Fiction: Special Features

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret...

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 ...

Chandrasekhar Kambar is one of the most accomplished Indian writers working today. In each of Kambar's novels, the archetypical Mother, Karimayi, i...

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...