Fiction In Translation

Anna has returned from visiting her mother. Restless and unable to sleep, she wanders through her parents' house, revisiting the scenes of her childhood. In a cupboard drawer, folded and...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARYLittle Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination - the child of an overbearing father. So, two weeks away...

'Captivates you until the last page. Fast-paced, gripping, brilliant - a book with an accurate insight into this time filled with confusion' J. M. Lee, international bestselling author of The...

In an unnamed country on the first day of the new year, people stop dying. Amid the general public, there is great celebration: flags are hung out on balconies and...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, 'Soul Mountain' is an elegant, unforgettable novel that journeys deep into the heart of...

'A beguiling and human tale that sweeps us through the years' Daily Mail'Exquisite. . . Readers will be rapt' Publishers WeeklyHaru, a successful Japanese art dealer, appreciates beauty, harmony, balance...

'An absolute classic, and a whole new world to explore ... irresistible' Lee Child'Beautiful and melancholic, Inspector Imanishi Investigates is not just an ingenious and elegant mystery, but a fascinating...

An atmospheric love story with a twist by the author of The Rabbit Back Literature SocietyIn a small hillside town, Olli Suominen - publisher and discontented husband - is constantly...

'Like Olga Tokarczuk, Snajder has written a novel about a Europe that has lost its diversity and has beendestroyed by fascism, communism and, in recent times, nationalism ... a modern...

When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country....

A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness's masterpieceLate one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village, a penniless woman arrives by boat. She comes with her...

The thought-provoking new novel from the international bestselling author whose words change lives. Linda knows she's lucky. Yet every morning when she opens her eyes to a so-called new day,...

As a child Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in a volume of fiction edited by his Swiss grandparents. He initially reads only part of the tale,...

In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a...

This Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in The New York Times as a 'savage indictment of bourgeois society'. But, as the author...

A group of children use an abandoned shed in the fields near their apartment block as a summer hang-out. Three boys and two ten-year-old girls. Lazily, in the stifling heat,...

Praise for "The Red Notebook" "An endearing love story written in beautifully poetic prose. It is an enthralling mystery about chasing the unknown, the nostalgia for what could have been,...

Four friends. One night. Not everyone will come out alive . . . The gripping new stand-alone mystery from 'world-class crime writer' Ragnar Jonasson, soon to be a major motion...

A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well. 'Until that moment Diego had not...

A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the YearWinner of the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation PrizeTranslated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose...

A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, BernadetteHeartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, the new novel by the...

The new novel from the award-winning translator of Sweet Bean Paste Winner of the Naoki Prize Winner of the Society of Authors Sasakawa Foundation Prize Perfect for fans of The...

Winner of the EBRD Literature Prize awarded by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.A city ignited by hate. A man in thrall to power. The ferociously original award-winning bestseller...

The head used to belong to one Damasceno Monteiro before his murderers removed it with an electric saw. Monteiro had blundered onto a drug scam and needed to be silenced....

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil.In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with...

A compelling and chilling read about a young boy's ambition to become a model soldier in Nazi Germany.Baby Max is the perfect prototype of the Nazi eugenics programme; he is...