Fiction in Translation

THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER An anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel ...

'A fantastically moody, unsettling novel, with a teasing, enigmatic atmosphere entirely its own' SARAH WATERS 'Intensely lyrical and powerfully hau...

A modern-day Wuthering Heights from the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life. Two families, one devastating secret, and an epic story...

A glimpse into the world of young people, modern nomads, roving in search of a new and promising life.The Moon in Foil traces the stories of Petra,...

A riveting novel that is both an indictment and an elegy, a second-person memoir of Nassers final months in the voice of his former prisoner.   In...

Now's not the time to think. Now's the time to feel. A taxi ride, a train trip, a family photo: in About Us, seemingly unremarkable journeys and m...

Tender, terrifying, and heart-rending . . . A must read GEETANJALI SHREE, author of International Booker Prize-winning Tomb of SandA Fistful of Moo...

A bestseller in Germany, Walter Kempowski's autobiographical novel is a sensorial coming of age story during the years of World War II and a chilli...

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and he...

'One of Japan's most venerated writers' David MitchellIn this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' ret...

From the author of The Picture Bride, two womens lives and identities are intertwined through World War II and the Korean War revealing the harsh...

'One of the great novels of the 20th century' ObserverIn April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will cu...

'Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist' GuardianIt is 1795 and e...

The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human n...

'Platonov is an extraordinary writer, perhaps the most brilliant Russian writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThe Soviet Don Qu...

'A tense and exhilarating read' Le Figaro 'You'll devour this novel' Express 'This novel brings you to the rawest edges of what our humanity become...

'An intimate story from the family archive, a story that is also the infamous history of our continent' Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children A...

Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of...

The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writersKoji, a young student, has fallen hopele...

Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now...

Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles me...

'Powerful, poignant, perfectly-pitched . . . It's a short tale of great significance. I found it unforgettable. . . a fine piece of writing' Michae...

From internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg, the series that is a gripping addition to the Scandinavian crime fiction pantheon (Oprah D...