A Book in Translation

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Updated March 3, 2025
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Celestial bodies : a novel
Alharthi, Jokha
Paper Book
What you are looking for is in the library : a novel
Aoyama, Michiko
Paper Book
THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL The Top Ten Times bestseller A Time Magazine Book of the Year 'An undeniable page-turner' New York Times 'I ADORED this uplifting, hopeful novel ' Daily Mail 'It...
The dangers of smoking in bed : stories
Enriquez, Mariana
Paper Book
A masterpiece of contemporary Gothic from the internationally acclaimed author of Things We Lost in the Fire.
Things we lost in the fire : stories
Enriquez, Mariana
Paper Book
Dark and haunting stories of contemporary Argentina.
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...
A horse walks into a bar
Grossman, David
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice,...
The Summer Book
Jansson, Tove
Paper Book
A profoundly life affirming story about a small girl and her grandmother who are kindred spirits.
The Kamogawa food detectives
Kashiwai, Hisashi
Paper Book
The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time?Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a...
Death Is Hard Work: A Novel
Khalifa, Khaled
Paper Book
"Searing . . . Khalifa is a soulful and perfectly unsentimental writer . . . The most amazing thing about this book is that it managed to exist, that it came to us out of the fire with its pages intact." Hisham Matar, Guardian Death Is Hard Work is a tale of...
Whereabouts
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Paper Book
'If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb' SUNDAY TIMES'A rare kind of literary celebrity' VOGUE'A hypnotic disappearing act' OBSERVERThe new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker...
The Full Moon Coffee Shop : a novel
Mochizuki, Mai
Paper Book
HUMANS ARE STARS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT, MIZUKI. EVERY ONE OF THEM. Your NEXT BIG READ if you love BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD NO.1 BESTSELLER TRANSLATED INTO 20 LANGUAGES 'Lose yourself in a world of talking cats with this cult...
Convenience store woman
Murata, Sayaka
Paper Book
The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who fits in to the rigidity of its work culture only too well<...
The night of Baba Yaga
O?tani, Akira
Paper Book
A no-holds-barred queer gangland thriller from Japanese debut Akira Otani for fans of Chain Gang All Stars, Bullet Train and Tender is the Flesh
Frankenstein in Baghdad : a novel
Sa?da?wi?, Ah?mad
Paper Book
  WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES GOLDEN TENTACLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
Fever dream : a novel
Schweblin, Samanta
Paper Book
  SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Tightly wound and full of dread, Fever Dream is a chilling tale of maternal love and environmental catastrophe, from an Argentinian literary star   'The book I wish I had written' Lisa Taddeo, author of...
Mouthful of birds : stories
Schweblin, Samanta
Paper Book
  A SPELLBINDINGLY CREEPY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, FROM AN ARGENTINIAN LITERARY STAR 'The Grimm brothers and Franz Kafka pay a visit to Argentina in Samanta Schweblin's darkly humorous tales.' J...
We'll prescribe you a cat
Syou, Ishida
Paper Book
THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT! Contains five exquisite line-drawings. For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES, discover the award-winning heartwarming sensation. Readers adore it: 'The most wonderful book I've ever read' ***** 'A terrific...
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
Tokarczuk, Olga
Ebook
Territory of light
Tsushima, YÅ«ko
Paper Book
'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation...

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