Fiction in translation

Nana, by Emile Zola, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bola o's writing.

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Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists.

A luscious summer novel about friends, lovers, and friends' lovers An evocative debut about the fragility and fluidity of adult friendship ObserverFive friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark.

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby cafe, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever.

Clamor of the Lake begins with the appearance of an old fisherman of unknown origin sailing a black boat.

Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Mutazz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

Vivarium is a collection about connection and alienation, belonging and place.

Taha Hussein's classic autobiographical novelThe Dayshelped usher in the era of modern Arabic writing and remains one of the most influential and best-known works of Arabic literatureFor the first time, the three-part autobiography of one of modern Egypt's greatest writers and thinkers is available in a single paperback volume.

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)PalestinianArmenian Ivana eloped with a British doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and emigrated to England.

Abdelilah Hamdouchi seems to have found the formula for the emergence of the Moroccan detective novel.

Joyeux Noël: “[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France’s most esteemed writers―past and present―skillfully translated.

Basrayatha is a literary tribute by author Mohammed Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq.

In typical Drndic style, the reader is offered a view of the past and the present through a collage of different genres - from (pseudo) autobiography to documentary material and culinary recipes as the narrative explores different perspectives on the issue of emigration, the unresolved history of the Second World War, while emphasising the absurdity of politics of differences between neighbouring nations.

On the cusp of womanhood, Daina Tabuna's heroines are constantly confronted with the unexpected.

“Art, love and longing, the French way .

With an introduction by Ben LernerThe truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

Cairo, January 1952.

Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station.

In Riyadh, against the events of the second Gulf War and Saddams invasion of Kuwait, we learn the story of Munirawith the gorgeous eyesand the unspeakable tragedy she suffers as her male nemesis wreaks revenge for an insult to his character and manhood.

With an afterword by Natasha Wimmer.

Winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered by Muhammad Ali's mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, movingly intertwining events on the world scene with the life dramas of its protagonists.

In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see.

'The very quintessence of French romance' The Times'Soaked in Parisian atmosphere, this lovely, clever, funny novel will have you rushing to the Eurostar post-haste.