Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
$29.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deepl ...Show more
Like Water For Chocolate: No.1 international bestseller by Laura Esquivel
$19.95 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
The bestselling phenomenon and inspiration for the award-winning film. Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance and bittersweet wit. This classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama ...Show more
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted master of the spine-tingling tale One of Huffington Post India's '50 Books to Look Forward to in 2020' They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of ...Show more
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura and Philip Gabriel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
A #1 Japanese bestseller and winner of the influential Japan booksellers' award, for fans of BEFORE COFFEE GETS COLDFor fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and magic are weaved together in sparse language that belies a flooring emotional punch.'Strange and beautiful. Imagine the offspring of ...Show more
Magma by Thora Hjörleifsdóttir
$19.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
‘Profane, funny, and uncomfortably honest'– Brandon Taylor Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love. He is older and beautiful, a Derrida-quoting intellectual. He is also a serial cheater, gaslighter and narcissist. Lilja will do anything to hold on to him. And so she accepts his deceptions and endures his sex ...Show more
Mala's Cat by Mala Kacenberg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
A remarkable holocaust memoir about an unlikely friendship between a young girl and a stray cat and survival against the odds. Alone in a forest with only a cat for company, this is the deeply moving true story of one little girl's remarkable survival in the shadow of the Holocaust. Twelve-year-old Mala ...Show more
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
$19.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Malina invites the reader on a linguistic journey, into a world that stretches the very limits of language with Wittgensteinian zeal and Joycean inventiveness, where Ingeborg Bachmann ventriloquizes--and in the process demolishes--Proust, Musil, and Balzac, and yet filters everything through her own utt ...Show more
Marshland by Otohiko Kaga
$55.61 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Japanese Literature Ser.
Otohiko Kaga’s Marshland is an epic novel on a Tolstoyan scale, running from the pre-World War II period to the turbulence of 1960s Japan. At forty-nine, Atsuo Yukimori is a humble auto mechanic living an almost penitentially quiet life in Tokyo, where his coworkers know something of his military record ...Show more
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-Yong (translated by by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
Virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story - an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.Centred on a family of rail workers, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of workers and common folk, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing throu ...Show more
Men in My Situation: By the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
A tender portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life going to pieces from the bestselling author. 'Vivid and moving... It would be hard to find a better writer than Petterson' Irish Times In 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight, divorced and paralysed by grief. More than a year has passed since the tragic a ...Show more
Michael Kohlhaas: Newly translated by Michael Hofmann by Heinrich Von Kleist
$19.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz KafkaMICHAEL KOHLHAAS HAS BEEN WRONGED. HE WILL HAVE JUSTICE.Based on the real life of an ordinary horse-dealer cheated by a government official, Michael Kohlhaas is the darkly comical and magnificen ...Show more
Migrantik by Norman Wilwayco
$32.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
A reluctant Filipino migrant takes a savage journey of life in Australia, working two jobs and surviving on a diet of weed, booze and little elseTony is one of millions of Filipinos scattered across the globe, working to send money back to his family. But unlike other migrants, he's no pushover at work ...Show more