Fiction in Translation

'One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work' - Ali Smith 'The Updike of his day... Zweig is a lucid writer, and Bell renders his prose flawlessly' -...

From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the...

In 1965, UQP first published Ian Fairweather's The Drunken Buddha. His iconic translation of an ancient Chinese novel, illustrated with his paintings, was praised by scholars and readers alike. Fairweather...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANT. A woman is haunted by her own bodily waste. A pregnant woman is told she must...

A newly translated, unabridged edition of Murakami's most mind-bendingly brilliant novel. Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece, in a new, unabridged translation from long-time Murakami collaborator, Jay Rubin. A narrative particle accelerator...

A woman is unnerved when a sinister package arrives in the post - containing her old diary entries. Strange and gripping, this is the unmistakable work of Marlen Haushofer, mistress...

A biting psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express, now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman- tall, beautiful, and not afraid...

If there are two of you, and just one life - who gets to live it? Discover the international million-copy bestseller and profoundly brilliant 2020 Prix Goncourt winner When flight...

The Three Kingdoms is the epic saga of loyalty and treachery, brotherhood and rivalry-and the deeds of legendary heroes and villains during one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese...

A thrilling story of the Monkey King & his epic quest - to redeem himself. He & his trusted friends face fantastic foes, demons & monsters during their amazing adventures...

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010 A murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation. From his village in post-war France, Brodeck...

A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill her dream of becoming a champion runner. Don't Tell Me...

A new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold...

"The most fascinating and wonderful book" JAN MORRIS "A restrained, lyrical tour de force " OWEN SHEERS In the early years of the last century, Rebecca is born into a...

This is the stunning new novel from the author of "The Shadow Of The Wind". In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin...

Traps the reader from the first page with its political undertones and its undeniable charm. -- Isabel Allende This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist...

Hisataro, a young member of the wealthy Fuchigami family, has a mysterious ability. Every now and then, against his will, he falls into a time-loop in which he is obliged...

A heartwarming bestselling Korean novel about the power of books to heal, as a woman leaves her busy life in Seoul to open a bookshop cafe in the countryside where...

Twenty-nine-year-old Riki is sick of her dead-end job, of struggling to get by ever since she moved to Tokyo from the country. So when someone offers her the chance to...

After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas walks out the front door. Thomas walks up the street. Thomas keeps walking. Astrid gradually...

'Fresh, fearless, faithful and original. One of the great crime series of our time could not be in safer, more capable hands' Chris Whitaker Discover Lisbeth Salander - one of...

'MAGNIFICENT' GUARDIAN 'A TOWERING ACHIEVEMENT' FINANCIAL TIMES 'INVENTIVE, BOLD, UNEXPECTED' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'The kind of novel summer is made for: instantly immersive, effortlessly wise' Observer 'Masterly: a cabinet of...

Angelica's Smile is the seventeenth gripping title in the hit Italian Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri. After sitting in the car on the hill for about ten minutes, Montalbano...

Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Emile Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere...

Lo enjoys a sheltered safe childhood, but when she is six years old a fire breaks out in a field by her home, and in the aftermath she makes a...

Paris, May 1940. Nazi troops storm the city and at Le Bourget airport, on the last flight out, sits Dr Alexandre Yersin, his gaze politely turned away from his fellow...

'Bruising and brilliant. This is a great river of a book. Magnificent... Unique' Independent Growing up in sixties Oslo, Barnum lives with an extended, eccentric family and his older half-brother,...

A SUNDAY TIMES MUST READS PICK "Boundless imagination and a vibrant style . . . a heroine of unforgettable grit" DAVID GROSSMAN "A story of great beauty and surprise" GARY...

This "Critical Edition" of "Fathers and Sons", translated and edited by Michael R. Katz, is accompanied by a selection of Turgenev's letters, illustrating his involvement in the critical storm that...

An explosive stand-alone thriller about family, loyalty, and the lengths people will go to cling on to power, from the Sunday Times number one bestselling author Jo Nesbo FAMILY COMES...

From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo cafe where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday...

New to Penguin Clothbound Classics, Gaston Leroux's classic tale of Gothic horror and tragic romance Rumours that a ghost stalks the dark passages and cellars of the Paris Opera House,...

In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life...

On 16 March 1978, Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed all five members of his escort and bundled Moro into...

Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of...

Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going...

The prequel to the internationally bestselling novel Suite Fran aise- a coruscating, powerful story about one man's rise and fall and the brutal impact of war The prequel to the...

The spellbinding novel from one of the world's best-loved authors, Paulo Coelho, recounting the story of Brida, and her pursuit of wisdom. This is the story of Brida, a young...

When I read back through my diaries or listen to Robin's stories, I come across completely unknown events, as if another person lived that time in my place. And still,...

Giuseppe is leaving his flat in the city of Rome, where he has lived for more than twenty years, to go and live with his brother in America. He must...

A man returns to his hometown to clear out the flat of his recently deceased mother. While there, he cannot resist visiting his former lover. As the storm rages in...

A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in...

Nineteen-year-old Lea is from a village that is out of time, out of jobs and out of hope. She and her friends, however, are vivid and electric with life. They...