Fiction In Translation

The publication of Clarice Lispector's Collected Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a...

'A panoramic, ambitious tale.' The Times'Exceptional.' Salman Rushdie'Powerful.' Christine Mangan'Captivating.' ElleFrom the internationally bestselling author of Lullaby, The Country of Others is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante, Tracy Chevalier,...

'Mieko Kawakami is a genius' - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting TimesFrom international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT, an extraordinary, deeply moving and insightful...

We all live our lives carrying secrets we cannot disclose. 'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details'...

'Surreal and unsettling' OBSERVER CULTURAL HIGHLIGHT'Wise, comical and exceptionally relatable' ZEBA TALKHANI 'Quietly hilarious and deeply attuned to the uncanny rhythms and deadpan absurdity of the daily grind' SHARLENE TEOA...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 Nobody can leave an island. An island is a cosmos in a nutshell, where the stars slumber in the grass beneath the...

If the dead could speak, what would they say to the living? From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadt's cemetery, the town's late inhabitants tell stories...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021A GUARDIAN and THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'This slight book is an extraordinarily powerful exploration of what happens to the souls of men...

It was a long journey-in more ways than mere geography-from a childhood in Northern Ireland to becoming the most influential foreigner in 19th-century China. This historical novel follows the life...

A NEW EDITION TO TIE IN WITH THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FILM DIRECTED BY MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL, STARRING OLIVIA COLMAN, DAKOTA JOHNSON AND PAUL MESCALFrom the international bestselling author of MY BRILLIANT...

Ten-year-old Mona and her beloved grandfather have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two works of art and commit to memory "all that is beautiful in the world" before Mona loses...

'A novelist at the height of his powers' La Croix'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century novels that Lemaitre will...

A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands...

The hero, the semi-autobiographical Ferdinand, moves through the nightmare of London's underworld during the years of World War I. In this distressing setting, he meets pimps and prostitutes, pawnbrokers and...

****NOW A RECORD-BREAKING FILM STARRING THE UNTAMED'S XIAO ZHAN****THE CHINESE LORD OF THE RINGS - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR...

LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019'If you haven't read Bernhard, you will not know of the most radical advance in fiction since...

LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL HOFMANN'If you haven't read Bernhard, you will not know of the...

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Russian.Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of...

'[A] French cult classic... Think: lesbian DJ love triangles, anticonformists, grainy MTV and designer drugs' Playboy'The literary queen of the Paris techno scene' GuardianParis, late 90s: at the centre of...

Jamilia's husband is off fighting at the front. She spends her days hauling sacks of grain from the threshing floor to the train station in their small village in the...

Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel - a Jewish man, writing in Russian, born in Odessa - uncover its tough underbelly. Gangsters, prostitutes, beggars,...

A grandfather who learns to let go.A grandson who learns to love.Eighty-five years old, a rebel, a retired boxer, Napoleon Sunshine is unlike other grandparents. His ten-year-old grandson, Leonard, is...

****NOW A RECORD-BREAKING FILM STARRING THE UNTAMED'S XIAO ZHAN****THE CHINESE LORD OF THE RINGS - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR...

****NOW A RECORD-BREAKING FILM STARRING THE UNTAMED'S XIAO ZHAN****THE CHINESE LORD OF THE RINGS - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR...

What if you could turn the pages of your own life, like the pages of your favourite book?Step into the magical and uplifting world of THE MOON GLOW BOOKSHOP -...

THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING HEALING SERIES FROM JAPANANOTHER TALE OF CATS, CAKES AND ASTROLOGY FOR READERS OF BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLDUnder the influence of Neptune, the doors to people's...

A startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, from the author of I Who Have Never Known MenIn the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest, forbidden...

Sometimes a fresh start begins with a familiar faceVolume two in the Marble Cafe series. By the multi-million-copy author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY for...

'A book that confronts the purity of fact, the tyranny of memory, and the totalitarianism of family like no other' Jhumpa Lahiri'Intense, sharply imagined and fascinating' Colm Toibin'On that day,...

THE INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLERDISCOVER YOUR NEXT FEELGOOD JAPANESE NOVEL, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLESOver 1.4 million copies sold in Japan'You will be wrapped in laughter and tears'...

'Life without her would be death'The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex published in English for the first time.The compulsive story of two friends growing up and...

Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferdinand Celine's earlier novel, Journey to the End of the Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these...

Paula's partner has died in a car accident - but no one knows her true grief. Only hours before his death, Mauro revealed that he was leaving her for another...

"Monumental" GuardianAn instant bestseller in ten languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man's life, interwoven with a narrative that stretches across centuries to create an addictive and unforgettable...

THE RADETSKY MARCH is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages...

'Inoue wrote compassionately, but without a hint of sentimentality' TLS'Inoue writes hand-in-hand with Death, with a finger on the Trigger' LireA lover, her daughter and an abandoned wife: three women...

From the devious mind of New York Times bestselling author Joel Dicker - master of the plot twist - comes this gripping domestic thriller that transforms into an ambitious heist...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTTHE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025THE NEW YORK TIMES "The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now"PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2025 BEST BOOKS OF THE...

'You can't love someone without knowing their whole story . . .'Fleeing a pitch-dark past, Emilia Innocenti arrives in a tiny village deep in the mountains of Piedmont, Northern Italy,...

With an undercurrent of sensual excitement, C?line paints an almost unbearably vivid picture of society and the human condition.