Fiction In Translation

translated by Ann Goldstein Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing thing...

translated by Ann Goldstein The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these...

translated by Jhumpa Lahiri Luminously translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, Ties is the searing new novel by bestselling Ital...

translated by Tina Kover Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-f...

translated by Ann Goldstein The second book, following 2012’s acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two prot...

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 Howard Curtis Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is the author of three luminous collections of short stories published by Europa Editions, includ...

translated by Andrea Rosenberg Irene’s husband has left her for a younger woman and her family business is on the verge of collapse, but the last t...

translated by Howard Curtis Vincent once had a shot at becoming a professional soccer player, but a career-ending injury put an end to his dreams. ...

translated by Steven Rendall It’s the middle of a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore and the town is full of tourists. Sebag and Mol...

translayed by Alex Ladd Rio de Janeiro, 1913. The Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic is murdered at the former home of the Marquesa de San...

translated by Alison Anderson Édith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate. How ...

translated by Antony Shugaar Al Santamaria is a child prodigy, maybe a genius. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he, alone, will save ...

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

translated by Ann Goldstein This fourth and final installment in the series gives validation to the New York Times Book Review’s opinion of its aut...

translated by Ann Goldstein The second book, following 2012’s acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two prot...

translated by Ann Goldstein Following her mother’s untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her...

translated by Antony Shugaar This novel, by one of Italy’s bestselling crime novelists, provides a unique perspective on the criminal and social dy...

translated by Christopher Woodall A woman has gone missing. Her husband, too ashamed to admit to the police that he and his wife were part of a rin...

translated by Howard Curtis and Katherine Gregor The Carousel of Desire is a sexual and romantic saga told with a master storyteller's feel for cha...

translated by Alison Anderson Suspense and tense interpersonal dynamics characterize this taut bestselling novel set in the world of international ...

translated by Alison Anderson Anna, Hanna, and Anny. Three young women, free spirits all, each one at odds with the age in which they live. Despite...

translated by Tina Kover Murder and depravity are Police Commissioner Amédée Mallock’s daily bread. As far as he is concerned, mankind has been tho...

translated by Tim Mohr Russian-born Alina Bronsky, whose Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekl...

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

translated by Alison Anderson Every Thursday night at 7 o’clock a group of three men meet in Paris. Each man’s life, his story, his situation, is a...

translated by Tina Kover When Adélaïde’s parents find her mute and unable to explain why she is crying, they bring her to the police station and fi...

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 Katherine Gregor Out of the struggles and conflicts in the border regions of Northern Italy and Austria and the rich history that has...

translated by Ann Goldstein A fun and farcical novel, this new "whodunit" about life in multicultural Italy by Amara Lakhous will delight fans of L...

translated by Alison Anderson Made famous by artists, writers, and bon vivants of every ilk, Montmartre has been the stomping ground for bohemian c...

translated by Meredith McKinney Two immigrants, Salimah and Sayuri, navigate isolation, a new language, and devastating loss on their way to a life...

translated by Howard Curtis Santiago Gamboa is one of Colombia's most exciting young writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolaño, Gamboa infuses his k...

translated by Alison Anderson From the story of a truck driver who reacts to his son’s death with a gesture of awkward kindness to the alcoholic wi...

translated by Jennifer Rappaport Our story opens with Billie and Franck trapped in a gorge in the Cévennes Mountains. As Franck lies unconscious, B...

translated by Alison Anderson Four siblings are reunited one afternoon in the French countryside after skipping out on a boring family wedding. Lea...

translated by Will Schutt Thirteen-year-old Luna lives in a small town on the coast of Tuscany. She is smart and funny. When her beloved brother Lu...

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 Andrea Rosenberg Liborio has to leave Mexico, a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival. He crosses th...

translated by Howard Curtis This new novel by Marco Malvaldi marks the return of the investigative quartet nicknamed the “senile squad.” At the Bar...

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 Howard Curtis A Colombian philosophy student is arrested in Bangkok and accused of drug trafficking. Unless he enters a guilty plea h...

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 Antony Shugaar Giorgio Pellegrini, the unforgettable hero of The Goodbye Kiss, has been living an “honest” life for eleven years. But...

translated by Christopher Woodall Arias Cuevas sets in motion a chain of bloody events when police catch him trying to carry a shipment of la Tía’s...