Fiction in Translation

A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia, filled with vivid sex and violence, from the Man Booker International Prize longlisted author'A literary c...

The expression 'Sicilian uncle' has the same sense in Italian as 'Dutch uncle' does in English, but with sinister overtones of betrayal and inconst...

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behi...

The city of Simenon's youth comes to life in this new translation of this disturbing novel set in Liège, book ten in the new Penguin Maigret series...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face was complete...

From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer traces the early years of his life in this a...

He had never married and had never been with one woman for long; he had always remained a collector of first times. Edward Landauer, a brilliant m...

Okada is on a business trip to Budapest when he meets enigmatic Misa and her Italian girlfriend, Federica. Inexplicably drawn to Misa, he agrees to...

A schoolboy is in his senior year when he attends Comiket, a comic market in Tokyo. There, he meets a married woman ten years his senior, a cosplay...

The Untouchable ApartmentKandagawa's relationship with Mano ended over four years ago, which is why she's surprised when he calls her, drunk, to te...

When his wife returns to her parents house to have their second child, an unnamed narrator and his son are left to manage by themselves. Instead of...

Commissario Soneri returns home for a hard-earned autumn holiday, hoping to spend a few days mushroom picking on the slopes of Montelupo. This isol...

Diao Dous short stories perform a kind of high-wire literary acrobatics; each one executes an immaculate mid-air transition, from closely observed ...

Set in contemporary Tangier, Morocco, Detective Laafrit investigates the case of four corpses washed up on the beach. The victims are presumed ille...

THE FINAL INSTALMENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIES OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE When a police officer is murdere...

A few years after the deadly 2011 terror attack in Norway's Utoya Island, Otto and Sofie are attempting to put the pieces of their life back togeth...

We'll lock you both up in the same jail cell... a tough one... the sort of place that gives kindly old ladies the shivers. At one of France's toug...

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but...

'I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as allthe books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought a copy...

Natalya Filippovna may be a middle-aged, single mother and member of the Russian minority in Estonia, but she is content with her simple life. She ...

'Only the earth is immortal...the earth we love enough to commit murder for her.' Zola's novel of peasant life, the fifteenth in the Rougon-Macqua...

Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In th...

The significance of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book to our musical canon is well known; the remarkable story of its copyist and compiler, Francis Tre...

An international bestseller, Marie Sabine-Roger's heartwarming novel is a touching and comic tale about the power of books. For fans of The Uncommo...

Richly engaging . . . Skilfully translated by David Homel - Michael Arditti, SpectatorA touching tale of a beleaguered dreamer . . . Lightness bal...

'One of the greatest novels ever written' Philippe Sands Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian em...

'One of the greatest European novelists of the century' Sunday Times Andreas is an alcoholic and a vagrant who lives under a bridge. Downtrodden, ...

''This book''s power lies in its depiction of civilians trying to lead ordinary lives during the horror of war . . . It is shattering stuff, but Ro...

An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina MoralesÁngela, Patricia, Marg...

Lars Mytting writes with an insight, empathy and integrity few others can match JO NESBOThe Reindeer Hunters is the second in a thrilling historica...

Maylis de Kerangal conjures the same painterly realism her characters hope to achieve in paint London MagazineEvocative and exhilerating BooklistMa...

We've all stood on a street corner and let the city's lights and sounds pass by. What do we hear when we listen to the sounds of the city? What tra...

If the dead could speak, what would they say to the living? From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadts cemetery, the towns late ...

Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award'Remarkable . . . a novel about people that never loses its sense of humanity' The Sunday Times'Z...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN: 'DEEPLY PLEASURABLE'A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE SPECTATOR: 'WHAT A JOY''Magnificent' Guardian'A towering achive...

Gonzalo is a frustrated would-be poet in a city full of poets; poets lurk in every bookshop, prop up every bar, ready to debate the merits of Teill...

Solà pushes past the limits of human experience to tell a story of instinct and earth-time that is irresistible in its jagged glory. - C Pam Zhang,...

A spellbinding story of love and betrayal for fans of Santa Montefiore, Fiona Valpy's The Beekeeper's Promise and Dinah Jefferies. Perfect for book...

'Iceland's outstanding crime novelist' Daily ExpressOn a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of e...

''The rock cast a sharp, dark shadow over a shape huddled on the ground. Please don''t let it be the boy, Colomba thought. Her silent prayer didn''...