Fiction in translation

Written in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, '2666' was greeted across Europe and Latin America as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing even his previous work in imagination, beauty, and scope.

A serial killer is on the loose in Hamburg, targeting dancers from The Acapulco, a club in the city's red-light district, taking their scalps as gruesome trophies and replacing them with plastic wigs. Chastity Riley is the state prosecutor responsible for crimes in the district, and she's working...

Published simultaneously in London and Paris in 1816, 'Adolphe' is the story of a tragic love affair between its narrator and his lover Ellenore, two characters locked into a fatal dance of self-destruction. In what is one of the earliest examples of autofiction, from a period when all creative e...