Fiction in Translation

Umberto Eco / The Prague Cemetery (Large Paperback)

   An inspired twisting of history and fiction by the best-selling author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE. Nineteenth-century Europe-from Turin to Prague to Paris-abounds with the ghastly and the...

Volker Kutscher / The March Fallen

 Longlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 20211933: A homeless veteran is found dead under railway arches in Berlin, apparently killed by an army dagger. Gereon Rath is brought...

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...

William N. Porter - A Hundred Verses from Old Japan - PB

Published in this edition by Tuttle Books, 1990, originally published in this translation by Clarendox Press, London 1909.  A translation into modern English of Hyaku-nin-isshu, with...

Xinran / Miss Chopsticks (Large Paperback)

Esther Tyldesley (Translator) Xinran takes her readers to the heart of modern Chinese society in this delightful and absorbing tale of three peasant girls getting to grips with life in the big...

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...

Yoko Ogawa / The Housekeeper + The Professor

He is a brilliant maths Professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a...