Valentino and Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
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Category: Translated Fiction
Valentino and Saggitarius are two of Natalia Ginzburg's most celebrated works, tales of love, hope, and delusion that are full of Ginzburg's characteristic mordant humor, keen psychological insight, and unflinching moral realism. Valentino is the spoiled child of doting parents, who have no doubt that t ...Show more
Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Category: Translated Fiction
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK * From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of a missing woman they're both desperate to find.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washingto ...Show more
Vernon Subutex 2 by Virginie Despentes
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Category: Translated Fiction
Rock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It's a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen hallucinating and feverish on a bench in the parc des Buttes Chau ...Show more
Violets by Kyung-Sook Shin
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Category: Translated Fiction
'Mesmerising, dreamlike and prescient in its sharpness and attentiveness to the dynamics between women and the male and female gaze' Sharlene Teo, author of PONTI 'Darkly beautiful, VIOLETS explores the toll of abandonment and relentless marginalisation' Frances Cha, author of IF I HAD YOUR FACE 'A subt ...Show more
Wake Me Up at Nine in the Morning by A Nicky; Yi Harman
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Category: Translated Fiction
An electrifying story about the explosive power of secrets, from a celebrated Chinese novelist Infamous local thug Hongyang is found dead by his lover after a night of debauched drinking. Hongyang is a man with plenty of enemies, any one of whom could be responsible for his death... Piecing togethe ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Bela Shayevich (Translator); Margaret Atwood (Introduction by)
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Category: Translated Fiction
A radical new translation of the dystopian classic that influenced George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, introduced by Margaret Atwood. 'The best single work of science fiction yet written' - URSULA K. LE GUINOne State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made al ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Yevgeny Zamyatin's page-turning science fiction adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel that became the basis for the tales of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, among so many others. Its messag ...Show more
Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada
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Category: Translated Fiction
Fish-breeding and weasel infestations punctuate this disarming, strange and strangely resonant story of one man's journey toward impending fatherhood, from an award-winning Japanese novelist. Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss f ...Show more
Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
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Category: Translated Fiction
A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce and fantasy. A woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in the depths of winter but named "Girl of Spring". A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a ...Show more
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
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Category: Translated Fiction
A Guardian and New Statesman book of the year, now in paperback - the fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness. When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. F ...Show more
When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley
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Category: Translated Fiction
'Takes on the friction between family bonds, cultural expectations, and personal desires in a way that feels both urgent and intensely real . . . For me the true heart of the book was Min, and his search for a sense of belonging that neither America nor Korea is quite able offer him. His story is truly ...Show more
When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley
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Category: Translated Fiction
'Phenomenal' Abi Daré 'Moving and suspenseful' Jess Walter 'Heart-stopping' Patricia Engel 'Wonderful' Jessie Burton Yu-jin is gifted. Yu-jin is loved. Yu-jin is flourishing. Yu-jin is dead. Min Ford is searching for his place in the world. The Los Angeles native moves to Seoul to connect with his K ...Show more