Fiction in Translation

'Burial In The Clouds' is the tale of a young Japanese student's recruitment into the infamous kamikaze unit of the Second World War.

Even as a young man, Hamid Farsi is acclaimed as a master of the art of calligraphy. But, as time goes by, he sees that weaknesses in the Arabic language and its script limit its uses in the modern world. In a secret society, he works out schemes for radical reform, never guessing what risks he i...

Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties.

The Fourth William Wisting Mystery. Only three houses away from the policeman's home, a man has been sitting dead in front of his television set for four months. There are no indications that anything criminal has taken place. Viggo Hansen was a man nobody ever noticed, even though he lived in th...

Picking up where 'The Bridges of Constantine' ended, Mosteghanemi's second novel begins in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a high-ranking military man, a novelist decides to lose herself in her writing. But in an unexpected twist, what she writes begins to take on...

In an elegant apartment in a chilly Alpine town a cleaning lady makes a gruesome discovery: the body of her employer hanging from a chandelier in a dark room in an apparent suicide. Working the case is Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone, banished from his beloved Rome to snowy, small-town Aosta....

On a frosty January day in Bergen, Private Detective Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe has disappeared and hasn't been seen for days.

Follow the M.ư̐eracin family, in particular sisters Angelique and Joyeuse and their brother Fignol.ư̐e, in a poorer part of Port-au-Prince. Set in the course of a day, duty to the family and desire for a better life clash with a world of gunfire, racketeering and kidnapping, as the apocalyptic su...

35-year-old Laura Hindersten goes to the police to report that her father, a local professor, is missing. Police inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues can find no motive for the man's disappearance.

When Toru Narazaki's girlfriend, Ryoko Tachibana, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of the private detective he's hired to find her. Ryoko's past is shrouded in mystery, but the one concrete clue to her whereabouts is a previous address in the heart of Tokyo. She lived ...