Fiction in Translation

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky... A bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist. ...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies. 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy...

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: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say' - Italo Calvino You...

Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 Stalingrad is the prequel to Life and Fate, one of the twentieth century's greatest novels. This is its first...

Author: Yasunari Kawabata Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret sets the record straight and tells the story of his own life, giving a rare glimpse into the...

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: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret is drawn into the sorry tale of a man unable to escape from the dullness of daily life....

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret is touring the United States to observe American policing methods, when a visit to a coroner's inquest in...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret is called to investigate the stabbing of a young man When a tape recorder is found on a...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret is called to testify in court and reveals his doubts on the guilt of the accused Maigret receives...

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: 192 Maigret gets tangled up with some notorious American Gangsters in this new translation. 'You're a good soul, inspector, and...

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: Yiyun Li Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from the critically acclaimed author...

Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse, retells one of the world's best-loved books for a new...

Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The first of Hermann Hesse's novels to reflect his new way of thinking about the mind and his interest...

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: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 With Paris under siege following a series of murders, Maigret must hatch a cunning plan to lure the murderer...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An old woman's cries for help are left unanswered in this gripping story. A kind but seemingly paranoid old...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 While on holiday Maigret gets involved in a local murder case Maigret and his wife takes a much needed...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret heads to a small seaside town where the residents are closing ranks to hide the truth When a...

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics...

Author: Philippe Claudel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 From the author of Grey Souls and Brodeck's Report: a chilling island fable of murder, exploitation and complicity "A parable about...

Author: Thomas Mann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on...

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 Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Inspector Maigret investigates an attack on a Parisian tramp When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being...

Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 New to Penguin Modern Classics- a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy Copenhagen,...

Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A new translation from master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, The Little Prince is the perfect gift to enchant children and grown-up...

Author: Colette Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'He must...

Author: Ma Jian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A biting satire of Chinese totalitarianism from the critically acclaimed author of Beijing Coma and Red Dust. 'One of...

Author: Tarjei Vesaas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway. In winter, the...

Author: Bohumil Hrabal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech...

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: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret loses his composure when a suspect plots to tarnish his reputation During a quiet spell in June Maigret...

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: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret struggles to crack a victim's uncooperative family to uncover the truth behind his murder in book fifty-three of...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A new translation of this devastating tale of a young woman whose new life in Paris is tragically cut...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When one of his best inspectors is shot, Maigret decides to book himself into Mademoiselle Clement's well-kept Paris boarding...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'All right, I decided, if I couldn't win tonight, I'd win tomorrow. If I couldn't win tomorrow, I'd win...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An old acquaintance of Maigret's reappears on the streets of Paris and the inspector finds himself caught up in...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 During a much-needed holiday Maigret pulls a prank on colleague Janvier When Maigret's holiday plans go awry he and...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When a toy salesman confides in Maigret he quickly becomes caught up in a poisonous feud between husband and...