Women in translation
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the South Korean sensation that has got the whole world talking. The life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional...
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Untold Night and Day
A seductive, disorienting story about multiple identities - unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seoul's summer - for readers of Han Kang's The Vegetarian and Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream
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Bright
Explores the quality of human resilience through the adventures of Kampol Changsamran, a young boy left behind by his parents after their break-up --
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Celestial Bodies
Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman's coming-of-age through the prism of one family's losses and loves.
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Convenience Store Woman
The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who...
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Dry Milk
Dry Milk is a work of fiction that gives a perspective on Antipodean culture unlike any other, told from the point of view of an immigrant alienated from his new home, both its New Zealand and Chinese communities.
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Territory of Light
Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The novel is full of light,...
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Aetherial Worlds
From one of contemporary Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than twenty years.
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Picnic in the Storm
These eleven surreal tales mark the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly inventive young writers
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The Braid
The huge international bestseller: three women forced by circumstances to rebel against their fate - a story spanning three different continents.
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
In this magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate reinvents a singular, polyphonic literary form, bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in...
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The Memory Police
The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, from one of Japan's greatest writers.
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The Unwomanly Face of War
'Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that...
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Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with...
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Sex and Lies
From the prize winning and bestselling author of Lullaby and Adele: a fascinating and witty collection of essays on the lives of women grappling with sexual politics in a deeply conservative culture
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Adele
Written in prose of elegant - but never bloodless - neutrality, Leila Slimani's second novel published in English explores not so much promiscuity as the modern-day pressures that drive Adele into this perilous loss of self. ...
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Lullaby
The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.
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Hour of the Star
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and...
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The Chandelier
Available in English for the first time, The Chandelieris one of Lispector's most radical books and a key part of what made her a Brazilian legend.
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Complete Stories
Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves.
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
An award-winning novel from one of Japan's most exciting literary voices: a short, simple and touching story of an unlikely love that blossoms across generations, and between seasons
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The Nakano Thrift Shop
A beguiling story of love found amid odds and ends, The Nakano Thrift Shop is a heart-warming and utterly charming novel from one of Japan's most celebrated contemporary novelists.
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Katalin Street
From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World...
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Abigail
A cult coming-of-age novel by the multi-award winning author of THE DOOR and KATALIN STREET.
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Let’s Hope for the Best
The international bestseller. A Scandinavian One Day, Let's Hope for the Best is a beautifully written, intimate and emotionally brave debut novel about a young mother facing the sudden death of her partner.
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The Vegetarian: A Novel
A trangressive, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul
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Tokyo Ueno Station
Akutagawa-award-winning author Yu Miri uses her outsider's perspective as a Zainichi (Korean-Japanese) writer to craft a novel of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply...
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Flights
A literary and imaginative book that explores subjects such as anatomy and psychology through narratives and reflections on travel and the body, and life and death.
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
A subversive, entertaining noir novel from the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
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Fever Dream
A deeply unsettling and disorientating debut novel about obsession, identity and motherhood. Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017
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Mouthful of Birds
A spellbinding collection of short stories from the Argentinian sensation Samanta Schweblin
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The Pine Islands
The Pine Islands is a serene, playful, profoundly moving story of the transformations we seek and the ones we find along the way.
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The Years
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books,...
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The Emissary
Yoko Tawada's new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness
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Apple and Knife
Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a female body in today's world.
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My Brilliant Friend
My Brilliant Friend is a ravishing, wonderfully written novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila begins in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. The two...
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