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Travel the world with these incredible books, masterfully translated into English.
Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur (trans.)
An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mother, this is a story of one woman's efforts to reconnect with her aging…
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (trans.)
An exquisitely beautiful new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.
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Yukio Mishima, Stephen Dodd (trans.)
The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. Already…
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Jente Posthuma, Sarah Timmer Harvey (trans.)
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them?
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Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (trans.)
Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers twelve devastating stories that spiral from real events. These cronicás—a genre unique to Latin…
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Viola Di Grado, Jamie Richards (trans.)
From one of Italy’s most electrifying voices, a powerful and original writer (Michael Cunningham), a fearless story of queer love and obsession set against the glassy surfaces of Shanghai.
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Vigdis Hjorth, Charlotte Barslund (trans.)
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controversial…
Stefan Hertmans, David McKay (trans.)
A fascinating historical novel based on the author's discovery that his home was once owned by a member of the SS
Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell (trans.)
A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the three-time International Booker Prize finalist
Seishu Hase, Alison Watts (trans.)
Perfect for fans of The Guest Cat and Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Elin Cullhed, Jennifer Hayashida (trans.)
A luminous portrayal of a brilliant mind who is at once at battle with herself and with the constraints that society has placed on her
Banana Yoshimoto, Asa Yoneda (trans.)
From the beloved, bestselling author of Kitchen - five effortlessly beautiful, strange and melancholy stories of heartbreak, hope and trying to see beauty in the everyday
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Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (trans.)
A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve.
Rin Usami, Asa Yoneda (trans.)
A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon - about obsession, pop culture and fandom. Winner of the 2021 Akutagawa Prize and 500,000 copies sold!
Nino Haratischvili, Charlotte Collins (trans.)
A modern-day Wuthering Heights from the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life.
Emi Yagi, David Boyd (trans.), Lucy North (trans.)
A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she's pregnant
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Daniele Mencarelli, Wendy Wheatley (trans.)
A heart-breaking and unforgettable novel that challenges our notion of normality and celebrates the salvific power of solidarity and vulnerability.
Lee Geum-yi, An Seon Jae (trans.)
Could you marry a man you’ve never met? Three Korean women in 1910 make a life-changing journey to Hawaii where they will marry, having seen only a photograph of their…
Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa (trans.), Ginny Tapley Takemori (trans.)
The Japanese and Times bestseller, now in gifty gold-foiled paperback with flaps, including irresistible inside illustrations
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Thomas Brussig, Jonathan Franzen & Jenny Watson (trans)
'A kind of miracle ... Not only made me laugh (again and again) but brought tears to my eyes' Jonathan Franzen 'One of the most brilliant satirical novels about life…
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Fredrik Backman, Neil Smith (trans.)
From the New York Times bestselling author of TikTok phenomenon Anxious People
Constance Debre, Holly James (trans.)
A provocative and fierce novel about motherhood, self-discovery and defiance
Veronique Olmi, Alison Anderson (trans.)
A family chronicle, and that of an era, from May 1968 to the 1980s: passionate, heartfelt and profound.
Lee Wei-Jing, Darryl Sterk (trans.)
For fans of The Vegetarian and Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, comes a modern-day fairy tale exploring the dark heart of the world of dance
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
The third novel from the author of the phenomenon Before the Coffee Gets Cold: tales from a little cafe in Hakodate, Cafe Donna Donna, where customers may travel back in…
Defne Suman, Betsy Guksel (trans.)
Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, revealing the psychological consequences of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
Laurent Mauvignier, Daniel Levin Becker (trans.)
Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party is a gripping tale of…
Cho Nam-Joo, Jamie Chang (trans.)
From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (trans.)
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award
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Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (trans.)
Radical, untamed, always unexpected: a thrilling, can't-look-away collection of stories from the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon Convenience Store Woman
Natsuko Imamura, Lucy North (trans.)
Clever, bewildering and darkly comic, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is the story of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined.
Kwon Yeo-sun, Janet Hong (trans.)
Focusing on the unsolved murder of teenage girl, this literary crime novel offers insights into gender, class and privilege in Seoul, and marks the English-language debut for award-winning Korean author…
Julia Holbe, Imogen Taylor (trans.)
A vivid tale of love and friendship, coincidence and fate, guilt and betrayal-and the memories of a summer that changed things forever.
Selim Ozdogan, Ayça Türkoglu (trans.), Katy Derbyshire (trans.)
A young girl navigates the joys and sorrows of rural life on the cusp of the modern world in mid-twentieth century Turkey.
Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins (trans.)
It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents…
Claudia Durastanti, Elizabeth Harris (trans.)
A bold, contemporary and urgent novel from a renowned Italian writer that examines silence in different forms, immigration, family and social class.
Hélène Gaudy, Stephanie Smee (trans.)
The surprise French bestseller - a brilliant contemporary twist on the historical novel.
Santiago Gamboa, Andrea Rosenberg (trans.)
An addictive and nuanced narrative about conflict-rife Colombia.
Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise
Gauz, Frank Wynne (trans.)
A bitingly satirical novel about undocumented security guards in Paris: for fans of Sam Selvon and George Orwell.
Maria Gainza, Thomas Bunstead (trans.)
For readers of Olivia Laing, Mariana Enriquez, Deborah Levy and Valeria Luiselli, a playfully brilliant novel about women’s influence, legacy, art and friendship
Jonathan Bazzi, Alice Whitmore (trans.)
A multi-award winning Italian debut, from a bold new voice in contemporary queer literature.
Bianca Pitzorno, Brigid Maher (trans.)
An immersive and vividly written historical novel for anyone who loved Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels or Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Michele Hutchison (trans.)
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era.
Gu Byeong-mo, Chi-Young Kim (trans.)
A whip-smart, taut and compelling novel about a 60-something female assassin navigating the vulnerabilities posed by her ageing body, and a meditation on loss and loneliness
Pajtim Statovci, David Hackston (trans.)
The internationally award-winning novel of passion, war, migration -- and a destructive forbidden attraction between two men.
Hanna Bervoets, Emma Rault (trans.)
For readers of Leila Slimani's Lullaby or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel.
Jokha Alharthi, Marilyn Booth (trans.)
An extraordinary novel from a ‘remarkable’ Booker Prize-winning author who has ‘constructed her own novelistic form’ (James Wood, The New Yorker) that follows one young Omani woman as she builds…
