Fiction In Translation

translated by Gregory Norminton Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the Little Pri...

translated by J. G. Nichols In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where the...

translated by H. M. Waidson Seduced by the world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand aspiration of becoming a successful performer and...

translated by Dominic Di Bernardi A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel...

translated by Rupert Copeland Cunningham Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book ...

translated by Richard Seaver A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has...

translated by Richard Howard During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witn...

translated by Maria Jolas A series of sketches and observations of daily life - a crowd gathering in front of shop windows, an old man talking to h...

translated by Christine Brooke-Rose The Battle of Reichenfels has been fought and lost. The army is in flight. The enemy is expected to arrive in t...

translated by Richard Howard After a failed attempt on his life by an unknown terrorist cell, Professor Daniel Dupont decides to fake his own death...

translated by John Calder Set in an unspecified island kingdom, A Regicide tells the story of the statistician Boris who, after the electoral victo...