Fiction In Translation

translated by Natasha Wimmer 'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime': so Bianca begins her tale of growing ...

translated by Georgina Collins When journalist 'MS' interviews the mysterious 'XX' for a job at her Paris magazine, she hires him straight away - b...

Translated by Geoffrey Trousselot In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one ...

translated by Geoffrey Trousselot In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one ...

Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister ...

Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a fourteen-year...

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 Anna Kushner In a neighbourhood that roils with passions and conflicts, at the foot of a cathedral that rises higher day by day, ther...

A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have ver...

translated by Sophie Wilkins It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee o...