Fiction in translation

'The seed of madness exists in all of us and with no warning may attack, overpower, crush and bury us .

'I felt the powerful strength of my family overrunning me like a heavy rush of water'For Andr , a young man growing up on a farm in Brazil, life consists of 'the earth, the wheat, the bread, our table and our family'.

WINNER OF THE VONDEL PRIZE 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New York TimesShortly before his death, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather Urbain Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the detailed memories of his life.

A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem.

A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.

From the author of the bestselling Suite Fran aise.

"e;A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat.

'This book's power lies in its depiction of civilians trying to lead ordinary lives during the horror of war .

Franz Kafkas bizarrely comedic meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation expressed through the story of a man who is transformed overnight into a giant beetle, now repackaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre.

Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Mart s fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy and revenge.

Translated by Marilyn Booth Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2023 Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardAn extraordinary novel from a Man Booker International Prize-winning author that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life for herself in Britain and reflects on the relationships that have made her from a ';remarkable' writer who has ';constructed her own novelistic form' (James Wood,The New Yorker).

'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.

This is Mishima's novel about the pressure of living an idealised life.

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A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'One of Europe's great writers' Karl Ove KnausgaardOne evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husband will leave her.

The million-copy bestselling series.

A murderous game.

What does it take to stand together?

Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon now a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.

'How simple this novel is.

Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, Roberto Bolano's Nazi Literature in the Americas details the lives of a rich cast of characters from one of the most extraordinary imaginations in world literature.

She knows the only way to fight him is to fall into his trap.

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

'A superb novel .

Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route.

A puzzling phone call shatters a writer s routine.

'Breathlessly suspenseful, ingeniously plotted and impossible to put down' Yrsa Sigurdardottir The epic, explosive Fabian Risk series concludes with this action-packed thriller from international number one bestseller Stefan Ahnhem.

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA master criminal and a master detective are locked in battle.

In The Proposal, a space opera romance set against the backdrop of a looming war between Earth and a mysterious adversary, a story of love unfolds through a series of intimate letters.

In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Mar as, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors too often enshrined in the halo of artistic sainthood.

Per Petterson masters the art of writing simply about big subjects, and this is the heartwarming debut that brought the author of the highly acclaimed Out Stealing Horses to prominence Arvid Jansen is a young boy who lives on the outskirts of Oslo.

'GOOD FOR THE SOUL' iNews'MESMERISING' Sunday Post'LYRICAL' iPaper'TENDER AND MOVING' Woman's OwnA POWERFUL, MOVING NOVEL OF GRIEF, HOPE, FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE BASED ON A REAL HEARTBEAT ARCHIVE ON AN ISLAND IN JAPAN.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Ends with one of the most reverberating shocks in modern crime fiction' The Sunday Times 'A dazzling, unexpected and haunting masterpiece' Daily Mail 'A work of genius.

Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon now a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.

'Only the earth is immortal.

A secluded hut in the middle of the woods.

A collection of short stories set in and around Rome from Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies.

Winner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation'Both a great anti-war novel and a love story, full of tenderness - as around it the world shatters.

A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates some of the very best Japanese literature from the past hundred years.

From the author of the bestselling Suite Fran aise.

What would you do if your child was suspected of murder?

Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold .

Both a delightful murder mystery and a comic novel, fired by love and obsession and filled with memorable characters, Hunting Season is a captivating novel from Andrea Camilleri, the bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series.

The million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.

'This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end' Rose Tremain Monsieur Grandet is a very rich man whose chief care is his gold.

A cult classic of Italian literature, published in English for the first time, with an afterword by Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name.

A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to.

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**A Times 19 Best Books of 2024****A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2024**** A Times 10 Best Crime and Mystery Books of 2024 so far**"e;A police procedural unlike anything else in contemporary crime fiction"e; Sunday Times"e;The greatest exponent of the policier at work today"e; Mark Sanderson, The TimesAdam Sirkis needs to flee Syria.