Fiction In Translation

"Normality is the creepiest madness there is..."From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version...

She's living a perfect life - so why does Laurence feel so torn?Weekends in the country, weekdays in Paris - Laurence's life features all the trappings of 1960s French bourgeoisie....

The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn s horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret...

The path to true love rarely runs smoothly...Teo, a medical student, meets Clarice at a party. Teo doesn't really like people, they're too messy, but he immediately realises that he...

A beautifully intimate novel from award-winning Danish novelist, Helle Helle This should be written in the present tense. But it isn't.Dorte should be at uni in Copenhagen. But she's not.She...

Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now he is a taxidermist. Wiola's mother tells her that...

Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But...

In the utterly original, genre-defying, English-language debut of Finnish author Juhani Karila, a young woman's annual pilgrimage to her home in Lapland to catch an elusive pike in three days...

This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan....

When Javier Marias wrote "All Souls", he was unprepared for the way in which reality would begin to invade his fiction. Real people mistook themselves for his fictional characters and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one...

In 1989, the memorable year when the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his early morning run finds a corpse lying on a park bench and alerts...

When a traveller from China crash-lands on Mars, he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. Befriended by a local cat-man, he becomes acquainted with all aspects...

There are novels, like journeys, which you never want to end: this is one of them. One seventh of July at six in the afternoon, a woman of 71 and...

By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams - a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and...

1829. Sainte-Suzanne, Bourbon Island. A Black orphan, a slave of only seven weeks, is placed - as if by fate - into the arms of Ferreol Beaumont, a botanist with...

'I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who has died and is now...

SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by...

In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and...

A captivating novella about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life, by the great Simone de Beauvoir.Nicole and Andre, a retired French couple, take a summer...

First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to...

Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his...

The Falcks are one of the most powerful families in Norway. And where there is power, there is envy and greed.December 2015. Six months after the revelations in a long-lost...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale'In the heart of...

A shipping container is mysteriously dumped in the Swedish port town of Norrtalje. Due to their ignorance of its ownership it isn't until a week has passed that the authorities...

Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Set in the early twentieth century, when the...

Fully illustrated and beautifully designed, this is a unique and wonderfully creepy tale that is sure to delight Murakami fans. 'All I did was go to the library to borrow...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' - Colm ToibinA housewife's life is shattered by a sudden epiphany. A simple...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRazor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo's essays established him as one of China's most popular - and subversive - writers. From...

It's early 2020, and with the world in chaos as coronavirus spreads, two lonely people, both seeking to break with their pasts, meet and start sharing a home. One is...

WINNER of the Oslo City Artist Prize and the Norwegian Booksellers PrizeSHORTLISTED for the Brage Award and the Tarjei Vesaas Debut Prize Taut, lyrical and utterly gripping - a headrush...

Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see.In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Laboure was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister...

It's time to crack the impossibly brilliant murder mystery from Alex Ahndoril, the new pseudonym for the No.1 international bestselling author, Lars Kepler.________________________A man walks into a private investigator's office,...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'But how sweet a fruit the 'suppose' must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like a...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksSaadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition...

** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW **'Fantastic.' Karl Ove Knausgard 'Miraculous.' The Cut 'Unforgettable.' Hernan Diaz 'Wonderful.' K Patrick'A total explosion: a new dimension.' Nicole Krauss The second volume of the...

'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgard'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss'Unforgettable.' Hernan Diaz'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo'Brilliant.' Jon McGregor'Absolutely marvellous.' Lauren Groff** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW **** A NEW YORKER AND PARIS REVIEW...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico.Life's a bitch. That's why you gotta rattle her cage, even...

With a new introduction by Colm Toibin"Absolutely captivating" ANDREA CAMILLERI"Monumental" GuardianDrawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind and The Name of the Rose, and an instant bestseller in many languages,...