Fiction in translation

The crime: Reykjav k, August 1941.

The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri is the fourth novel in the wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series.

Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second hand bookshop and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan neighbourhood where multicultural citizens live, love and worship alongside one another.

One of Elena Ferrante's best 40 books by female writersWhen Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed - she finally has the love and affection she craves.

Im fernen Urga hofft er, von seiner dunklen Melancholie erlöst zu werden.

For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions.

Die paradiesische Insel in der Ägäis war menschenleer, nachdem die griechischen Bewohner nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg vertrieben wurden.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history.

** NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES**The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.

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"e;The emotions unleashed in this tale .

'A stunning novel' Daily Mirror Suspenseful original I couldn t put it down Stephen KingTwo brothers.

Rio de Janeiro: Stadt des Karnevals, Meisterin im Spiel der Täuschungsmanöver, der Zufälle und der Maskerade.

One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

"e;Carlos Labbe's [Navidad & Matanza] begins to fuck with your head from its very first word—moving through journalese, financial reporting, whodunit, Joseph Conrad, Raymond Chandler, Nabokov to David Lynch.

Als die besten Freundinnen Lana und Kitty ihrem grauen Alltag in England entfliehen wollen, finden sie Zuflucht auf einer traumhaften Jacht, die mit ihrer faszinierenden Crew von den Philippinen aus in See sticht.

THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II.

'Set at a time of lengthening shadows, this is a novel about the sparks that illuminate the dark: of wisdom, compassion, defiance and courage.

Memduh Selim, einer der geistigen Wegbereiter der kurdischen Erneuerungsbewegung, zieht im Exil rastlos von Metropole zu Metropole: Paris, Istanbul, Alexandria, Beirut, Damaskus.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LIE WITH MEIt is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war.

Winner of the 2017 Best Translated Book AwardLonglisted for the 2017 National Translation Award"e;The book itself is strange-part Faulknerian meditation on the perversities, including sexual, of degenerate country folk; part Dostoevskian examination of good and evil and God-but in its strangeness lies its rare power, and in the sincerity and seriousness with which the essential questions are posed lies its greatness.

WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE'A hypnotic dissection of memory, trauma and belonging'New Statesman'This attempt to imprint upon humanity the experiences of the 2011 T hoku earthquake and tsunami in a way that only a novel can achieve deserves to be highly esteemed'Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police'Here we find a form of language that attempts to venture, dancing, into a past enveloped in silence'Yoko Tawada, author of The Last Children of Tokyo'An eerie, shimmering fever dream .

THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING INTERNATIONAL NOVELThe Top Ten Times bestsellerA Time Magazine Book of the Year'An undeniable page-turner' New York Times'I ADORED this uplifting, hopeful novel ' Daily Mail'It made me laugh and cry and feel comforted' 5***** Reader review'A tribute to the transformative power of books and libraries' Irish TimesAn inspirational tale of the love, comfort and growth you can find in the pages of a good book.

Florence, New Year s Day 1557.

Winner of the Vick Foundation Novel of the Year Award in 2007, Party Headquarters takes place in the eighties and nineties, during Bulgaria's transition from communist rule to democracy.

'A master of suspense' - Sunday TimesWhen Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti returns to work after a personal tragedy, his boss hands him a cold case to ease him back in.

"e;The most important Argentinian writer since Borges.

The Israeli master s exceptional final novelSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Shmuel a young, idealistic student has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantankerous old man.

'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times'Nothing short of brilliant' Wall Street Journal'A subtle, often darkly funny novel about the relationship between art and power' Sunday Times'A dazzling performance and a real page turner' Salman RushdieFrom 'one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today' (Jeffrey Eugenides), a visionary tale inspired by the life of the 20th century film director G.

England, 1989–2009.

Following the chance discovery of certain documents, a historian sets out to unravel the mystery of a murder committed in his childhood Mexico City home in the autumn of 1942.

Winner of the Yomiuri Prize.

"e;The Endless Summer by Madame Nielsen is my literary discovery of the year.

Out of the Cage opens in 1956, in Argentina, with the freakish death of Aurora Berro, and descends into a dark philosophical exploration of humanity and mortality.

At the start of The Translator's Bride, the Translator's bride has left him.

"e;Ricardo Piglia may be the best Latin American writer to have appeared since the heyday of Gabriel Garca Mrquez.

"e;Now I am going to tell the story of something that happened one night years ago, and the events of the morning and afternoon that followed.

The stories in Ukrainian film director, writer, and dissident Oleh Sentsov's debut collection are as much acts of dissent as they are acts of creative expression.

"e;Ricardo Piglia may be the best Latin American writer to have appeared since the heyday of Gabriel Garca Mrquez.

Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.

By blinking his eyes and moving his pupils, a paraplegic man-the onetime vocalist in a famous rock band-composes a kind of anti-biography that is corrected and expanded upon by an unknown editor.

No one knew the story of Elsa Weiss.

A hungry ghost in old Beijing meets his match in a crafty boy.

Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the MurasakiShikibu PrizeCaught between two cultures, award-winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering with dark humor, illuminating the bittersweet joys of being alive.

A hungry ghost in old Beijing meets his match in a crafty boy.

While studying a seventeenth-century diary, the protagonist of Little Dark Room uncovers information about the first documented professional female artist.

The third volume in the classic epic trilogy of parallel worlds, admired by Tolkien and the great prototype for The Lord of the Rings and modern fantasy fiction.

Arina Petrovna rules the Golovlev family with an iron hand.