Fiction In Translation

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...

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...

'Incredibly funny, incredibly insightful and incredibly moving' Fiona Mozley, author of Hot StewA darkly comic and explosive tale of a world at war and one island girl's struggle to surviveEighty-year...

An award-winning story of friendship and the power of imagination, from the celebrated author of The Peculiar Life of a Lonely PostmanThe loss of a parent brought them together. Two...

'This new generation of Latin American writers has exchanged history for memory, dictators for narcos and political engagement for gender and class consciousness.' El PaisTen years on from the first...

An unforgettable book from Portugal's bestselling author that promises to change how we read about loveThe restaurant is crowded and noisy. The man sits by the window, watching the grey...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX DRAMASHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017'The book I wish I had written' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women and AnimalA young woman...

'Incredibly funny, incredibly insightful and incredibly moving' Fiona Mozley, author of Hot StewA darkly comic and explosive tale of a world at war and one island girl's struggle to surviveEighty-year...

*Selected for Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 2 Book Club*'Quirky and charming' GuardianFor readers of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly and The Guest Cat comes this passionate, bittersweet love...

THE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR___________________'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York TimesDissatisfied and discontent,...

Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on she never imagines...

In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great...

'Could Cognetti be the new Elena Ferrante?' BooksellerThe international sensation that spent a year on the Italian bestseller list about two young boys who meet in the mountains every summer,...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees...

As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity....

A collection of inspirational thoughts and stories from bestselling author of The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho. A collection of insightful philosophical thoughts and stories, in which Paulo Coehlo offers inspiring answers...

'Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read. Like Bolano, she is interested in matters of life and death, and her fiction hits with the full force...

Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few skills that might help him...

'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout, from the...

With a new introduction by Polly Samson, Sunday Times bestselling author of A THEATRE FOR DREAMERS 'Gorgeous... the written equivalent of lying in the sun eating figs' India Knight, Sunday...

A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John BanvilleStefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the Alps, where...

'A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, international readership... very much a book for our times' Siri Hustvedt, from the introduction'A literary giant...

'The great French feminist writer we need to remember' Guardian 'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman...

'Boell's novel blows a stent in the human heart. . . It feels more necessary than ever.' Anna Funder, from the introduction'This is the best book I have read this...

When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into...

Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the...

'Perceptive and exquisitely observed' Observer'Provocative' Financial Times'Has the momentum of a psychological thriller' Daily MailNofar is just an average teenage girl - so average, she's almost invisible. Serving customers ice...

A MOVING AND COMPELLING EMOTIONAL MYSTERY, BY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW TALENTS IN NORWAY, PERFECT FOR FANS OF ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, RACHEL CUSK AND IAN...

'Only the villages are asleep, the eternal reservoir of all kinds of soldiery, the inexhaustible source of physical strength'At the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian...

It is 1941, and Antwerp is in the grip of Nazi occupation. Young policeman Wilfried Wils has no intention of being a hero - but war has a way of...

A genre-bending mystery recalling the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipating the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists.Inspector Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in...

A building full of secrets. A key that will unleash them all The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo conceals a sinister past behind each door; a woman who has...

'A strange, haunting, and utterly original exploration of displacement and desire and a world apart from anything you are likely to read this year' Tea Obreht, New York Times Book...