Translated Fiction

Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

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"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale." - Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf —and fifty years after t ...Show more

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Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami; Sam Bett (Translator); David Boyd (Translator)

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So amazing it took my breath away' Haruki Murakami, international bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles Breasts and Eggs explores the inner conflicts of an adolescent girl who refuses to communicate with her mother except through writing. Through the story of these women, Kawakami paints a ...Show more

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The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

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A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find her ...Show more

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No Presents, Please: Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikani

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Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, Jayant Kaikini is one of India's most celebrated short-story writers. For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are ...Show more

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The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen

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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.

Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalization. ...Show more

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The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan

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From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy anddark histories set in Japan. University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or who ...Show more

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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Bela Shayevich (Translator); Margaret Atwood (Introduction by)

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A radical new translation of the dystopian classic that influenced George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, introduced by Margaret Atwood. One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs accordi ...Show more

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Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; Ginny Tapley Takemori

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The surprise hit of the summer and winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman is the incomparable story of Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident who has been working at the Hiiromachi "Smile Mart" for the past eighteen years. Keiko has never fit in, neither in ...Show more

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Reconciliation by Naoya Shiga; Ted Goossen (Translator)

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Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.

Reconciliation, published here for the first time in the English language, is an understated masterpiece of the Japanese 'I novel' tradition (a confessional literary form). Naoya Shiga's novella is a quietly devastating reflection on all kinds of reconciliation: from his own familial reunion, to the uni ...Show more

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new cus ...Show more

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Crossed Lines by Marie Darrieussecq

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When her mother offers Rose a Mediterranean cruise with her two children, she jumps at the chance to get away from her husband who drinks too much, and the renovations of their holiday house in the south. But one night the cruise ship comes upon a shipwrecked boat full of refugees, who are taken aboard. ...Show more

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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

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Inspired by a real event of the murder of a woman in rural Mexico, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with superstitions and violence--violence that poisons everything around. The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing in the murky waters of the irrigation canals discover her decom ...Show more

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Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

$27.99 AUD

Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami; Sam Bett (Translator); David Boyd (Translator)

$32.99 AUD

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

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No Presents, Please: Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikani