Fiction in Translation

It's a hot summer in Oslo when a young woman is found murdered in her flat. One finger has been cut off, & beneath her eyelid is a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five pointed star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with Tom Waaler.

Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play in the streets. When a naked body is found at the top of the mountain, Inspector Sejer is determined to uncover the truth.

Desperate to gain some experience, 24-year-old Annika Bengtzon has taken on a work placement at Stockholm's biggest tabloid newspaper. She receives a call informing her that the body of a young woman has been found.

A 12-year-old boy runs into the police station claiming to have seen Halldis Horn's brutally murdered corpse. Errki Johrma, an escaped psychiatric patient, was sighted at the scene disappearing into the woods.

Sicily, 1880. When a stranger arrives in Vigata, the town's inhabitants immediately become unsettled. It seems the young man, Fofo, is the son of a local peasant legendary for his home-grown medicines; a man who was murdered many years before. Fofo opens his own pharmacy in Vigata and his remedie...

This is the richly evocative tale of Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, who in 1860 is the last of his aristocratic line, watching and waiting in the mingled splendour, squalor & heat of his Sicilian acres as Garibaldi's landing heralds the start of a new order.

This collection of crystalline, bittersweet stories confirms Josep Pla as a master of irony in his portrayal of ordinary lives across Europe between the end of the Great War and the collapse of Wall Street. Like Joseph Roth, the Catalonian author observes and records the pain and resilience of th...

These stories combine an unsettled, probing, contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity. Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chan...

In 1940s' Shanghai, Jiazhi's mission is to seduce an employee of the occupying government and lead him to the assassin's bullet. But she begins to wonder if she can coldly take Mr Yi to his death. A tale of espionage and love accompanied by four further short stories. In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful...

This novel 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 a touching meditation on the nature of friendship.