Fiction in Translation

Author: Jay Rubin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates...

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes...

Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities...

Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during...

Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics Living in the slums of Rio and...

Author: Yoko Ogawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in...

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific...

Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 One of the outstanding writers of the world' New York Times After the early death of her philandering husband,...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 When a man is found dead at home Maigret must look past the seemingly good intentions of the victim's...

Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A new translation of this novel set in a tranquil town on the dutch coast, part of the Maigret...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A homeless loner haunted by his past is found murdered in this murky tale When a socially isolated vagrant...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The...

Author: Leila Slimani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Adele appears to have the perfect life. She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a chic...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Magnificent new translation of Tolstoy' fiction by the acclaimed duo behind War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilyich...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the...

Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Prepare for a bleak midwinter- Nesb 's thriller sees Detective Harry Hole tracking a professional hit man bent on...

Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his...

Author: Gaston Leroux Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's exquisite blend of Gothic horror and tragic romance, which formed the...

Author: Georges Bernanos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jay Rubin's translation of Soseki's cherished novel, new to Penguin Classics One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction,...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret struggles to accept an old case whose conclusion still haunts him At a dinner party, Maigret recounts an...

Author: Per Petterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A moving tale of isolation, the painful loss of innocence and a eulogy for the traditional ways of life...

Author: Philippe Besson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A gorgeous coming-of-age love story about two teenage boys in 1980s France Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe,...

Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 A heart-stopping thriller from the international crime fiction star Love twist-filled crime? The Leopard is your next perfect read....

Author: Caroline Caugant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Thirty-something Parisian artist Billie is working towards her next exhibition when she receives the news that her mother, with whom she...

Author: Leila Slimani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to...

Author: Giuseppe Catozzella Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to...

Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Detective Harry Hole finds himself up against a terrifying serial killer in this thriller by internationally bestselling Jo Nesbo...

Author: Laszlo Krasznahorkai Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 War & War begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge...

Author: Michel Houellebecq Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother...

Author: Elias Khoury Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "Khoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation,...

Author: Petronius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An updated translation of this risque and comic account of three travellers The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous...

Author: Andrea Camilleri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The Overnight Kidnapper is the twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery, from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. After a hectic morning involving...

Author: Andrea Camilleri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Game of Mirrors is the eighteenth exciting instalment in the Inspector Montalbano mysteries by Andrea Camilleri. When Montalbano comes to the...

Author: Camilla Lackberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The psychological thriller debut of No.1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. Now she is his forever. A small town can...