Fiction in Translation

Cristiano is thirteen. Home life is far from perfect. When his father and two friends come up with a plan to rob a bank, Cristiano sees the chance ...

EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY, SOMETIMES . . .Lorenzo Cuni is a fourteen-year-old loner. His wealthy parents think he is away on a school skiing trip, b...

INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBØAFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTERNineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the ...

A suspicious device is found inside a suitcase near a nursery in Holon, Tel Aviv. The children are taken to safety; a man is caught fleeing the sce...

An unnamed narrator visits her friend, the girl who is getting married, in her apartment on the fifth floor of an anonymous building. With each fli...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep?...

Subtitled An Exploration of the Musico-Erotic, this novel is an experiment in blurring the boundaries between the syntax of music and that of poetr...

A tale of violence, lofty ideals, and moral ambiguity, Fontaine''s best-selling novel is now available in a superb English translation Set in the d...

Acclaimed poet and translator Sarah Ruden brilliantly brings Apuleius's comic tale to life  A rollicking ride well worth the fare, . . . marvelousl...

Endorsed by Amnesty International. Imagine if war broke out not in Iraq or Afghanistan, somewhere far far away, but here, in our country. In War, ...

This new English translation of the Faroe-Islander Saga (Faereyinga saga)--a great medieval Icelandic saga--tells the story of the first settler...

The Village, Ivan Bunin's first full-length novel, is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of t...

The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo and signs of affection ...

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 Rothm...

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE Do you ever feel like youre not speaking the same language? Swedish immigrant Kristin wont talk about her ...

Once upon a time there was a boy whose mother called him Wolf She thought this name would bring him strength, luck, natural authority, but how cou...

Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvi...

A darkly comic novel about the bizarre realities of life in Israel today. Why is everyone so paranoid in this country? Can't dark guys ge...

When the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo is found in a dusty field, Detective Edgar Lefty Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the cul...

Håkan Nesser, 'the Godfather of Swedish Crime' (Metro), is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series, The Root of Evil.*S...

A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem. In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwa...

Girl at Midnight has sold over a million copies in Poland and Katarzyna Bonda has become her country's undisputed Queen of Crime.For seven years, ...

'Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money' Sunday Express'Intelligent and gripping' The Times___Mindless killer? Or do they know exactly what they're doi...

WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize'An extraordinary and original writer' A.S. Byatt on Sjón Re...

With high hopes, Captain Riber embarks with his young bride Aurora on a voyage to exotic destinations. But they are an ill-matched pair; her naive ...

The Past Ahead is the story of the destinies of two people after their experiences of the genocide in Rwanda. Isaro is orphaned, exiled, and now re...

In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point. Park Minwoo is, by every measure, a success story. B...

Tofu peddler Yang Baishun is a man of few words and few friends. Unable to find meaningful companionship, he settles for a marriage of convenience....

For readers of The Lives of Others and The Reader, and based on a true story, No Live Files Remain is a beautiful and moving novel of family, lies,...

A tale of violence, lofty ideals, and moral ambiguity, Fontaines best-selling novel is now available in a superb English translation  [La Vida Dobl...

First published in 1923, just before César Vallejo left Peru for France, Scales combines prose poems with short stories in a collection that exhibi...

'Read him at your peril, avoid him at your loss' Sunday TimesCaptain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of h...

'LE PETIT PRINCE' by Antoine de Saint-Exupery translated into SCOTS by Derrick McClure. VISITE: Grace Note Publications website for more informatio...

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European master...

An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire.From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian pre...

A widely celebrated translators vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpieceBeowulf tells the story of a Sc...