Fiction in Translation

Laura Esquivel / Like Water for Chocolate (Hardback)

To the table or to bedYou must come when you are bidThe number-one bestseller in Mexico in 1990, Like Water for Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with bittersweet moments of magic...

Laura Lindstedt / Oneiron (Hardback)

The international bestseller from Finlandia Prize winner Laura Lindstedt.ONEIRON /ó.ne:.ron/ noun, dreamOrigin: Ancient GreekSeven women meet in a white, undefined space seconds after their...

Laurent Binet / HHhH (Large Paperback)

 Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate...

Laurent Binet / The 7th Function of Language (Large Paperback)

Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies struck by a laundry van after lunch with the presidential candidate Francois Mitterand. The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. But what if...

Leila Slimani / Lullaby

 WINNER OF THE DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2019A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYThe baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.When Myriam, a...

Leila Slimani / Lullaby (Large Paperback)

 The baby is dead. It only took a few seconds.When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their...

Lilian Faschinger / Magdalena the Sinner (Hardback)

Written with pace, humor and startling literary allusion, Lilian Faschinger's novel is the story of the sensual Magdalena, who, disguised in a nun's habit, kidnaps a priest at gunpoint and drives him...

Luis Fernando Verissimo / Borges and the Eternal Orangutans (Hardback)

Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of...

Luke Leafgren ( Translator) / Shalash the Iraqi And Other Stories

Populated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans—as well assome very factual politicians, priests, and generals—this novel started life as a...

Manuro Gorobei / The Legend of Grimm's Woods (Large Paperback) ( Hocus & Pocus - Book 1)

Introducing a new series of interactive graphic novels--first published in France, and translated/transported to English language readers by Quirk Books.Enter a world inspired by all of your favorite...

Massimo Carlotto / The Goodbye Kiss (Large Paperback)

An unscrupulous womanizer, as devoid of morals now as he once was full of idealistic fervor, returns to Italy, where he is wanted for a series of crimes. To earn himself the guise of respectability,...

Michael Kumpfmüller / The Glory of Life (Large Paperback)

In July 1923, Franz Kafka is convalescing by the Baltic Sea when he meets Dora Diamant and falls in love. Set over the last year of Kafka's life, the tale of Franz and Dora's fragile time together in...