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An existential masterpiece from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century In The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms....

A mesmerizing novel about the magical and gritty world of Bucharest in the 1980s by a celebrated Eastern European writer 'Gripping, impassioned, unexpected' Los Angeles Times A dreamlike novel of...

\"The Story of the Stone\" (c. 1760), also known as \"The Dream of the Red Chamber\", is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao...

The characters in False War are castaways on dry land, stranded on no man's land. Some of them want to leave Cuba and can't, others left and never quite finished...

The first volume of a sweeping fantasy by one of Japan's most beloved storytellers, and the bestselling author of the Moribito series. The vast Umal Empire has flourished for centuries...

THE KOREAN SENSATION For lovers of The Midnight Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop , discover a spellbinding novel about a mysterious bookshop that exists outside of time and...

An unbreakable, life-changing friendship will lead two young girls from different worlds to rebel against the sexism, prejudice and injustice they face living in 1930s Italy in this moving novel...

"Both a pleasure and a testament to life in Ukraine, before" Sunday Times "Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European " A Ukrainian Murakami" Guardian A love letter to the beautiful...

An international bestselling sensation. A murder mystery, family saga, love story, and a tale of financial intrigue wrapped into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, scion of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany,...

Galdos's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web...

THE NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER AWARD 2025 'A masterclass in suspense' PAULA HAWKINS 'A spellbinding nightmare' FERNANDA MELCHOR 'A book of...

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter,...

In this skewed, mordantly funny novel, two women navigate ageing and relationships in divergent ways. Stuck in a bland, low-paying job, Hirai, 38, agrees to move in with her colleague...

A zeppelin leaves Nazi Germany bound for Rio de Janeiro. For those on board it's a luxury holiday, until one of them is murdered in the airship's bathroom. Police Detective...

Crimea, 1854: residents in the besieged city of Sevastopol look out over a harbour punctured by the masts of scuttled ships, and taunt the French forces that keep them trapped...

The writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M. finds herself...

The city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Though so much has vanished with it - classmates, teachers, counterfeit watches, the...

Veronica is late, and Julian is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep....

A young man tries to figure out the best way to live. A young woman struggles to assert herself within a regrettable marriage. A doctor attempts to befriend his most...

"One of the great novels to have been written in our language" MARIO VARGAS LLOSA "Beautifully written and gripping" Guardian He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just...

Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the unnamed narrator of The Memory Monster recounts his own undoing. Hired...

A compelling novel about the requirement to be perfect, without losing sight of yourself - by the greatest feminist of the twentieth-century, Simone de Beauvoir. Laurence is a woman who...

THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER M. is a startling look into the fascist mindset, a portrait of unrelenting determination, and an impeccable work of historical fiction. Italy is exhausted. Tired of...

One of Thailand's best-known and most highly regarded novels, portraying the romance of a young Thai man and a married older woman Nopporn, a Thai student studying in Japan, is...

There is no rest for Inspector Maigret when his seaside holiday leads him to a troubling discovery At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into...

An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power;...

'How often, honestly, does the unveiling in translation of a 'forgotten genius' live up to the hype? Well here's one that does: Raduan Nassar' Times Literary Supplement 'I felt the...

A collection of chilling tales, ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first...

A forgotten masterpiece of Turkish literature, championed by Orhan Pamuk and translated into English for the first time 'Just as she was being lowered into the earth - following the...

The charming novel that inspired the classic New Wave film In free-spirited Paris, Jules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence. They write in cafes, travel when the mood takes...

Thousand Cranes exemplifies Kawabata's mastery of the nuances of human psychology Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to...

From the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, to be published alongside THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has...

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into...

Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then...

Galdos's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web...

One of the most chilling and compassionate of Simenon's extraordinary psychological novels 'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone, nothing but soft, flaccid matter, so much so that his...

An erotic and intricate novella from one of the most enigmatic and important figures in Brazilian literature 'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love' A pair of lovers - a...

A tense and thrilling novel of death and love, new to Penguin Modern Classics Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when...

One of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most personal works, new to Penguin Modern Classics It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of...

Published in 1972,Enemies, A Love Storyis an astonishing novel that blends humour and pathos to create a rich, humane portrayal of a man who cannot escape his past. Herman Broder,...

Singer's haunting second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills....

A powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm...

Sabato's wonderful noir detective novel with a new introduction by Colm Toibin in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan...

Reissued in Modern Classics in the run up to the 50th anniversary of its first publication The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who...

Only edition in print First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcil able relationships. At the...