Fiction in Translation

Zanna Sloniowska writes beautifully; with empathy, sensitivity, and with real political impact . . . an important new voice in Polish literature OL...

Set on the island of Anjouan, Comoros, Deranged As I Am follows the story of a humble docker. With his ramshackle cart and patched-up clothes, he s...

A fifteen-year-old girl and her father, Johannes, take a cruise to Greece on the SS Proleterka. Jaeggy recounts the girl's youth in her distinctive...

** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and...

Set in the 1960s, Nakedness is the tale of a young man who has just completed his military service and gone straight to Randava to surprise Marika,...

The new novel from the internationally bestselling, prizewinning, queen of Icelandic crime. The police find out about the crime the way everyone do...

When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp - ...

'The king of all crime writers' Sunday ExpressThere's a new killer on the streetsA woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left o...

Book of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker, TIME magazine, Kirkus A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from th...

Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo.__________ Along with fellow members of the Old-But-...

For a writer so reserved in what hesaw into print, Juan Rulfo has had adisproportional influence on writers ofliterature in Spanish, and beyond, on...

Composed in the 1630s, Giambattista Basiles The Tale of Tales, later known as the Pentameron, is a sophisticated, affectionate, often wicked parody...

'Of all my memories, of all my life's innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed.' A man comes acro...

Now an Amazon Prime Original series, Red Queen is the first in Juan Gómez-Jurado's internationally bestselling thriller series, translated by Nick ...

Populated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans as well as some very factual politicians, priests, and general...

A woman arrives alone in Kolkata, taking refuge in a deserted apartment while she waits to undergo an unspecified surgery. In this disorienting cit...

CBC BOOKS - CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023Peter Greenaway meets Angela Carter: a Gothic tale of secrets and revenge When the c...

Set to be one of the best books of 2023 GQ Magazine Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic MUSA OKWONGAA time-travelling wonder of a read PATERSON JO...

When the Basque dragoon Don José meets a Gypsy woman at the factory he is guarding, he is immediately ensnared by her wiles. After she is arrested ...

Biagio Mazzeo is the Chief Inspector of the Narcotics Division in a wealthy Northern Italian city known to cops and criminals alike as The Jungle, ...