Fiction In Translation

translated by Annie Tucker One stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, the beautiful Indonesian prostitute Dewi Ayu rise from h...

The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the hou...

translated by Ralph McCarthy It’s a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six ...

translated by Stephen Snyder Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted b...

translated by Sarah Moses It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governmen...

translated by Ralph McCarthy, Charles De Wolf and Ginny Takemori From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in whic...

translated by Ralph McCarthy In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is girls, ro...

translated by Alison Watts Tokunaga is a young comedian struggling to make a name for himself when he is taken under the wing of Kamiya, who is eit...

translated by Mara Faye Lethem Paula's partner has died in a car accident - but no one knows her true grief. Only hours before his death, Mauro rev...

translated by Bryan Karetnyk In a Paris underpass, dirty and dressed in rags, stands a silent beggar. In the evening, he walks the deserted streets...

Translated by Anthony Briggs The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama), originally published in Russian in 1834, is one of the most famous tales in Russi...

translated by Simon Grove The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo conceals a sinister past behind each door; a woman who has buried a child; a scaveng...

translated by Oliver Ready No writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by ...

translated by David Bellos Old-school publisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues There's a lot of good to be said about publishing, mainly about the fo...

translated by Ruth Martin Joseph Roth's sensibility-both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane-produced some of the most ...

translated by Nicolas Slater Pasternak Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His sh...

translated by Max Weiss A hapless Aleppo bureaucrat is stranded in the middle of the deserted countryside as a violent storm sets in. When he seeks...