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Fiction in translation

Paperback. Centuries before Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji" was already acknowledged as a classic of Japanese literature and the past century has seen this book gain worldwide acceptance. This edition contains the complete translation of all six books of "The Tale of Genji". Num Pages: 1168 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 204 x 45. Weight in Grams: 942.
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9784805310816
ISBN
9784805310816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.39

Hardback. Translator(s): Fenkl, Heinz Insu. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231178648
ISBN
9780231178648
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.86

Hardcover. Published in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel "Umrao Jaan Ada" created a sensation when it came out. But few know that a month after the author wrote "Umrao Jaan Ada", he penned a sly novella entitled "Junun-e-Intezar". This title features both the Urdu original and an English translation of this novella. Translator(s): Shandilya, Krupa; Shahid, Taimoor. Series: Zubaan Books. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Zubaan India
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9789381017708
ISBN
9789381017708
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.94

Paperback. A darkly gripping new mystery in the internationally bestselling Malin Fors series. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 40. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444776348
ISBN
9781444776348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. A darkly gripping new mystery in the internationally bestselling Malin Fors series. Translator(s): Smith, Neil. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444776386
ISBN
9781444776386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. A traveler shuts himself up in his hotel room, with no-one but room service to talk to; a teenager stalks her long-lost father; a journalist interviews a great poet with a dark past; a woman pursues a doomed liaison with an anonymous man she meets once a month at the casino; and a bar lady locked in with the regulars at night.. Translator(s): Gramich, Eluned. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910409633
ISBN
9781910409633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.36

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253008237
ISBN
9780253008237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.79

Paperback. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Darf Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781850772903
ISBN
9781850772903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.54

Paperback. A title in which, the author personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, it breathes life into Chinese history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Series: What Was Communism?. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 176 x 8. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Edition
Rep Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857421609
ISBN
9780857421609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.64

Paperback. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413771193
ISBN
9780413771193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.46

Paperback. Features a benign old monk who listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama - in which nearly everyone dies - unfurls. In this title, the author also treats us to a cornucopia of cooked animal flesh - ostrich, camel, donkey, dog, as well as the more common varieties. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422217
ISBN
9780857422217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.10

Paperback. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413775313
ISBN
9780413775313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.46

Pamphlet. Translator(s): Barton, Polly. Series: Keshiki. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 4. .
Publisher
UEA Publishing Project
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911343073
ISBN
9781911343073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.14

Hardcover. Abady becomes aware of the plight of a group of Romanian mountain peasants and champions their cause, while Gyeroffy dissipates his resources at the gaming tables, mirroring the decline of the Austro-Hungarian empire itself. Series: Transylvania Trilogy. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 204 x 38. Weight in Grams: 722.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
624
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593531
ISBN
9781841593531
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.89

Hardcover. The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of Hungarian Transylvania, later to fall into the hands of first the Nazis and then the Communists, his love for Adrienne, married to an unpleasant and dangerous lunatic, and a Proustian society helplessly bent on its own destruction. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 205 x 54. Weight in Grams: 854.
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593548
ISBN
9781841593548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.97

Paperback. Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. But now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and letters now defy time and place, life and death.. Translator(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780871080
ISBN
9781780871080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. .
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781941920039
ISBN
9781941920039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.62

Paperback. In A Hero of Our Time, the first great Russian novel, a young officer, passionate and world-weary, is posted to the Caucasus and becomes involved in a series of adventures. A dazzlingly original work of fiction, the novel is newly translated together with Pushkin's travel narrative, A Journey to Arzrum, with introduction and notes. Translator(s): Slater, Nicolas Pasternak. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199652686
ISBN
9780199652686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who have just lost their mother, find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family's saga, the author recreates the experience of battles, and also the long pauses that come before and after. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300151459
ISBN
9780300151459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.81

Paperback. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099540946
ISBN
9780099540946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.07

Paperback. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia in 1916-17. This book show how his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of the Revolution. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
9780099529569
ISBN
9780099529569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.86

Paperback. In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural elite to prison cells and body bags. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140455465
ISBN
9780140455465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. Features a wealthy Moscow surgeon Filip Preobrazhensky who implants the pituitary gland and testicles of a drunken petty criminal into the body of a stray dog. As the dog slowly transforms into a man, and man into a slovenly, lecherous government official, the doctor's life descends into chaos. Editor(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140455151
ISBN
9780140455151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin's rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire of the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 200 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493712
ISBN
9781847493712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.01

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