Fiction In Translation

Translated by Jeremy Tiang When the fervour of revolution is gone, what remains? Four leftist teenagers in 1950s Malaya dedicate themselves to over...

translated by Natascha Bruce Singapore, late 1980s. As women gain power and independence, what’s an insecure guy to do? Lonely Face is the story of...

translated by Jeremy Tiang In the 1910s, thirteen-year-old Leong Ping Hung comes to Singapore from China to seek his fortune. Decades later, he is ...

translated by William Johnston Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And I keep turning o...

translated by Sanford Goldstein In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love, set against t...

translated by Lucia Graves The Shadow of the Wind is a stunning literary thriller in which the discovery of a forgotten book leads to a hunt for an...

translated by Michael Hofmann A young couple fall in love, get married and start a family, like countless young couples before them. But Lämmchen a...

translated by John Lambert The sensational international bestseller from one of France's most fêted writers--an epic novel telling the story of Chr...

translated by Adriana Hunter In 1919, in a small town in the province of Berry, France, under the sweltering temperatures of summer heat wave, a wa...

translated by Frances W. Pritchett Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common p...

translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood All Vienna knows that the inhabitant of number 10 Seilerstatte is none other than Christopher Alt, piano m...

BALTASAR & BLIMUNDAby José Saramagopublished by Vintage * In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in...

translated by William Weaver "Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his exped...

translated by Mihoko Inoue and Eileen B. Hennessy Set in eighteenth-century Japan, The Flower Mat unravels the story of a young bride born into a t...

translated by Stephen Sartarelli From the author of the Inspector Montalbano series comes the remarkable account of an exceptional woman who rises ...

translated by Stephen Sartarelli Raffadali, province of Agrigento, 1920s. The Sacco brothers are free men with strong ideas about socialism and the...

translated by Steve Anderson An illuminating and heart-stirring historical novel set in post-WWII Palestine, where the boundaries of love and frie...

translated by Lucia Graves The stunning new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind. In an abandoned mansion at...

translated by Anthea Bell It is 1945 and in the devastating opening scene, a young mother named Helene stands with her seven-year-old son in a prov...

translated by Margaret Jull Costa This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not un...

Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably arist...

translated by Margaret Jull Costa For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift f...

translated by Katherine Gregor In a medieval Venice undone by devastating famine and excessive, orgiastic Carnival festivities of all kinds, the pr...

translated by Brendan Freely and Yelda Türedi Altan’s “Ottoman Quartet” spans the fifty years between the final decades of the 19th century and the...

translated by Alison Anderson Coeur was the King of France’s visionary First Banker who, with his tours of the Far East, his public criticism of th...

translated by Howard Curtis They say Frasquita knows magic, that she is a healer with occult powers, that perhaps she is a sorcerer. She does indee...

translated by Antony Shugaar August 15, 1839. Messina, Italy. In the home of Marshall don Peppino Padellani di Opiri, preparations for the feast of...

translated by Antony Shugaar Athens, 411 BC. In the countryside, just outside the city gates, two veterans, Trasillo and Polemone, live in adjacent...

translated by Antony Shugaar Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice...

translated by Janet Louth My Friends is Emmanuel Bove’s first and most famous book, and it begins simply, though unusually, enough: “When I wake up...

translated by Anne Mathai and Marie-Louise Naville Little known, little remembered, this is the story of Begum Hazrat Mahal. The soul of the 1857 W...

translated by Barbara Bray It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika Traor...

translated by Edith Grossman October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madr...

translated by Alan Turney In The Three-Cornered World, an artist leaves city life to wander in the mountains on a quest to stimulate his artistic e...

translated by Fuki Uramatsu and Fuki Wooyenaka Uramatsu The Heike Story is a modern translation of a Japanese classic. Kyoto in the twelfth century...

translated by Camilo A. Ramirez On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by a man named James Earl Ray. Before Ray's capture and sentenc...

translated by Krishna Winston Mysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava river, a few friends, associates, and collaborators of a former wr...

translated by Alex Zucker Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomáš Zmeškal's stimulating novel focuses on one family's tragic s...

translated by Howard Curtis October 1493. Florence is still mourning the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Columbus’ ships have only recently reach...

translated by Alyson Waters Emmanuel Bove was one of the most original writers to come out of twentieth-century France and a popular success in his...