Fiction In Translation

The new novel from prizewinning author, Paolo Cognetti - a love story set in a tiny village high in the Italian Alps.The new novel from prizewinning author, Paolo Cognetti is...

'Interplanetary, quite extraordinary... awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty' The Financial Times'One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century' - New YorkerBeautiful Star is...

'One of Japan's most venerated writers' David MitchellIn this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker, only to...

*From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo*A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.Welcome to the...

Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author's experiences in Fascist Italy, and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for scientific knowledge...

Henrique has had HIV for three years.Ian has just tested positive.Victor got with Henrique last night and thinks he might have it.Ian, Victor and Henrique must navigate treatment, friendship and...

Federico and Lourenco are brothers. Their father is black, a famed forensic pathologist for the police; their mother is white. Federico - distant, angry, analytical - has light skin, which...

While her mother is in the hospital with a grave but unnamed illness, Marina spends the summer with her grandmother, waiting to hear whether she'll get to go home or...

Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up. Claudia's mother says she met her husband when she stopped him from jumping off...

A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have.Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things aren't made for her, she isn't destined to have them, the only things...

In the northern Slovenian city of Murska Sobota stands the renowned Hotel Dobray, once the gathering place of townspeople of all nationalities and social strata who lived in this typical...

Yun Yun lives in a small West China town with her widowed father and an uncle, aunt and older cousin who live nearby. One day, her once-secure world begins to...

On Mount Gurugu, overlooking the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the North African coast, desperate migrants gather before attempting to scale the city's walls and gain asylum on European soil....

Quiet Flows the Una is the story a man trying to overcome the personal trauma caused by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The book covers...

'Farewell, Cowboy' is a tough yet poetic novel by one of Croatia's best known writers. The story is rich in local colour and sentiment, following the main character, Dada, who...

"Trieste is a monumental feat of the imagination. Impassioned and lucid, it is impossible to read it and not come away with a new understanding of the world. Dasa Drndic...

The Prize-Winning International Bestseller'I can't help but be moved by a story about women meeting, fighting, helping each other, looking after one another, and raising their voices against the prejudice...

You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell...

A wonderful story for children and an allegory for adults about the absurdity of war, presented here with an introduction and guide to the text by Lemony Snicket.Starving after a...

Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2017A finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeMy sister Silencia was the most recent victim of the lions, which have been tormenting...

Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. A fighter who has experienced loss and grief early on in life, she lives in a state of self-imposed...

One of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system by one of Russia's finest young writers. A young man travels to...

September 1905. At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother. At the very same moment, an Indian spy...

'A thriller dipped in poison... Lebedev shares some of le Carre's fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil' New York TimesAn extraordinary and angry Russian novel about poisons...

The Gospel according to AmelieJesus is perhaps the most universally known figure in the Western world, yet he remains one of the most obscure. In her reinterpretation of the story...

THEIR MISSION IS MURDER. HIS IS REVENGE.Suzuki is just an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. When he discovers the criminal gang responsible he leaves behind his life as...

'Sharp, savage and tense' Sunday Times Crime ClubSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGERLuis Machi has had enemies for a long time: after all, he's built his success...

The third instalment in a prize-winning series charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the Renaissance.Fontainebleau, 1536Francis II, dauphin of...

Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer.'Knausgaard...

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger.'Moving... A circadian novel, set over one day... Entirely ingenious'...

From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directly to Knausgaard's unborn daughterIn Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove...

** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and powerful story of violence.I...

'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - ObserverRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February...

Dima fled war and torture in Syria.Semhar is running from conscription in Eritrea.Shoshana was driven from Nigeria by climate change and hunger.Now the three women wait on the Libyan shore...

The light greenery of the early summer is trembling around Erik and Julia as they shove their children into the car and start the drive towards the house by the...

*WINNER OF THE BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD USA**SHORTLISTED FOR THE EBRD PRIZE**SHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD PRIZE*"A writer and thinker of ever greater relevance, a voice whoSe wide-ranging screeds we ignore...

"Highly recommended" Sunday Times"Utterly captivating" Woman and Home"Sympathetic and clear-eyed" Financial Times Summer Reads of 2021"Unfailingly impressive" Irish Times"Sparse and precise" Telegraph"A beautiful novel of what it is to be...

By the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK, a radical and bold satire in inequitable times."Whizz-bang energy and gleeful imaginative savagery" Sam Leith, Guardian"More than mere satire, it's a book that...

'As cryptic and compelling as a fever dream... Bae Suah is one of the most unique and adroit literary voices working today' Sharlene TeoFinishing her last shift at Seoul's only...

'Companionable, exotic, witty and glamorously suggestive' ObserverOne more journey to the literary universe of Roberto Bolano, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literatureRoberto Bolano's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible...

Look out for ANXIOUS PEOPLE, the new novel by Fredrik Backman, the 13 million copy bestselling author of A Man Called Ove. The captivating and moving follow-up to the international...

Winner of the Munhakdongne Novel Award, South Korea's most prestigious literary prizeCabinet 13 looks exactly like any normal filing cabinet. Except this cabinet is filled with files on the 'symptomers',...

1871. Pete Ferguson is a wanted man. An army deserter, hunted for murder in Oregon, not to mention theft and arson in Nebraska.Taking the name of Billy Webb, he is...

"Belladonna is brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable . . . One of the truly outstanding novels of recent years" EILEEN BATTERSBY, Los Angeles Review of Books** Winner of the Warwick Prize...

On a train from Paris to Rome on his way to surprise his lover, the businessman Leon Delmont begins to mull over his past and question the decisions he has...

A mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko's novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the...