Fiction in translation
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Chess
£9.99Chess
On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He agrees, but only on one condition – that the stakes are suitably high. Soon, the chessboard is surrounded with onlookers – and one voice in the crowd will play a key role in the outcome of the match.
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Clara reads Proust
£9.99Clara reads Proust
Clara is a hairdresser at Cindy Coiffure, a sleepy French salon with an identity crisis. Her relationship is fizzling out. Her tanoholic boss Madame Habib worships Jacques Chirac and talks longingly of her days in Paris. And now Madame Lévy-Leroyer wants to go blonde. Clara can’t help but wonder if there’s more to life than this. Everything changes when a customer leaves behind the first volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. As Clara reads, she discovers a new world. And slowly but surely, she will work out who she wants to be.
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Darkenbloom
£20.00Darkenbloom
It’s 1989, and in a small town on the Austria-Hungary border, nobody talks about the war; the older residents pretend not to remember, and the younger ones are too busy making plans to leave. The walls are thin, the curtains twitch, there is a face at every window, and everyone knows what they are not supposed to say. But as thousands of East German refugees mass at the border, it seems that the past is knocking on Darkenbloom’s door. Still, though, nobody talks about the war. Until a mysterious visitor shows up asking questions. Until townspeople start receiving threatening letters and even disappearing. Until a body is found.
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Death and the penguin
£9.99Death and the penguin
Viktor is lonely, with only Misha, his penguin, for company. He is desperate to earn a living as a writer. He gets a break when the editor-in-chief of a major newspaper commissions him to write obituaries of Kiev’s VIP’s. But are his worries now over?
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Death of the red rider
£9.99Death of the red rider
On the eve of the Great Purge, a horseman and horse mysteriously collapse in the middle of a race in Leningrad. Weary Detective Zaitsev, still raw from his last brush with the Party, is dispatched to the Soviet state cavalry school in Novocherkassk, southern Russia, to investigate. As he witnesses the horror of the Holodomor, and the impact of Soviet collectivisation, he struggles to penetrate the murky, secretive world of the cavalry school.
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Doppler
£7.99Doppler
Doppler loses his father, leaves his family and decides to move into the woods. When he kills a she-elk for meat, he’s adopted by her calf with whom he gradually becomes friends. He names the little elk Bongo. This is a charming, absurd and subversive novel with serious undertones and criticism of our modern consumer society.
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Eliete
£10.99Eliete
Eliete is a normal woman in her early forties, born just after the Carnation Revolution. There is hardly anything extraordinary about her life, and yet she enthralls us with her desire to live, and to understand people and things. Her daughters are mostly on the internet and abroad; her husband is easier to meet on Facebook than at home. Who cares if Eliete, who feels strongly that her youth is gone, allows herself to experiment on Tinder? She would prefer to reignite her relationship with her husband, but he doesn’t seem interested. Eliete stays cool and doesn’t despair. Then suddenly she finds someone and something different – an inkling of love? Is Duarte a real-life version of one of the heroes in the teenage magazines of her childhood? And what on earth does it mean when her dementia-suffering grandmother says that Portugal’s former dictator is part of their family story?
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First love
£14.99First love
Upon being arrested for the gruesome murder of her father, all college student Kanna Hijiriyama tells the police is ‘it’s up to you to find the motive’. Amidst the media frenzy about the woman ‘too beautiful to be a killer’, clinical psychologist Yuki Makabe is asked by Kanna’s lawyer to counsel the young woman as her trial approaches. Yuki slowly uncovers the dark history behind the relationships in Kanna’s life – with her father, her mother, and her ‘first love’ – and discovers shocking inconsistencies in Kanna’s defense.
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Forbidden notebook
£9.99Forbidden notebook
Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse – she buys a shiny black notebook. She keeps a diary in secret, recording her worries about her children, fears her husband will find her up late writing and the constant churn of the domestic routine. With each entry she plunges deeper into her interior life, and the roles that have come to define her – as wife, as mother, as daughter – begin to break apart.
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Greek lessons
£9.99Greek lessons
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it’s the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages.
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Hard copy
£14.99Hard copy
This is a story of Girl Meets Printer. A customer service assistant spends her long workdays printing letters. Her one friend is the printer and, in the dark confines of her office, she begins to open up to him, talking about her fears, her past, her hopes and dreams. To her, it seems like a beautiful friendship is blossoming. To her boss, it seems like she’s losing her mind. Diagnosed with burnout and placed on leave, she faces severance and – worse – separation from her beloved printer. But she’s not about to give up on her only friend without a fight. And, it turns out, neither is he.
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
£9.99Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
The contemporary and the mythic collide in this hard-boiled tale of computers and conspiracy theories, unicorns and ancient lands.
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Harlequin butterfly
£8.99Harlequin butterfly
Successful entrepreneur A. A. Abrams is pursuing the enigmatic writer ‘Tomoyuki Tomoyuki’, who is never in one place for long. Very little is known about this wandering author, least of all his marvellous ability to write expertly in the tongue of wherever he happens to set foot. Abrams sinks endless resources into finding Tomoyuki, but this elusive writer seems to be both everywhere and nowhere, always taking off moments before being pinned down. Ingenious and dazzling, ‘Harlequin Butterfly’ unfolds one puzzle after another, taking us on a mind-bending journey into the imagination.
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How to love your daughter
£9.99How to love your daughter
What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from her home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the daughters of her only daughter, the grandchildren she’s never met. At the centre of this mesmerising story is the woman’s quest to understand how a relationship that began in bliss – a mother besotted with her only child – arrived at a point of such unfathomable distance. Weaving back and forth in time, she unravels memories and long-buried feelings, retracing the infinite acts of parental care, each so mundane and apparently benign, that together may have undermined what she most treasured.
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