
1Q84
The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates...
View full detailsThe year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates...
View full detailsA Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a m...
View full detailstranslated 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...
View full detailstranslated 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...
View full detailsstrong>translated by Anna Holmwood Set in ancient China, in a world where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power and the battle to become the ...
View full detailstranslated by Natasha Wimmer 'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime': so Bianca begins her tale of growing ...
View full detailstranslated by Roger Nelson A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land traces the story of Sam, a young man who leaves the countryside for the capital after ...
View full detailstranslated by John Calder Set in an unspecified island kingdom, A Regicide tells the story of the statistician Boris who, after the electoral victo...
View full detailstranslated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak This play by renowned poet and political activist Aimé Césaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumb...
View full detailsIt is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the Pomerani...
View full detailstranslated by Alfred Birnbaum It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually app...
View full detailstranslated by Alfred Birnbaum A marvellous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched...
View full detailstranslated by David Dollenmayer, Joachim Neugroschel and Marshall Yarbrough In 1985, Gregor von Rezzori published an English translation of a novel...
View full detailsIn After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychological insight are distilled with an extraordinary, h...
View full detailsWith vast psychological acuity and an unblinking insight into the nature of political and domestic warfare, Yukio Mishima creates a portrait of a m...
View full detailstranslated by Mark Polizzotti One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano's writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs an...
View full detailstranslated by Jay Rubin For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent t...
View full detailstranslated by Joel Agee Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the so-called "man without qualities" who is the major character in Robert Musil’s great, u...
View full detailsIn Agua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time ...
View full detailsSenhor Jose is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Among the file-cards f...
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 Sandy Joosun Lee The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this poignant and triumphant story about how ...
View full detailstranslated by Mark Harman Kafka began writing what he had entitled 'Der Verschollene' ('The Missing Person') in 1912 and wrote the last completed c...
View full detailstranslated by Oliver Ready No writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by ...
View full detailstranslated by Norma Moore Field Sōseki Natsume is considered to be one of Japan's most beloved and respected authors. And Then is ranked as one of ...
View full detailstranslated by Stephen J. Epstein A dazzling and provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fie...
View full detailsIn this, his atmospheric final work of fiction, the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich introduces an unforgettabl...
View full detailsTranslated by Ralph McCarthy Since the death of his wife seven years ago, documentary maker Aoyama has not dated anyone else. Now even his teenage ...
View full detailsWesterners familiar only with stereotypical images of bowing geisha and dark-suited businessmen will be surprised by the cast of characters transla...
View full detailstranslated by Joel Martinsen Chen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's interest in his dis...
View full detailsBALTASAR & BLIMUNDAby José Saramagopublished by Vintage * In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in...
View full detailstranslated 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 ...
View full detailstranslated by Frances W. Pritchett Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common p...
View full detailstranslated by Howard Hibbett The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a youn...
View full detailstranslated by Annie Tucker One stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, the beautiful Indonesian prostitute Dewi Ayu rise from h...
View full detailstranslated by Geoffrey Trousselot In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one ...
View full detailstranslated 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 ...
View full detailstranslated by Flora Drew Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten yea...
View full detailstanslated 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...
View full detailstranslated by Jennifer Rappaport Our story opens with Billie and Franck trapped in a gorge in the Cévennes Mountains. As Franck lies unconscious, B...
View full detailstranslated by Alison Anderson Édith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate. How ...
View full detailstranslated by Michael Glenny When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To ...
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 detailstranslated by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the thin...
View full detailsNo food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose ...
View full detailsBooksActually's Gold Standard 2016 is a highly anticipated new annual anthology from indie bookstore BooksActually, comprising short fiction by the...
View full detailstranslated by Umeji Sasaki A modern classic in Japan on par with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye, Botchan is a very po...
View full detailstranslated 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 ...
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