Fiction in Translation

Malika Moustadraf is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her uncompromising depiction of life on the margins. ...

A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have. Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things arent made for her, she isnt destined t...

A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness's masterpieceLate one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village,...

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

Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year David Mills, The Sunday TimesA really excellent suspense nove...

A mother and son inhabit an isolated and increasingly dangerous private world.The third and final installment of Ariana Harwicz's Involuntary Trilo...

'[I was] completely transported . . . so sparely and yet vividly told. I admired it immensely' Clare Chambers'Aroa Moreno Durán writes with a rare ...

'Minor's acute, elliptical observations and silky prose are a delight to read, as the misunderstandings, machinations and mysteries of past and pre...

'Jakuta Alikavazovic writes with lyric precision while making the limits of language felt. We need all of her books in English.' Ben Lerner**Longli...

'Nervous System is fast, uncompromising and shimmering with intelligence' Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater'Meruane is one of the one or two greats...

*Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022* A gem of a book, easily the best I've read this year. A contemporary police procedural with a literary ...

From the mind of a psychologist comes a chilling domestic thriller that gets under your skin.**One of Cosmopolitan's 25 of the best books to read t...

Nothing is as fragile as the memory of a child...Malone, a child barely four years old, starts to claim that his mother isn't his real mum. It seem...

When a police investigator is killed execution-style and Blixs own daughter is targeted by the killer, he makes a dangerous decision, which could c...

Legend has it that the ocean can lure children and make them fall into the depths to never return . . .Martin, who has always been drawn to the oce...

When Michelangelo, a young autistic child, goes missing, Commissario Sergio Striggio is put in charge of the investigation. Searches turn up nothin...

'[A] page-turner of a novel . . . I couldn't put the book down' - New York Times'A multi-viewpoint panorama of thwarted aspirations, spiced with br...

This is a beautiful book, a masterpiece of brevity and depth New EuropeanThis tense novella builds to a final reckoning The TimesIn October 1944, a...

In 1790, while serving in the Piedmontese army, the French aristocrat Xavier de Maistre (17631852) was punished for dueling and placed under house ...

Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read, yet incomplete novel The Good Soldier Schweik, a series of absurd...

By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding ...

Catherine the Great's life seems to have been made for the cinema. Countless love affairs and wild sexual escapades, betrayal, revenge, murder - th...

In a Kabul ravaged by violence and corruption, Murder Squad boss Osama Kandar still believes in integrity, a code of honour, and loyalty to old fri...

''What a great novel, its language and storytelling so light but also raw and lyrical. A tremendous writer. Read this book'' ADRIAAN VAN DIS. Alan ...

Named after one of Iceland's most magnificent volcanoes, Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household pr...

The narrator of this novel is Ballerina, a fifteen-year-old with the cognitive faculties of a child, and each of its fifteen chapters begins with h...

A forlorn traveler is taken in by three suffering orphans, who, in the midst of their pain, give him food and shelter. The first, orphaned by histo...

An international sensation, Small Country is a beautiful but harrowing tale of coming-of-age in the face of civil war.'A luminous debut novelFaye d...

'This is a brilliant, shocking book ... also witty, painfully self-critical and humane ... it is a work of great literature' Tim Whitmarsh, Guardi...

'The most addictive of writers' Observer 'High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables wher...

A gripping international thriller, perfect for fans of Homeland. Trust. Betrayal. Conspiracy. Jacob Seger is a trainee diplomat who dreams of chang...

In 1506, Michelangelo  a young but already renowned sculptor  is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. T...

Set in post-war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell'. ...

From the legendary director of The Holy Mountain, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic, and author of Where the Bird Sings Best Alejandro Jodorowsky c...

Biology graduate Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the origin of birds when her supervisor Lars Helland is found d...

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018 **The first in a gripping new crime series set in Germany - the Black Forest Investigations Lo...

The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified a...

'Serial killers turn up all the time in crime fiction, but few are as patient or as devious as the murderer in Zhou Haohui's Death Notice. This ext...

INSPECTOR BARLACH HAS A YEAR TO LIVE, BUT HE'S NOT GOING QUIETLY When Inspector Barlach notices that a successful Swiss surgeon bears a striking re...

In the beginning the page was blank and without form, and the scribe sat in front of it, a world forming inside his head. The world grew large, spi...

The novel, a depiction of social and political events in the capital during the run up to a national election, contains a grim cast of characters: ...

After several years abroad, a young man returns to his hometown to seek the man he calls master. This master, a brilliant philosopher, had made the...

A middle-aged judge driven by curiosity and the intellectual challenge of his work, a nervous and neurotic young historian willing to run all manne...