In Translation

Stories originally written in other languages, translated into English. Read these and understand the world a little bit better!

Updated May 28, 2024
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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
Tokarczuk, Olga
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE New York Times Readers Pick- 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 'A brilliant literary murder mystery.' Chicago Tribune A subversive, entertaining noir novel from one of Poland's most...
The last children of Tokyo
Tawada, Yōko
Paper Book
A dreamlike story of filial love and glimmering hope, set in a future where the old live almost-forever and children's lives are all too brief.
My brilliant friend
Ferrante, Elena
Paper Book
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy¿s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante¿s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and...
No Longer Human
Dazai, Osamu.
Paper Book
A completely new translation of Osamu Dazai's great masterpiece by award-winning translator Juliet Winters Carpenter. "A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist" --Damian Flanagan, The Japan Times No Longer Human<...
Norwegian wood
Murakami, Haruki
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, "a masterly novel" (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man's hopeless and heroic first love. ...
Pedro Páramo
Rulfo, Juan
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM'One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature' Susan SontagWith an Introduction by Gabriel García MárquezA new translation by Douglas J. WeatherfordFrom one of the most famous and influential Mexican writers, and the father of magical realism, this novel is a...
Season of migration to the north
Ṣāliḥ, al-Ṭayyib
Paper Book
SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH-An Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed...

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