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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In Translation

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

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Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Paper Book
Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now divorced, seeks a new mate who can support her in high style. She finds...
Dissolving classroom
It , Junji
Paper Book
A pair of twisted siblings-Yuuma, a young man obsessed with the devil, and Chizumi, the worst little sister in recorded history-cause all sorts of tragic and terrifying things to happen wherever they go. These scary short stories will shock you with a literal interpretation of the ills that plague...
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 "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing...
My brilliant friend
Ferrante, Elena
Paper Book
#1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times-bestselling "enduring masterpiece" about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic). Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the...
No longer human
Dazai, Osamu
Paper Book
Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of...
Pedro Páramo
Rulfo, Juan.
Paper Book
A masterpiece of the surreal, this stunning novel from Mexico depicts a man's strange quest for his heritage. Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Páramo, whom they fled from years ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala. Comala is a town alive with whispers and shadows--a...
Red sorghum : a novel of China
Mo, Yan
Paper Book
Season of migration to the North
Ṣāliḥ, al-Ṭayyib.
Paper Book
An arresting work by a major Arab novelist.
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