Fiction in Translation

Umberto Eco / The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana (Large Paperback)

 Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite...

Valérie Perrin / Three (Large Paperback)

From the international bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers, a masterfully crafted and suspenseful story about the ties between friends and the choices that make us who we are...

Wanda Gag ( Translator) / Tales from Grimm (Exact Copy)

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Willem Frederik Hermans / A Guardian Angel Recalls

Alberegt, a public prosecutor and self-proclaimed “man of minor failings,” speeds through Hook of Holland in his black Renault on May 9, 1940. His every move is guided by the cool and...

Yan Lianke / Heart Sutra (Large Paperback)

Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke -- 'China's most controversial novelist' (New Yorker) -- returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she...

Ye Zhaoyan / Nanjing 1937 : A Love Story (Large Paperback)

Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded this historic capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes - Nanjing 1937 is a tender story of...

Yoel Hoffmann / Katschen & The Book Of Joseph (Hardback)

Katschen & The Book of Joseph makes an amazing American debut for Israeli writer Yoel Hoffmann. Intensely moving, the two novellas display the entirely original poetry and hypnotic verve of...