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Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossomin...
View full detailsSentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossomin...
View full detailsHere are thirteen short stories from the new frontiers of Chinese science fiction, selected and translated by Hugo, Nebula, Locus and World Fantasy...
View full detailsTranslated by Jeremy Tiang When the fervour of revolution is gone, what remains? Four leftist teenagers in 1950s Malaya dedicate themselves to over...
View full detailsFeaturing a selection of short stories written between the 1960s and 2000, this collection charts Yeng Pway Ngon's evolution in subject matter and ...
View full detailstranslated by Len Rix Emerence is a domestic servant – strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Ma...
View full detailstranslated by Deborah Smith Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is ...
View full detailstranslated by Allison Markin Powell Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano's thrift store, ther...
View full detailsTranslated 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...
View full details'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king i...
View full detailstranslated by Jhumpa Lahiri Luminously translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, Ties is the searing new novel by bestselling Ital...
View full detailstranslated by Nazry Bahrawi A rainbow is glimpsed in the enveloping darkness of Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s stories. Precious because it is mostly fleet...
View full detailstranslated 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...
View full detailsStolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, news...
View full detailstranslated by James Naughton A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes. His raucous, mischievous Uncle Pepin came to st...
View full detailstranslated by James Naughton In a quiet town where not much happens, Maryska, the flamboyant brewer's wife, stands out. She cuts her skirt short so...
View full detailstranslated by Margaret Jull Costa In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people...
View full detailstranslated by Nicky Harman From one of China's foremost authors, Jia Pingwa's Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing conte...
View full detailstranslated by Anne Milano Appel Claudio Magris's searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war and its savagery in every age ...
View full detailsORACLES AND MIRACLES - three tales by Hideo Furukawa, translated by David Boyd THE MAGICIAN - a short story by Taki Monma, translated by Ted Goosse...
View full detailstranslated by Juliet Winters Carpenter A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Award-winning Ja...
View full detailstranslated by Tiffany Tsao She's a free-spirited dreamer. He's a brilliant painter. But now their shared passion for art has turned into something ...
View full detailstranslated by Stephen Sartarelli From the author of the Inspector Montalbano series comes the remarkable account of an exceptional woman who rises ...
View full detailsTranslated by Teresa Lavender Fagan Gather together French colonialists, young nationalists eager for independence, and local Maghreb leaders in a ...
View full detailstranslated by Alison Anderson Suspense and tense interpersonal dynamics characterize this taut bestselling novel set in the world of international ...
View full detailsTranslated by Linda Owens For Maya, history is like a dream, and her dreams are like a history of her life and how it relates to others. Effortless...
View full detailstranslated by Margaret Jull Costa For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift f...
View full detailstranslated by Margaret Jull Costa Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, o...
View full detailstranslated by Katherine Gregor In a medieval Venice undone by devastating famine and excessive, orgiastic Carnival festivities of all kinds, the pr...
View full detailstranslated by Alison Anderson Coeur was the King of France’s visionary First Banker who, with his tours of the Far East, his public criticism of th...
View full detailstranslated by Howard Curtis Santiago Gamboa is one of Colombia's most exciting young writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolaño, Gamboa infuses his k...
View full detailstranslated by Will Schutt Thirteen-year-old Luna lives in a small town on the coast of Tuscany. She is smart and funny. When her beloved brother Lu...
View full detailstranslated by Rupert Copeland Cunningham Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book ...
View full detailstranslated by Eliza Marciniak Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a desert...
View full detailstranslated by Helen R. Lane One June day in 1955 Alejandra, last of a noble yet decaying Argentinian dynasty, shoots her father, locks herself up w...
View full detailstranslated by Barbara Bray It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika Traor...
View full detailstranslated by Sophie Wilkins It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee o...
View full detailstranslated by Krishna Winston Mysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava river, a few friends, associates, and collaborators of a former wr...
View full detailstranslated by Georgina Collins When journalist 'MS' interviews the mysterious 'XX' for a job at her Paris magazine, she hires him straight away - b...
View full detailstranslated by Ted Goossen Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and ...
View full detailsAt the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his first novel, The Experience of P...
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