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Fiction in translation

Paperback. A young Austrian woman, Christine, toils away in a provincial post office when, out of the blue, a telegram arrives inviting her to join an American aunt she's never known in a fashionable Swiss resort. She accepts and is swept up into a world of almost inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire. She feels herself utterly transformed. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 302.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Sort of Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780954221720
ISBN
9780954221720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.44

Paperback. A gripping new terrorist thriller from the best-selling Danish crime writer Translator(s): Barslund, Charlotte. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FHP; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784291549
ISBN
9781784291549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSC; FH; FK; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447298823
ISBN
9781447298823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. This newly translated selection of 36 of the best decadent tales from the French fin-de-siecle brings together some the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. Hilarious and horrifying, these extraordinary, corrosive little tales cast a cold eye on the modern world. Superbly translated and introduced by Stephen Romer. Editor(s): Romer, Stephen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; DQ; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199569274
ISBN
9780199569274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) is regarded as the most talented young writer of the Swedish post-war generation. By the 1940s, his fiction, plays, and journalism had catapulted him to the forefront of Swedish letters. This selection, containing a number of new translations of Dagerman's stories, is unified by the theme of the loss of innocence. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
David R. Godine Publisher Inc United States
Edition
First
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781567924466
ISBN
9781567924466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.49

Paperback. Translator(s): Major, Randall A. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Open Letter United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934824580
ISBN
9781934824580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.69

paperback. Translator(s): Donougher, Christine. Series: Dedalus Europe 2000 S. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dedalus Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873982396
ISBN
9781873982396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.41

paperback. Translator(s): Donougher, Christine. Series: Dedalus Europe 1992-95 S. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873982952
ISBN
9781873982952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.45

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909232815
ISBN
9781909232815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New Europe Books United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780982578124
ISBN
9780982578124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.56

Hardcover. A novel that follows the parallel lives of a transplanted Austrian woman, who has made Iran her home, and her grandson, Nuri, who desperately misses his mother but hides his longing behind a veneer of teenage bravado. Translator(s): Rahimieh, Nasrin. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815609339
ISBN
9780815609339
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.81

Paperback. A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction. Translator(s): Sheridan, Alan. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Johns Hopkins paperback ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801864407
ISBN
9780801864407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 30.03

Paperback. Available in English for the first time, About My Mother is an evocative portrait of a woman and a world left behind, exploring themes of love, loss, family and illness, as well as the reliability of memory and the subjugation of women. Translator(s): Schwartz, Ros; Norman, Lulu. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Telegram Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846592010
ISBN
9781846592010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.38

Paperback. A searing allegorical portrait of North African society, The Sacred Night uses Arabic fairy tales and surrealist elements to craft a stunning and disturbing vision of protest and rebellion against the strictures of hidebound traditions governing gender roles and sexuality. Translator(s): Sheridan, Alan. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801864414
ISBN
9780801864414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.67

Paperback. 'a sad and splendid book' New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141022826
ISBN
9780141022826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.81

Hardback. Translator(s): Nair, Anita. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 214 x 26. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857423917
ISBN
9780857423917
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.79

paperback. Maigret is asked to the windswept, rainy border town of Givet by a young woman desperate to clear her family of murder. But their well-kept shop, the sleepy community and its raging river all hide their own mysteries. Translator(s): Whiteside, Shaun. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141394770
ISBN
9780141394770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. Translator(s): Parmee, Douglas. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590173749
ISBN
9781590173749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.26

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318252
ISBN
9781846318252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.11

Paperback. .
Publisher
Orenda Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910633649
ISBN
9781910633649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.91

Hardcover. This is a study of decadence among the merchant families of Hamburg at the end of the 19th century. The novel is based on Mann's own experience as the son of a German merchant prince, but goes beyond his own experience in its sweep. Translator(s): Woods, John E. Num Pages: 732 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 135 x 41. Weight in Grams: 802.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151077
ISBN
9781857151077
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.02

Paperback. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 864 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Mandarin Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749386474
ISBN
9780749386474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.49

Hardcover. Translator(s): Woods, John E. Num Pages: 904 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 39. Weight in Grams: 804.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
854
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152890
ISBN
9781857152890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.06

Paperback. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749386429
ISBN
9780749386429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

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