Fiction In Translation

Translated by Eli K. P. William Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a...

translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak This play by renowned poet and political activist Aimé Césaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumb...

Translated by Sandy Joosun Lee The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this poignant and triumphant story about how ...

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 ...

Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf―and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school studen...

Translated by Shaun Whiteside April 1945, the last days of the Nazi regime. While bombs are falling on Berlin, the Gestapo are still searching for ...

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 Flora Drew Called "Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut... powerful!" by Margaret Atwood on Twitter, China Dream is an unflinching satire of...

Translated by Sora Kim-Russell Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is s...

Translated by Jeremy Tiang In the 1910s, thirteen-year-old Leong Ping Hung comes to Singapore from China to seek his fortune. Decades later, he is ...

Death Is Hard Work is a tale of three people embarking on an absurd quest - an unforgettable journey into a contemporary heart of darkness. At a h...

Translated by Tina Kover Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-f...

Translated by Chris Andrews Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene. But the military c...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an ali...

Translated by Sim Wai Chew Hok Leong only knows one thing about his future: he does not want to become an office boy buying coffee for his superior...

Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none m...

Translated by Marjam Idriss Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist c...

Translated by Michael Kandel Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space. By pure chance, scientists ...

Translated by Lorin Stein I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited hi...

Translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping Can Xue's stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule the...

Translated by Jamie Chang Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while he...

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 Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe 'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what ...

translated by Tan Dan Feng Featuring new translations of previously untranslated Chinese short stories, Memorandum maps out seven decades of Sinoph...

Vol. 1 of the brand new MONKEY will be 152 pages of full color and printed at a larger trim size, allowing you to enjoy MONKEY like never before. T...

A young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and el...

Translated by Ann Goldstein The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these...

Translated by David Hackston In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy ma...

translated by Ted Goossen Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhe...

Translated by Ted Goosen Shiga Naoya, the master of Japanese 'I fiction', was encouraged by acclaimed novelist Soseki Natsume to serialise an accou...

translated by Ralph Manheim Filip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never knew. All he has i...

An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes. Stanislaw Lem's Return from the Stars recount...

Translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virt...

Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is...

translated by Ralph Manheim Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's novels. Full of seed...

Translated by Hilda Rosner Siddhartha, the son of a wealthy Brahmin, is unable to find peace within his own religion and community so sets off on h...

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...

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at...

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 E. Dale Saunders 'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches th...

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 Robert Baldick As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and ...

Translated by Michele Hutchison Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protec...

Translated by Sherif Hetata Bint Allah knows herself only as the Daughter of God. Born in a stifling male-dominated state, ruled by the Imam and hi...

translated by Michael Roloff Joseph Bloch, a once-famous goalkeeper turned construction worker, commits a random murder without thought or regret. ...

translated by Andrea Rosenberg Liborio has to leave Mexico, a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival. He crosses th...

Translated by William Brand An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking plac...

Translated by Bill Johnston A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines. In the grand...