Fiction in Translation

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 / Dream of Ding Village (Large Paperback)

Here, China's most controversial novelist takes as his subject the contemporary AIDS blood-contamination scandal in Henan province, where villagers were coerced into selling vast quantities of blood...

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...

Yoko Ogawa / The Housekeeper and the Professor (Large Paperback)

  He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury some seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a...

Zoé Valdés / Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada

  Searing and sensual, earthly and elegiac, this novel tells the story of a young woman at sea in a land where the sterility of government dogma belies the verdancy of the vegetation - a...