Fiction in translation

'Child Wonder' is a powerful and unsentimental portrait of childhood, full of light and warmth. Through the eyes of a child, Roy Jacobsen has captured the complexities of his characters through their actions, and has written a prodigiously uplifting novel that shines with humanity.

In seven dream-like episodes, Ma Jian - the banned Chinese writer hailed as 'China's Solzhenitsyn' - charts the psychological disintegration of a government leader in provincial China who is haunted by nightmares of his violent past. A biting dystopian satire, what Ma Jian reveals is a nation bli...

The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War Two, its doctors, ...

When Hammoudi, a young surgeon based in Paris, returns to Syria to renew his passport, he only expects to stay there a few days. But the authorities refuse to let him leave and Hammoudi finds himself caught up in the fight against the regime. Meanwhile, budding actress Amal has also joined the pr...

Jósef Loewe enters the world as a lump of clay - carried in a hatbox by his Jewish father Leo, a fugitive in WWII Germany. Taking refuge in a small-town guesthouse, Leo discovers a kindred spirit in the young woman who nurses him back to health and together they shape the clay into a baby. But e...

Keiko has never really fitted in. At school and university people find her odd and her family worries she'll never be normal. To appease them, Keiko takes a job at a newly opened convenience store. Here, she finds peace and purpose in the simple, daily tasks and routine interactions. She is, she ...

The island has run out of oxygen. The island is swollen. The island is rotten. The island has taken my beloved from me. The island is a Greenlander. It's the fault of the Greenlander. In Nuuk, Greenland. Fia breaks up with her long-term boyfriend and falls for Sara. Sara is in love with Ivik who ...

18-years-old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a school teacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while findin...

On an expedition to the Kalahari Desert, Hans Begler, a young entomologist, finds a small boy whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders. Begler takes the traumatised child home to Sweden and plans to civilise him. But Daniel cannot slip into an alien culture, and a new life in the cold a...

On an expedition to the Kalahari Desert, Hans Begler, a young entomologist, finds a small boy whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders. Begler takes the traumatised child home to Sweden and plans to civilise him. But Daniel cannot slip into an alien culture, and a new life in the cold a...