Fiction in Translation

Per Olav Enquist / Lewi's Journey (Hardback)

Lewi Pethrus, a humble preacher and unsuccessful writer, and Sven Lidman, a bohemian poet haunted by his failed marriage, lead the Swedish Pentecostal movement from a crumbling renegade congregation...

Pertti Jarla / Fingerpori from Finland (Hardback)

Welcome to Fingerpori, the strangest and funniest town in Finland!Pertti Jarla's praised comic strip tells all you need to know about being a Finn.And then some more! Translated by Pertti...

Piergiorgio Pulixi / The Night of the Panthers (Large Paperback)

Money, sex, and power. Inspector Biagio Mazzeo is the head of a special unit composed cops who have been trained in the investigation of organized crime. He is a kind of father figure to these hard...

Qian Zhongshu / Fortress Besieged (Hardback)

Fortress Besieged is a classic of Chinese literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy and middle class Chinese society in the Republican era...

Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti / Imprimatur (Hardback)

11 September 1683, Rome.The citizens of the city wait anxiously for the outcome of the battle for Vienna as Ottoman forces lay siege to the defenders of Catholic Europe. Meanwhile, a suspected...

Saša Stanišić / How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Hardback)

For young Aleksandar Krsmanoviæ, his grandfather Slavko’s credo- ''the most valuable gift of all is invention, imagination is your greatest wealth”--endows life in Višegrad,...

Serge Brussolo / The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome (Hardback)

An undisputed French master of the fantastic—as prolific as Stephen King; as original as Philip K. Dick— in English translation for the first time. In The Deep Sea Diver’s...

Shusaku Endo / Silence (Vintage Paperback)

Published in 1967 in Japan to huge controversy, Silence is Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed novel and a classic of its genre. Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in...

Stanley Burnshaw / The POEM ITSELF: 150 of the Finest Modern Poems in the Original Languages (Large Paperback)

This classic work contains over 150 of the greatest modern French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian poems presented in the original languages, accompanied by a literal translation...

Tove Alsterdal / We Know You Remember (Large Paperback)

   Eira remembers Olof being sent away, but that was over two decades ago. No one in their small rural community has seen or heard from him since, but the spectre of his crime lingers in...

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz / The Passenger

 BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is...

Ulrich Plenzdorf / The New Sorrows of Young W.

 Edgar W., teenage dropout, unrequited lover, unrecognized genius - and dead - tells the story of his brief, spectacular life.It is the story of how he rebels against the petty rules of...