Fiction In Translation

translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the lif...

translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen In Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in ...

translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lur...

translated by Mark Polizzotti One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano's writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs an...

Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, news...

translated by Anne Milano Appel Claudio Magris's searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war and its savagery in every age ...

Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan Gather together French colonialists, young nationalists eager for independence, and local Maghreb leaders in a ...

translated by Alberto Manguel and Miranda France Acclaimed for the gemlike perfection of her short stories, Liliana Heker has repeatedly received m...

translated by Patrick Camiller A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-a...

tanslated by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last D...

translated by Alex Zucker Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomáš Zmeškal's stimulating novel focuses on one family's tragic s...