Fiction in Translation

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...

Valerio Varesi / River of Shadows (Hardback) ( A Commissario Soneri Novel)

In a bleak valley in Northern Italy, the River Po is swollen to its limits. The thick fog that usually clings to the town, blurring its surroundings and plunging its inhabitants into near-blindness,...

Walter Moers / The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Large Paperback)

A delightfully illustrated cult novel, literary satire and epic adventure from German author Walter Moers.'Within the first 15 pages I was carried away by the sheer craziness of it all. Some...

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...