Women in Translation

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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Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent; Jukuna Mona Chuguna; Pat Lowe; Eirlys Richards

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Category: Memoir & Biography

Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was a time of change. Desert people who had lived with little knowledge of European settlement were now moving onto cattle stations. T ...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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Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin

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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

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The Little Girl on the Ice Floe: A Memoir by Adélaïde Bon

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Category: Memoir & Biography

"Life itself is in these pages: in this candid, poetic style there is storytelling of real quality" - LEILA SLIMANI, author of Lullaby A powerful and personal account of the devastating consequences of childhood rape: a valuable voice for the #MeToo conversation. Adélaïde Bon grew up in a wealthy neighb ...Show more

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Crossed Lines by Marie Darrieussecq

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Category: Translated Fiction

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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Category: Translated Fiction

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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The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun; Lizzie Buehler (Translator)

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Category: Sci-Fi, Specualtive & Fantasy

A satirical Korean eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility. Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior colleague touches her inappropriately she ...Show more

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Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

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Category: Translated Fiction

Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself? Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together w ...Show more

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Flights by Olga Tokarczuk; Jennifer Croft (Translator)

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Category: Translated Fiction

A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." --Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." --Washington Post From the inco ...Show more

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Miracle on Cherry Hill by Sun-Mi Hwang

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Category: Translated Fiction

Celebrated bestselling author Sun-mi Hwang is back with a new novel, The Miracle on Cherry Hill, a heartwarming story of renewal and friendship. A terminally ill old man returns to his hometown, Cherry Village, to live out the remaining days of his life. Kang Dae-su grapples with his childhood demons a ...Show more

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My Devotion by Julia Kerninon

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Category: Women in Translation

Winner of the 2018 F n on Literary Prize A captivating and profound exploration of the mysterious connections between love, submission, and creation. Helen and Franck, both born into high-ranking diplomatic families, meet in Rome as high-school students and immediately detect in each other the wounded c ...Show more

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The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan

$29.99 AUD

Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent; Jukuna Mona Chuguna; Pat Lowe; Eirlys Richards

$24.99 AUD

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; Ginny Tapley Takemori

$19.99 AUD

Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin

$29.99 AUD

The Little Girl on the Ice Floe: A Memoir by Adélaïde Bon

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Crossed Lines by Marie Darrieussecq

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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

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The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun; Lizzie Buehler (Translator)

$27.99 AUD

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

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Flights by Olga Tokarczuk; Jennifer Croft (Translator)

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Miracle on Cherry Hill by Sun-Mi Hwang

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My Devotion by Julia Kerninon

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