Fiction In Translation

Translated by Ralph McCarthy Since the death of his wife seven years ago, documentary maker Aoyama has not dated anyone else. Now even his teenage ...

translated by Julia Lovell Lu Xun is one of the founding figures of modern Chiense literature. In the early twentieth century, as China came up aga...

translated by Sanford Goldstein In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love, set against t...

translated by Alfred Birnbaum It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually app...

translated by Stephen Snyder He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he ...

Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, ...

translated by John Gledson Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is the great Brazilian author of Philosopher or Dog? and Epitaph of a Small Winner, whose w...

translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver The Cosmicomics tell the story of the history of the universe, from the big bang, thr...

translated by H. Bencraft Joly The Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the "Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature." It is renowned for i...

The Water Margins in one of the 'Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature'. Based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions...

translated by Michael Glenny With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural...

translated by Jay Rubin Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit tele...

translated by Lucia Graves The stunning new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind. In an abandoned mansion at...

translated by Anthea Bell It is 1945 and in the devastating opening scene, a young mother named Helene stands with her seven-year-old son in a prov...

translated by Antony Shugaar Closing the door on a crime ridden past, Marco Buratti plans to spend the rest of his days in the darkness of a seedy ...