Fiction in Translation

Summoned home to Egypt after a long European debauch (disguised as study), our hero Teymourin the opening line of A Splendid Conspiracyis feeling a...

He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a...

Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernández, a writer like no other, as Italo Calvino declare...

In Paris, Montreal, Seville, Berlin, and towns large and small, Diane Meur has dreamt - and she has remembered her dreams. In this small volume the...

Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a n...

Dmitry Rudin, a high-minded gentleman of reduced means, arrives at the estate of Darya Mikhailovna, where his intelligence, eloquence and convictio...

Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and W...

A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of Iceland's most celebrated writers.At the beginning of this story there is death, an...

On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issuebut things looked . . . different. Quieter. The sensations of t...

When Abwehr Captain Eberhard Mock is called from his New Year's Eve revelries to attend a particularly grisly crime scene, even his notoriously rob...

At eighteen, Somlata married into the Mitras: a once noble Bengali household whose descendants have taken to pawning off the family gold to keep up...

This is the first complete English-language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century....

THE THIRD INSTALMENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIES OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE With a stalker on the loose and ...

When Father Almida is summoned to an audience with the parish's principal benefactor, a stand-in is found in Father Matamoros, a drunkard with an a...

The day is Friday, May 22, 2032. On this day, the day after his ninety-fourth birthday, a man is sitting in a beautiful garden. It is a paradise wh...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'The palm trees around the railway station were motionless, fixed in a Saharan sun . . . It reall...

Professor Kristian Storm worked tirelessly on vaccination programmes protecting children in West Africa. But shortly after his research hit upon a ...

A morose provincial inspector of roads in Aragon settles down to write the fable of the Snow Queen. The Netherlands has now been stretched into a v...

Why did he return to Beirut? Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling fr...

In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Van, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, an...

Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Airess shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt,...

This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matass trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture deli...

Joseph Roth paints a vivid portrait of Emperor Napoleons last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at ...

Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the...

Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conver...

This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literatur...

Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when 'men became boys and housewives women',...

Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakias postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Journeyof Our...

Now in paperback, the touching, timely story of an Iraqi refugee in Germany. In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its after...

Gerda Persson has lain dead for three days. Her life seems to have been quite ordinary. Until the freezer in her home is opened. It is full of book...

An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone i...

Annemarie Schwarzenbach has become a European cult figure for bohemian free spirits since the rediscovery of her works in the late 1980s. Lyric Nov...

Born too late to see the war and too early to forget it. So writes Reiner Schurmann in Origins, a startlingly personal account of life as a young ...

Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space. By pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space...

In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who left twenty year...

A man scours the town he left fifty years ago for some modest evidence of past joys. Javed, who has returned to Lahore from East Pakistan, won't sp...

One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight a lion lying on the floor as if it's the most natural t...

The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan moves between anarchic campuses, maddening communist factories, and the victims of China's eco...

The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Zhu Y...

When a meteor crashes into greaser Rockabillys backyard, a ripple of strange events ensues. The tattoo of a pin-up girl on his back comes to life a...

In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to ove...

Translated by David Short Foreword by Rajendra Chitins Burying the Season is an affectionate, multi-layered account of small town life in central ...

France's greatest food critic is dying, after a lifetime in single-minded pursuit of sensual delights. But as Pierre Arthens lies on his death bed,...

A stock boy is found to have made an expensive Matsusaka cow vanish from the cattle house right before shipment. But the question remains: How and ...

Journalist Takashi Hayami meets Ai Katsuragi, a member of a religious organization, Tenmu Jinshinko, which meets secretly at the tomb of the Empero...

In this novel-length road story, the female protagonist, who is haunted by an audio hallucination twenty ells of linen are worth a coat that plays...