Fiction in Translation

Francisco Sionil José / Tree (Large Paperback)

 Tree belongs to Francisco Sionil Jose's largest body of work known as the Rosales novels. Like much of his fiction, it depicts man's continuing and often futile search for justice and a...

Francoise Sagan / Aimez-Vous Brahms... (Vintage Paperback)

At thirty-nine years old, Paule is a divorced interior designer. Roger, her lover, who is busy with important business, makes distant visits to her, which she awaits with a certain indolence. She is...

Greg Delanty & Michael Matto ( Editors) - The Word Exchange : Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation - HB - 2011

Hardcover first US edition, Norton 2011. The Word Exchange brings to life a dazzling variety of Anglo-Saxon poetry by an all-star cast of contemporary poets in an authoritative bilingual edition...

Gu Byeong-mo / The Old Woman with the Knife (Large Paperback)

Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. A fighter who has experienced loss and grief early on in life, she lives in a state of self-imposed isolation,...

Guillaume Musso / The Reunion (Large Paperback)

 An elite prep school frozen in the snow Three friends linked by a tragic secretOne girl taken by the nightThe French Riviera – 25 years agoOne freezing night, as her campus is paralyzed...

Gustaf Skördeman / Codename Faust

 Who have you spoken to about me?What do you know about Operation Wahasha?What have you told Detective Sara Nowak?These are the last words priest Jürgen Stiller hears before he is executed...

Hallgrímur Helgason / 101 Reykjavik

 Hlynur Björn is an unemployed 30-something loner, still living with his mum, who spends his days on the Internet, watching satellite TV, and gazing at girls in the pub. But Hlynur's cosy,...

Hanna Bervoets / We had to Remove this Post

We Had to Remove This Post, the seventh novel by Dutch author Hanna Bervoets and her first to be translated into English, is nothing if not timely. Its young narrator, Kayleigh, has just quit...

Hao Jingfang / Vagabonds (Hardback)

A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the...

Henri Cueco / Conversations With My Gardener (Hardback)

Two men, both advancing in years, converse in a garden deep in the French countryside. One is an artist, the other his gardener. On finishing his work, the gardener enters the studio and looks over...

Iosi Havilio / Open Door (Large Paperback)

When her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. She finds herself living with an aging ranch-hand,...

Javier Cercas / The Impostor (Large Paperback)

 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018 A TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION - FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCOBut who is Enric Marco? A veteran of the Spanish...