Fiction in translation books

A seamless blend of fable and philosophy, the Bhagavata Purana is perhaps the most revered text in the Vaishnava...  Read More >>

This definitive and comprehensive anthology of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, nonfiction and poetry...  Read More >>

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The three novellas of Farewell, Aylis explore a society in transition: a traveler is suspected of defecting to America,...  Read More >>

Two immigrants, Salimah and Sayuri, navigate isolation, a new language, and loss on their way to a lifelong friendship....  Read More >>

First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre's...  Read More >>

Written in 1949 but only published in 1979, Robbe-Grillet's first novel is a disquieting and satirical avant-garde...  Read More >>

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First published in 1850, `The Diary of a Superfluous Man’ was initially censored by the authorities, as some of...  Read More >>

In this tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, Italo Svevo – who himself was an undiscovered writer until...  Read More >>

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A bohemian novel set in 1970s Yugoslavia which follows the loves and losses of a disfunctional family in Belgrade....  Read More >>

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The eternal conflict in the age-old 'man-woman' relationship, which typically arises when any one of the two partners...  Read More >>

The second installment in Hakan Nesser's Inspector Barbarotti quintet: a series of letters detailing future murders...  Read More >>

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The sequel to The Mystery of the Yellow Room.  Read More >>

One of the most accomplished authors in history, Tolstoy has inspired and influenced generations of readers. While...  Read More >>

Someone is watching. At each abandoned crime scene there's a hidden clue: a tiny metal cog, almost invisible to...  Read More >>

A spellbinding novel based on the visit to Paris by C.P. Cavafy, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets,...  Read More >>

The second installment in Hakan Nesser's Inspector Barbarotti quintet: a series of letters detailing future murders...  Read More >>

In its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a Frenchman's erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer...  Read More >>

At first glance, the Li family looks quite ordinary- one tyrannical grandfather, two overworked parents, four siblings,...  Read More >>