Fiction in Translation

Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The one saving grace ...

Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the n...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a ba...

A dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul's Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officer - and he was murdered. But when Detective Barudi sets out...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray All that was still unclear, for sure. Ernest Malik had been right when he had looked at Maigret wi...

It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when he is face...

A sweeping historical epic by an author whose novels have sold over 6 million copies worldwide. 1861. A ruined silver-mine owner sets sail from M...

1991. A young man is mesmerised by the rolling coverage of Desert Storm. Forging sick notes to avoid work and feigning reasons to avoid his girlfri...

Introduced by David MitchellIn a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. Wit...

A family is torn apart by their dream of a better future in the West. A true story narrated through the eyes of a child. West Germany, early 1960...

Born into wealth and privilege, Rudolf Kerkhoven is destined to follow his father's footsteps into the Dutch colonies, with its uncleared jungle fo...

One night in 1968, on the eve of the Soviet invasion, 13 year-old Ondra and his younger brother Kamil are bundled into a coach bound for their fath...

Three young people, born thousands of miles apart, each cut themselves adrift from their birthplaces and set out to discover what - or who - might ...

Jerome is a calm man - at least, that's what he'd always believed. But when his daughter's boyfriend dies in an accident, he is overwhelmed by unex...

Having lost his parents at an early age, Niko has always looked to his older sister for protection. So when she starts wanting a life of her own, N...

It is four years since the virus came, killing every adult in its path. Not long after that the electricity failed. Food and water started running ...

The third instalment in the internationally bestselling Leo Junker series Charles Levin Leo Junkers mentor is dead, shot in the back of the head...

In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth afte...

Bea Britt lives alone in her grandmothers house in west Oslo. Early one morning, she wakes to find a police hunt outside her window and drama unfol...

Informed by traditional African storytelling, discover Ngugi wa Thiong'o's masterpiece. ...

The hair-raising mash-up of feminist X-Men, gothic fairy tale, family saga and biting social criticism that is taking Europe by storm.When Anita Na...

A young woman goes on a perilous journey in search of her absent father. What ensues is a Freudian adult fairytale in this exciting debut by young ...

The first Indian headmaster of an English-medium school in Surat, and later Diwan of Bhuj, Nandshankar Mehta (1835-1905) was a strong advocate ...

On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the ar...

1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjoerdur. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death i...

'Gazdanov is a modernist master' -- Irish Times 'The Gazdanov revival... is nothing short of a literary event' --TLS In a Paris underpass, dirty...

A puzzling phone call shatters a writers routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the legendary contempo...

Corrado Alvaro's Fear in the World was published a decade before Orwell's 1984, but is not well known outside Italy, perhaps because of the timing ...

Goodfellas meets White Fang. By the BAFTA-winning screenwriter of Amores Perros. An epic tale Sunday Times Crime Club A fast-moving, intriguing an...

A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho - a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our exi...

The bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria ...

Paulo''s writing is a visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism and folklore. His stories are simple and direct, yet they have the power to ...

From the award-winning Serbian author David Albahari comes a devastating, darkly funny Kafkaesque war fable about an army unit sent to a military c...

In the tradition of Conrads Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Green...

When a flock of crows invades their shared apartment block, farmer-turned-debt collector Ludovic and fashion designer Aurore speak for the first ti...

Riotously funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori's I am God is the diary of the Almighty's existential crisis that ...

Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a repres...

Driven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his...

1989. Salvadorian society is immersed in the horror of civil war. On a fateful November dawn, a group of armed men entered the Universidad Católica...

''Absorbing and moving'' The Tablet1989. Salvadorian society is immersed in the horror of civil war. On a fateful November dawn, a group of armed m...

The second of the Black Forest Investigations - Its plot bristles with invention Guardian It has been a long dry summer in the Black Forest idy...

One of the most ambitious and wildly inventive novels to have come out of Russia in years, this short novel embraces the Brehznev years, the USSR''...

In 2002 a Jewish man recalls the dying days of the Nazi occupation of Hungary and how, as a fourteen-year-old, he and his family were to be sent to...

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of h...