Skip to main content

Fiction in Translation

Bruno Lloret
Current price: $19.95
"Extraordinary...reach es] a new, unexpected, dissident realism." --Alejandro Zambra, author of My Documents and Multiple Choice Alone again in a Chile punctuated by graves, footsteps, x-rays, and crosses, Nancy looks back on her life. Before her cancer, before her husband's ridiculous death, before ... Read More about
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days
Nona Fernández
Current price: $16.00
* Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature * An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invaders It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissiden ... Read More about
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days
Olga Tokarczuk
Current price: $18.00
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx In a r ... Read More about
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days
Yukio Mishima
Current price: $17.00
“A propulsive, madcap story” (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. • "An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of the world." —The AtlanticAfter salaryman Hanio Yam ... Read More about
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days
Vigdis Hjorth
Current price: $19.95
Winner of the 2020 Believer Book Award for Fiction "A brilliant study of the mundane, full of unexpected detours and driving prose. Hjorth's novel ingeniously orbits the intimate stories that are possible only when a character has put words on paper and sent them through the post." – New York Times ... Read More about
Tove Jansson
Current price: $15.95
In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a t ... Read More about
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days
Clarice Lispector
Current price: $19.95
Clarice Lispector’s best-selling masterpiece—“her finest book” (The Nation)—now in a special hardcover edition to celebrate the centenary of her birth, with an illuminating new afterword by her son The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector’s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrate ... Read More about
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days
Aoko Matsuda
Current price: $16.95
In this "delightfully uncanny" collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales (The New York Times Book Review), humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services—from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime. A busybody ... Read More about
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days
Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
Current price: $20.00
Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love, mysterious phobias, and the hellish curse of everlasting life. In this collection of nine eerie stories, ... Read More about
Giacomo Sartori
Current price: $18.00
Finalist for the 2022 Philip K. Dick Award With the wicked humor and imagination that made readers fall in love with his novel I Am God, Giacomo Sartori brings us a madcap story of family dysfunction, (dis)ability, intelligent robots, bees, and a family of misfit savants living outside the bounds. I ... Read More about
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days
João Gilberto Noll
Current price: $14.95
Like an Edenic Adam birthed from the clay, our narrator rises to his feet from the muck--reborn, or something like that. Unbeknownst to him, he's on a desperate search for Harmada, the capital city of an unnamed nation and the land of his former glory. Told using Noll's characteristic fragmented log ... Read More about
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days
Elvira Navarro
Current price: $19.95
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature These eleven stories from one of Granta's "Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists" combine gritty surrealism with explosive interior meditations, traversing the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom. In the title ... Read More about
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days
Lia Levi
Current price: $18.00
Inspired by true events during World War II, Lia Levi's prize-winning novel of loss, despair, and courage tells the tragic history of mid-century Europe through the eyes and lives of ordinary people. "An intense, moving book that tells the story of stories: what happens when Fascism befalls a countr ... Read More about
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days