Fiction in Translation

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...

On the face of it, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin two icons of the twentieth century couldn t be more different. One is the grand statesman ...

Summoned from Vienna to Frankfurt to testify at the Auschwitz trials, Heiner meets Lena, who is working at the court as a translator. As the trial ...

Though several decades have passed since the savage climax of Algeria's long and bloody war of independence, it still casts a long and haunting sha...

The stories collected here illuminate two recent phenomena in China. The first migrationthe up to the mountains, down to the villages movement of t...

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed...

The Tables of the Law recounts the early life of Moses, his preparations for leading his people out of Egypt, the exodus itself and the incidents ...

The first novel which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Not that he looked like a ...

In Young Light, novelist Ralf Rothmann paints a delicate portrait of a twelve-year-old boy named Julian growing up in a mining community in 1960s G...

A radiant work of fiction that illuminates the life and art of Rimbaud in a way that no biography could  Rimbaud the Son, widely celebrated upon it...

Longlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize Since she's been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory. Lalla Fatma thi...

The Sevilla Mendoza family, long-time residents of the Sardinian coast, are not quite what you'd call 'conventional'. At the heart of the family is...

Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russias serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy g...

The follow-up collection to the international vampire bestseller Let the Right One In**Includes the short story Border, now a major film**Whatever ...

Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a ...

A brilliant, semiautobiographical satirical novel from one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, now in a new English tra...

Barbara, originally written in Danish, was the only novel by the Faroese author Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen (19001938), and yet it quickly achieved inte...

Summer of Caprice, a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly ...

This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes we neithe...

Every morning Håkan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come home.Detective Kurt Walland...

A powerful and beautiful Syrian novel set in Aleppo during the early days of the civil war that followed the Arab Spring. 'Beautiful... brings to ...

A beguiling read . . . A cold-case whodunnit [and] a Shadow of the Wind-style quest - John Dugdale, Sunday TimesBestselling writer Luca D'Andrea ha...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE'S TALONS, THE NEW GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO THRILLER FEATURING LISBETH SALANDERSTEEPED IN DARKNESS, COMP...

Fresh from rehab, Norwegian PI Varg Veum faces his most complex investigation yet, when a man is found drowned, a young woman disappears, and the c...

#1 bestseller in Sweden with over 1.5 million copies sold'Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startl...

'Extraordinary The beating heart of this novel is the exquisite empathy it demonstrates There is a gentle magnificence at work in its pages' Iris...

An Amazon.com Editors' Picks: Best Mystery, Thriller & SuspenseKusanagi pointed at Yukawa with his fork. When it comes to unraveling impossibl...

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly fun...

This celebration of Chinese Science Fiction thirteen stories, all translated for the first time into English represents a unique exploration of t...

THE TIMES SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH ''Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinemati...