Fiction in translation
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Naïve. Super
£9.99Naïve. Super
Unable to find any meaning in his life, the 25 year old narrator quits his MA course at university in a bid to discover a raison d’etre. He recounts a series of anecdotes, which culminate in a trip to stay with his brother in New York.
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No One Writes To the Colonel
£9.99No One Writes To the Colonel
Set in the decaying Colombian town of Macondo, the Colonel is scraping together the money for food and medicine. It is the Colonel’s rooster that gives him hope for a better future as it has become a symbol of defiance in the face of despair.
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Norwegian Wood
£9.99Norwegian Wood
Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love, Naoko, sinks deeper and deeper into mental despair, he is inexorably pushed to find new meanings and new love to survive.
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Notes From Underground
£9.99Notes From Underground
‘Notes from Underground’ is a study of a single character, ‘the real man of the Russian majority’, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky’s own deepest beliefs. ‘The Double’ is the nightmarish story of Mr Golyadkin, a man who is haunted or possessed by his own double.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
£9.99One Hundred Years of Solitude
In the book which put South America on the literary map, Márquez tells the haunting story of a community in which the political, the personal and the spiritual worlds intertwine.
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Paris
£9.99Paris
A sparkling celebration of Paris by some of the greatest writers in the world from the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Perfection
£12.99Perfection
With the stylistic mastery of Georges Perec and nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, Perfection, superbly translated by Sophie Hughes, is a brilliantly scathing sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, beautifully written, impossibly bleak.
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Perfume
£9.99Perfume
Born in sweaty, fetid 18th-century Paris, Grenouille is distinctive even in infancy. He has a sense of smell more powerful than any other human’s and no personal odour. Süskind develops this idea into a tale of murder controlled by a loathing of humanity.
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Russian Gothic
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Saara
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Second Best
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Set my heart on fire
£11.99Set my heart on fire
The first novel from Izumi Suzuki to be published in English: a candid, intimate exploration of passion, music and transgression
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Silence
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Sodom and Gomorrah
£9.99Sodom and Gomorrah
‘In Search of Lost Time’ is Proust’s masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century. In this fourth volume Proust takes up the themes of homosexual love and sexual jealousy.
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