Secondhand Fiction In Translation Books

Forty-year-old Norah leaves Paris, her family and her career as a lawyer to visit her father in Dakar. It is an uncomfortable reunion - she is asked to use her...

Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary fiction from the world's most spoken language. These eight short stories, with parallel translations, offer students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy...

For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day of his release.Then he...

A luscious summer novel about friends, lovers, and friends' lovers'Five friends, one cabin in the forest and a whole load of tension' Vogue'Sun-soaked...playful and sensual' DazedFive friends from university; seven...

Beauty Maria Zavala resents her name, along with the 40 extra pounds she cannot get rid of and simply goes by "B". B hates her size and worse, hates that...

From the devious mind of New York Times bestselling author Joel Dicker - master of the plot twist - comes this gripping domestic thriller that transforms into an ambitious heist...

'Inoue wrote compassionately, but without a hint of sentimentality' TLS'Inoue writes hand-in-hand with Death, with a finger on the Trigger' LireA lover, her daughter and an abandoned wife: three women...

THE RADETSKY MARCH is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages...

"Monumental" GuardianAn instant bestseller in ten languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man's life, interwoven with a narrative that stretches across centuries to create an addictive and unforgettable...

Paula's partner has died in a car accident - but no one knows her true grief. Only hours before his death, Mauro revealed that he was leaving her for another...

Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferdinand Celine's earlier novel, Journey to the End of the Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these...

'Life without her would be death'The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex published in English for the first time.The compulsive story of two friends growing up and...

A grandfather who learns to let go.A grandson who learns to love.Eighty-five years old, a rebel, a retired boxer, Napoleon Sunshine is unlike other grandparents. His ten-year-old grandson, Leonard, is...

Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel - a Jewish man, writing in Russian, born in Odessa - uncover its tough underbelly. Gangsters, prostitutes, beggars,...

Jamilia's husband is off fighting at the front. She spends her days hauling sacks of grain from the threshing floor to the train station in their small village in the...

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Russian.Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of...

The hero, the semi-autobiographical Ferdinand, moves through the nightmare of London's underworld during the years of World War I. In this distressing setting, he meets pimps and prostitutes, pawnbrokers and...