Fiction in translation books

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017: the larger-than-life, laugh-out-loud story of an African...  Read More >>

Few books have been as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. A...  Read More >>

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A slow-burning domestic nightmare, tinged with the traumas of war  Read More >>

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Three stories translated from the original Latvian.  Read More >>

The first complete English translation of a Latin American avant-garde masterpiece  Read More >>

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Eerie depiction of a young boy's fascination with the mysterious room each house must keep prepared for the president....  Read More >>

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A manic, bruising stream of conscious portrayal of a mother and wife struggling to maintain both a normal life and...  Read More >>

The Redbreast"" is the winner of the Glass Key prize for the best Nordic crimenovel, and has been voted Norways...  Read More >>

A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe's most significant contemporary...  Read More >>

With its montage strategies reminiscent of early avant-garde cinema, I Burn Paris ruthlessly dissects various utopian...  Read More >>

Hiding out in the wild Cantabrian Mountains four fugitivesevade capture by Franco's Guardia Civil after the Republicandefeat...  Read More >>

A beautiful and imaginative novel about an unusual and moving friendship, from the author of The Peculiar Life of...  Read More >>

Two stories-one a grandiose adventure-mystery, the other a tale of erotic exploits-humorously intertwine in a French...  Read More >>

Classic Garnier; the absurdity of life, deeply flawed but strangely likeable characters. Death with a Gallic shrug....  Read More >>

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Writing in the first three decades of the 20th century, Franz Kafka explored the themes of alienation, anxiety and...  Read More >>

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Showcases discoveries and inventions such as: An African mud-sculpture representing a naked child; a road-mender's...  Read More >>

The most powerful autobiographical novel written about the Balkan war.  Read More >>

'Beautifully written and gripping'. Sunday Mirror When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Told in...  Read More >>

Kim Tong-in (1900-1951) is one of Korea's earliest and most respected modern writers whose naturalist fiction brilliantly...  Read More >>