Women in translation

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Sisters in Arms

Shida Bazyar, Ruth Martin (trans.)

An explosive feminist and anti-racist novel about the importance of friendship.

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Astragal

Albertine Sarrazin, Patsy Southgate (trans.)

At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her last 99 cents on a novel that…

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I Went to See My Father

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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Can’t I Go Instead

Lee Geum-yi, An Seon Jae (trans.)

Two women's lives and identities are intertwined - through World War II and the Korean War - revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the…

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Mild Vertigo

Mieko Kanai, Polly Barton (trans.)

With shades of Clarice Lispector, Mavis Gallant and Lucy Ellman, this late-period novel by the esteemed novelist, essayist, and film and literary critic Mieko Kanai is a disconcerting and astute…

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The Postcard

Anne Berest, Tina Kover (trans.)

A moving novel based on the true story of a family's endurance and pain, and a heartfelt exploration of Jewish identity in a secular society

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Juja

Nino Haratischvili, Ruth Martin (trans.)

The debut novel by international bestseller Nino Haratischvili, author of The Eighth Life, published for the first time in English.

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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan (trans.)

A heart-warming story about finding comfort and acceptance in your life and the healing power of books.

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Hit Parade of Tears

Izumi Suzuki, Sam Bett (trans.), David Boyd (trans.), Helen O'Horan (trans.), Daniel Joseph (trans.)

A new collection from the cult author of Terminal Boredom

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Untold Night and Day

Bae Suah, Deborah Smith (trans.)

Unfolding over a night and a day in the sweltering summer heat, their world’s order gives way to chaos, the edges of reality start to fray, and the past intrudes…

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Greek Lessons

Han Kang, Deborah Smith (trans.) & Emily Yae Won (trans)

A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian

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Pink Slime

Fernanda Trías, Heather Cleary (trans.)

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolome-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize.

A port city is in the grips…

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Honeybees and Distant Thunder

Riku Onda, Philip Gabriel (trans.)

The Night Circus meets Lonely Castle in the Mirror in this multi-award-winning Japanese bestseller, available finally in an English translation by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami

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The Fire

Daniela Krien, Jamie Bulloch (trans.)

In her perceptive and affecting new novel, Daniela Krien explores a marriage where everything hangs in the balance.

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Watch Us Dance

Leila Slimani, Sam Taylor (trans.)

As she stands at the window, the spring sunshine streaming in, Mathilde reflects on the opportunities before her: it’s April 1968 and Morocco is changing. Looking out at her garden…

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What I’d Rather Not Think About

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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This is Not Miami

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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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

Cho Nam-Joo & Jamie Chang (trans.)

From the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. Eight women. Eight stories. One reality.

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Another Person

Kang Hwagil, Clare Richards (trans.)

Told in alternative viewpoints, in sharp, intelligent and multi-layered prose, this powerful and necessary novel confronts issues of sexism and abuse on university campuses.

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Dead-End Memories

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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Love Me Tender

Constance Debre, Holly James (trans.)

A provocative and fierce novel about motherhood, self-discovery and defiance

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My Soul Twin

Nino Haratischvili, Charlotte Collins (trans.)

A modern-day Wuthering Heights from the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life.

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Blue Hunger

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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The Picture Bride

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…

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Daughters Beyond Command

Veronique Olmi, Alison Anderson (trans.)

A family chronicle, and that of an era, from May 1968 to the 1980s: passionate, heartfelt and profound.

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Seven Empty Houses

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

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The Mad Women’s Ball

Victoria Mas, Frank Wynne (trans.)

For fans of The Doll Factory and The Familiars, a gemlike novel set in a Parisian asylum in 1885 about two women - one deemed mad, the other sane…

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The Pachinko Parlour

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…

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Our Share of Night

Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (trans.)

A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve.

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The Woman in the Purple Skirt

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.

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Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell (trans.)

An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life and travels back to Pakistan with her…

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Saha

Cho Nam-Joo, Jamie Chang (trans.)

From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

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The Old Woman With the Knife

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

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We Had To Remove This Post

Hanna Bervoets, Emma Rault (trans.)

For readers of Leila Slimani's Lullaby or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel.

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Whereabouts

Jhumpa Lahiri, Jhumpa Lahiri (trans.)

The woman moves through the city, her city, on her own.

She moves along its bright pavements; she passes over its bridges, through its shops and pools and bars. She…

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Heaven

Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett (trans.), David Boyd (trans.)

From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a teenage boy subjected to relentless bullying.

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When I Sing, Mountains Dance

Irene Sola, Mara Faye Lethem (trans.)

A ferociously imaginative, polyphonic debut: amid the rugged beauty of the Pyrenees, the mountains' inhabitants - both human and non-human - bear witness to the tragedies that befall one family

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At the Breakfast Table

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.

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The Seamstress of Sardinia

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.

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Euphoria

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

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Idol, Burning

Rin Usami, Asa Yoneda (trans.)

A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon - about obsession, pop culture and fandom

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Kitchen

Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (trans.)

A beautiful new edition to celebrate the thirty year anniversary of the original English publication of Kitchen.

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Boulder

Eva Baltasar, Julia Sanchez (trans.)

The grim and lovely follow-up to Eva Baltasar’s acclaimed Permafrost explores the darker sides of love and motherhood for two women determined to live as they like.

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When I Sing, Mountains Dance

Irene Sola, Mara Faye Lethem (trans.)

A prize-winning, spell-binding, polyphonic debut of love, wildness and tragedy that marks the generations - for readers of Sarah Baume and Max Porter.

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Scattered All Over the Earth

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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Is Mother Dead

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…

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Life Ceremony

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.

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Cousins

Aurora Venturini, Kit Maude (trans.)

The literary masterpiece of a major discovery in international literature - never before translated into English.

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Women in translation

Sisters in Arms

Astragal

I Went to See My Father

Can’t I Go Instead

Mild Vertigo

The Postcard

Juja

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Hit Parade of Tears

Untold Night and Day

Greek Lessons

Pink Slime

Honeybees and Distant Thunder

The Fire

Watch Us Dance

What I’d Rather Not Think About

This is Not Miami

Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

Another Person

Dead-End Memories

Love Me Tender

My Soul Twin

Blue Hunger

The Picture Bride

Daughters Beyond Command

Seven Empty Houses

The Mad Women’s Ball

The Pachinko Parlour

Our Share of Night

The Woman in the Purple Skirt

Tomb of Sand

Saha

The Old Woman With the Knife

We Had To Remove This Post

Whereabouts

Heaven

When I Sing, Mountains Dance

At the Breakfast Table

The Seamstress of Sardinia

Euphoria

Idol, Burning

Kitchen

Boulder

When I Sing, Mountains Dance

Scattered All Over the Earth

Is Mother Dead

Life Ceremony

Cousins