablo Martelli, once in an elite branch of the police force known to all a...

An overlooked classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man's long and turbulent life in revolutionary Italy.At...

The brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writer War's mess and muddle, the brutality ...

'I have spent too long on plants and animals. Now it is time for human beings.' This haunting novel is based on the life of Anders Sparrman, the e...

Imagine being famous. Wouldn't that be great?'A real beauty of a book' - Jonathan Franzen'Riffs echo through this playful, perplexing landscape' - ...

Welcome to the house of the mosque . . . Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a suitor to kn...

A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of Alone in Berlin...

Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet troops have just invaded and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is suddenly turned on its head. At first there is re...

Told in the gentle tone of a fable, Jean-Claude Grumberg''s The Most Precious of Cargoes tells the moving story of a woman who wanted a child, and ...

Paul Scarrons masterpiece, The Comic Romance, recounts the adventures of a troupe of provincial itinerant actors, skilfully weaving multiple narrat...

An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov is running out of money and has recently divorced from his wife Tatyana, who in...

Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble. After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more successful contemporarie...

CSI meets Jack the Ripper in early 20th century Barcelona: captivating, scary and genre-breaking.In 1917, Barcelona's infamous Raval district is al...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves Maigret shrugged his shoulders, buried his hands in his pockets and went off...

'I know you'll return.' These are his grandmother's last words to him. Leo has them in his head as he boards the truck to Russia one freezing mid-...

A highly contagious book virus, a literary society and a Snow Queen-like disappearing author'She came to realise that under one reality there's alw...

Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Félix is summoned to the vertiginous twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlán and charged with finding the witnesse...

Shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeA novel of philosophy and love, po...

A comic fable from one of the masters of twentieth-century proseSzerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century Paul Bailey, Daily...

Romulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela's first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer...

A new translation of this gripping domestic tragedy, set in Simenon's very own neighbourhood.One by one the lighted windows went dark. The silhouet...

'A breath of fresh cold air . . . a dangerous edge to gladden fans of Lisbeth Salander' Boyd TonkinThe first in the Rebecka Martinsson series from ...

Young lawyer Alex Zabel defends industrialist Herbert Klofft in a case for wrongful dismissal being brought against him by his former employee and ...

Kati Hirschel, in her thirties, is the proud owner of Istanbul's only crime bookshop. When the German director of a film starring an old school fri...