Fiction In Translation

Translated by Bonnie Huie Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits disc...

translated by Frederika Randall The Communist is the story of a life lived in the service of a faith and what happens when that faith is lost. Walt...

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 Katherine Silver Available in English for the first time, a collection of deeply humane stories depicting marginalized populations by...

translated by Chen Shih-Hsiang, Harold Acton and Cyril Birch A tale of battling armies, political intrigue, star-crossed romance, and historical ca...

translated by Joel Agee Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the so-called "man without qualities" who is the major character in Robert Musil’s great, u...

translated by Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan A best-selling, autobiographical depiction of class privilege, bad romance, and political intrigue d...

Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind ...

translated by Michael Hofmann 1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath ...

translated by Carl Malmberg A longtime cult-classic in Denmark, this novel about dissolution and despair has been out of print in the US for over e...

translated by Thomas W. Cushing Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the...

translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith Jean-Paul Clébert was a boy from a respectable middle-class family who ran away from school, joined the French...

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 Liesl Schillinger In the marshy, misty countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycle from th...

translated by Edith Grossman Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twen...

translated by David Dollenmayer, Joachim Neugroschel and Marshall Yarbrough In 1985, Gregor von Rezzori published an English translation of a novel...

translated by Douglas Parméeillustrated by Pierre Bonnard The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and...

translated by Ralph Manheim Provocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. Slow Homecomin...

translated by Jordan Stump Two very intelligent, very idealistic young women leave the convent school where they became the fastest of friends to r...

Translated by Karen Van Dyck A tender story about three sisters coming of age in Greece over the course of three summers, now available after being...

translated by Ralph Manheim Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's novels. Full of seed...

translated by Sophie Duvernoy In Berlin, 1930, the name Käsebier is on everyone’s lips. A literal combination of the German words for "cheese" and ...

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...