BrainCan - fiction in translation

a regicide by alain robbe grillet review debut...

The French avant-garde writer and film-maker’s experimental 1949 book is disorienting,beautiful...

mend the living by maylis de kerangal review - the...

The journey of a transplant organ explores the metaphysical zone between life and death,in an...

bret easton ellis and the other dogs by lina...

This is a wintry,clever and fierce addition to the canon of modern feminist literatureRecent years...

diary of a body by daniel pennac - what it means...

A life is vividly captured through a record of physical details – a sneeze,a taste, a tumbleDaniel...

schoolgirls chronicle of a massacre foretold

Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel about life at a Rwandan girls’ school before the genocide is...

ink in the blood by stephanie hochet review -...

A rootless womanising artist gets a tattoo that starts to slowly disappear in this mordantly witty...

marie by madeleine bourdouxhe - a wonderful...

This existential classic from 1940,focusing on a woman’s state of intellect after she has a secret...

savages: the wedding by sabri louatah review -...

Tension mounts as the French prepare to elect their first Arab president…This novel arrives in...

tram 83 by fiston mwanza mujila review - a comic...

Set in a bar in a Congolese mining town,this hip, award-winning debut takes a while to warm up but...

leila slimani on her shocking bestseller, lullaby:...

Her murderous nanny thriller gripped France,winning its top literary prize and the attention of...

panty by sangeeta bandyopadhyay review - two...

A strange,ethereal novel in which a woman’s life changes when she finds a stranger’s discarded...

superabundance by heinz helle review - debut novel...

Fragmentary prose is welded by a hypnotic voice“I am standing at a crossing. On the street,people...

blood brothers by ernst haffner review - in...

Banned by the Nazis,this exasperated and thrilling portrait of Berlin’s seething young underclass...

the interpreter by diego marani review - a novel...

Part shaggy dog record,part dusky comedy and above all an investigation into the way humans...

death by water by kenzaburo oe review - japan s...

Oe’s literary alter ego guides the reader through a dense forest of stories and competing...

the empress and the cake review - a mitteleuropean...

An old Viennese woman with a strange obsession and her sinister housekeeper ruin a young woman’s...

multiple choice by alejandro zambra review -...

Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra’s amusing linguistic acrobatics tease the brain but fail to dig...

the same old story by ivan goncharov review - the...

He’s best known for Oblomov,but Goncharov’s first novel, featuring a foolish would-be poet and...

to die in spring by ralf rothmann review - a...

The final weeks of the second world war are hauntingly portrayed in a German novel that bears...

nightmare in berlin by hans fallada review - a...

A hallucinatory atmosphere and punchy style sweep the reader into a murky,chaotic worldHans...

diary of a short sighted adolescent by mircea...

It’s hard to believe the author was the same age as his diarist when he wrote this...

the man i became by peter verhelst review -...

A subversive and apocalyptic novella from an award-winning Flemish author in which talking apes...

why is china s greatest novel virtually unknown in...

Dream of the Red Chamber is a masterpiece that has been called the book of the millennium’ and it...

a cup of rage by raduan nassar review - from lust...

If this country were grown-up enough to absorb a literary Good Sex award,this explosively erotic...

the age of reinvention review - don t believe the...

Karine Tuil’s promising tale of identity theft set against the legal world of modern York is let...

sofi oksanen we know about british colonialism....

On the eve of her latest novel’s publication in English,the Finnish publishing sensation talks...

trencherman by eben venter review - south africa...

The white population has fled,government has all but vanished … First published in Afrikaans a...

how amazon came to dominate fiction in translation

At a time when the translation market is shrinking,the internet giant’s publishing arm,...

all for nothing by walter kempowski review -...

In his final novel,the German author bears witness to the collective experience of war with...

bride and groom review - odd couples in dagestan

Political tensions and culture clashes drive Alisa Ganievas bold novel,set amid preparations for two...

the happy marriage by tahar ben jelloun review -...

An accomplished,provocative novel approximately the strained relationship between a Moroccan husband...

man tiger by eka kurniawan review - the animal...

A supernatural tale of murder and desire fascinatingly subverts the crime genre,in a new novel from...

waking lions by ayelet gundar goshen review a...

A hit-and-race accident and a blackmailing widow spark a triangle of moral dilemmas in the highly...

only wilful disregard can hide the need to publish...

As a publisher used to the more enlightened scene in Korea,I’m shocked at the gender bias in the...

the underground by hamid ismailov review - a...

The subterranean grandeur of the metro ignites an orphan’s short life,recalled from beyond the...

only wilful blindness can hide the need to publish...