Fiction in Translation

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...

Umberto Eco / Numero Zero (Hardback)

1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain shrouded in controversy.1992, Milan. Colonna, a...

Umberto Eco / The Island of the Day Before (Hardback)

    In 1643 a castaway comes upon an abandoned ship anchored off a desert island. As he explores the vessel's mysterious cargo, he revisits the events of his tempestuous youth-and limns...

Umberto Eco / The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana (Large Paperback)

 Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite...

Umberto Eco / The Prague Cemetery (Hardback)

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombing...

Victoria Mas / The Mad Women's Ball (Le Bal des Folles)

 The Salpêtrière asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society. But...

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...