Fiction In Translation

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

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...

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 Stephen Snyder Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned ...

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 ...

We all have something to tell those we have lost... When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she wonders how she will ever carry on. ...

translated by Ann Goldstein Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing thing...

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 Lizzie Buehler Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company speciali...

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 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 ...

translated by Ken Liu AD2201. Just over a century ago, the Martian colonies declared their independence. After a brief conflict, Earth and Mars cut...

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callous...

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

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...

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recen...

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

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

translated by Yewon Jung Criminal psychologist Seonkyeong receives an unexpected call one day. Yi Byeongdo, a serial killer whose gruesome murders ...

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

translated by Ken Liu Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of Time continues Cixin Liu’...

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 Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, ...

Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything dow...

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...

Although it means leaving behind the community of disciples who have followed him on his travels and assembled at his raves and gatherings, Vernon ...

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 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 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 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 Laura Lonsdale Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebelliou...

translated by Allison Markin Powell Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, ano...

translated by Ralph Manheim One evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husba...

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

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...

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...

Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story trad...

translated by Ann Goldstein The second book, following 2012’s acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two prot...

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

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...