Fiction In Translation

'My name is Oscar and I'm ten years old . . . They call me Egghead and I look about seven. I live in hospital because of my cancer and...

Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us into a war between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed Dante scholar, is trying to change the world and write a novel....

With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of an Argentinean...

From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in...

Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume. The novella tells the story...

'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists' HARLAN COBENEmma's the one that got away.The only survivor of a killer known in the tabloids as 'the hairdresser' - because of...

'A superb literary thriller' The Times, Book of the Week 'A thriller dipped in poison ... Lebedev shares some of le Carre's fascination with secret worlds and the nature of...

Rembrandt Bugatti was the brother of the famous builder of luxury sports cars, Ettore. He made stunningly beautiful bronzes of wild animals that he spent days and weeks observing in...

Rembrandt Bugatti was the brother of the famous builder of luxury sports cars, Ettore. He made stunningly beautiful bronzes of wild animals that he spent days and weeks observing in...

Doppler has a nice house, a nice wife and a nice job. But Doppler isn't happy. 'Wonderfuly subversive, funny and original' Observer. 'A darkly comic fable' Independent. When his father...

Translated by George SzirtesFrom the winner of the Man Booker International PrizeIn the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual...

The Institut Benjamenta: a school of humility for the unambitious. The young Jakob von Gunten arrives at this most curious of educational establishments with the goal of becoming 'something very...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhen Gilbert wakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees - immediately and inexplicably...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhen Gilbert wakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees - immediately and inexplicably...

Sharp and tender at once, a humourous take on family dysfunction and human weakness seen through a young boy's eyes.Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees...

"AN INCENDIARY PORTRAIT OF THE VOLCANIC CURRENTS OF SEX AND BETRAYAL."-Mail on SundayTHE INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF MY BRILLIANT FRIENDA BBC2 Between The Covers Book Club...

"Stunning... the raging, torrential voice of the author is something rare." - The New York TimesTHE BREAK-OUT NOVEL BY THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF MY BRILLIANT FRIENDRarely have the foundations...

'The new Stephen King. Don't miss it' The TimesIn September 1985, nineteen-year-old John Lindqvist moves into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician....

The cult novel of fin de siecle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde'It will be biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't give a damn! It will be something...

'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last'A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to...

A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The eight masterly stories in this...

c.1000 AD: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland1492: Christopher Columbus does not discover America1531: the Incas invade EuropeCivilisations is the world as we don't know it: set at...

She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE** 'A masterpiece' GuardianDiscover a timely mystery about the loss of every day existence by one of Japan's greatest writers that featured in the...

The radical and urgent new novel from the author of The End of EddyI met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012. I was going home after a meal with friends, at...

Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life...

A sensitive innocent, Hendrickje Stoffels escapes the harsh realities of her garrison home-town to take up a servant's role in Rembrandt's household. She soon becomes his lover and closest confidante,...

Ordesa - a small Spanish town in the Pyrenees - is where our narrator was born, a place his father loved dearly, a place suffused with memories. Now, forty-six years...

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to...

In 1861 French silkworm merchant Herve Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine - but they cannot...

Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is...

Introduced by David MitchellIn a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. With his father gone, Isaku is...

'One of the greatest novels of the Second World War' The Times. 'A remarkable find' Antony Beevor. 'A masterpiece' Mail on Sunday. Stalingrad, November 1942. Lieutenant Breuer dreams of returning...

Hailed as a Southeast Asian Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the exuberant beauty of his prose and the darkly comic surrealism of his stories, Eka Kurniawan is the first Indonesian writer...

Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home...

A blowfly. Unusually large, loud, and eager to lay its eggs. It was lying in wait to get into the kitchen, rubbing its wings and feet against the curtain as...

WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD AND THE BEST PROSE WORK OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 READ RUSSIA PRIZERUNNER-UP FOR THE EBRD...

WINNER OF THE 2016 EU PRIZE FOR LITERATUREOne quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction...A young girl loses her mother when a block of ice...

A poignant story of three young adults trying to make a future for themselves in war-torn DamascusSyria - a country at war. Amal, Hammoudi and Youssef are young and ambitious,...

From the bestselling Italian author comes a novel based on the true story of a priest who refused to surrender...The school year is finished, exams are over and summer stretches...

Shortlisted for the Premio Valle Inclan, 2020Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, 2019 A SPELLBINDING COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL LITERARY STARThe crunch of a bird's wing.A cloud...

A groundbreaking and gripping literary detective novel set in Soviet-era Russia, from the award-winning author of Laurus and The AviatorCan we ever really understand the present without first understanding the...

'An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime.' Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'The sprightly narrative and vivid evocation of turn-of-the-century Poland make for an enjoyable tale.'...

WINNER OF THE 2016 EU PRIZE FOR LITERATUREOne quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction...A young girl loses her mother when a block of ice...

'This book is stunning, phenomenal, wow.' Cecelia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love YouWINNER OF THE FINLANDIA PRIZESeven women meet in a white, undefined space seconds after their deathsTime, as...

A lyrical and moving Polish family saga set against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century EuropeLala has lived a dazzling life. Born in Poland just after the First World War and...

An uncompromisingly honest collection of short stories, examining with unique perspicacity the missteps, mistakes and misunderstandings that define our lives.Pride and disgrace.Nostalgia and revenge.Tenderness and seduction.From the dusty backstreets of...

MY HEAD SPINS. I'M LYING IN A BED. WHERE AM I? WHO AM I?A man wakes up in hospital. He has no idea who he is or how he came...