Fiction In Translation

Meet Sofie. The history of her sexuality begins when she loses her virginity to Walter the recruitment consultant. So, naturally, she thought that things could only improve from there. But...

'Stimulating, elegant, distinctive and thought-provoking' The Sunday TimesFrom the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. In these short stories Jhumpa...

In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point.Park Minwoo is, by every measure, a success story. Born into poverty...

In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvelously pitched violin meets a fellow musician who is instantly captivated by her instrument. When...

'A masterpiece' (Salman Rushdie) by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.'[It] calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political...

From the author of the bestselling Suite Francaise.Helene is a troubled young girl. Neglected by her self-absorbed mother and her adored but distant father, she longs for love and for...

A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once...

The war against the Shining Path is over. Yet when a charred and mutilated body is discovered during Carnival, the people of the small town of Ayacucho understand that death...

The scene opens in a smouldering orchard in Flanders, where the French soldier Ferdinand, shell-shocked, badly wounded and surrounded on all sides by mud, corpses and destruction, tries to find...

A tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance.'Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure, this compelling love story is expertly crafted against a backdrop of modern Japanese culture' StylistTsukiko is...

'A rich, surprising and devastating story of a female institution long-forgotten' Marj Charlier, author of The Rebel NunA heretical text, a vengeful husband, a forbidden love... It's 1310 and Paris...

What did the disintegration of the Soviet Union feel like for the people who lived through it? Award-winning writer Sasha Salzmann tells this story in a remarkable novel about two...

Lucinda has lived her whole life in the shadow of her glamorous and outgoing high-end model sister Viviana. But when Viviana suddenly disappears on a trip to Sao Paulo, Lucinda...

At the very centre of the life of one of the twentieth-century's greatest artists was the most unexpected of life-long influences. The aptly named Jessie Lightfoot shielded the young Francis...

Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety....

**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**'Engrossing.' Mail on Sunday'A powerful and compelling family saga.' CHRISTINE MANGAN'Beautifully atmospheric.' Financial TimesFROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LULLABYMorocco, 1968. The air is electric. Anything feels...

An exploration of myth, passion and loyalty from the Lebanon's troubled past, The Rock of Tanios is another superbly rich and rewarding novel from the author of Samarkand and Leo...

THE INTOXICATING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ABOUT LOVE, COOKING AND MAGIC. PERFECT FOR FANS OF JOANNE HARRIS AND ISABEL ALLENDE.'This magical, mythical, moving story of love, sacrifice and summering sensuality is something...

A snobbish Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small village in Iceland for inspiration, and then a body appears ......

'Already hailed as a Cold War classic.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year'Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe.' Anna...

'Remarkable . . . a novel about people that never loses its sense of humanity.' Sunday Times'A deeply human text about the ghosts of identity and decolonization.' Vanity FairNaima has...

From Monika Helfer's award-winning, internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on her own family. Translated into English for the first time.'We called him Vati, Dad. Not Father, not Papa. That's what...

This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolano's writing. Bolano's narrators are grappling with...

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of...

In 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 forced to grow...

When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she's going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Bru, he willingly goes along with her scheme. Little does he...

The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunter Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925...

Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The...

Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The...

What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating Spain and Portugal from the rest of Europe?In Saramago's fable, a new island is sent...

The thunder of the guns could be heard in Rome, 170 miles away ...Having survived the horrors of the Eastern Front, the 27th Penal Regiment are posted to Italy. Hitler...

A Chinese novel about life among wolves on the Mongolian plains.

Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues investigate the murders of men with a history of abuse towards women ... as a startling, horrifying series of revelations emerge. Germany's...

Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in more than 20 languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of...

A Times Book of the Year, 2019THE SECOND WORLD WAR IS OVER. BUT THE WORLD IS FAR FROM SAFE.As victorious Russian troops sweep across East Prussia, a group of desperate...