×


 x 

Shopping cart

Fiction in translation

Results 141 - 160 of 951

Fiction in translation

Paperback. Provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous "Chin P'ing Mei", an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. Translator(s): Roy, David Tod. Series: Princeton Library of Asian Translations. Num Pages: 520 pages, 40 illus. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1048.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
714
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691016146
ISBN
9780691016146
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. A humorous novel about human limits and how they are abolished in the world of dreams. Translator(s): Almani, Saleh. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9789992195208
ISBN
9789992195208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.02

Paperback. A glorious evocation of childhood in the early sixties. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don; Shaw, Don. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
276
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857386380
ISBN
9780857386380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Michon's exquisite short narratives transport us to the heart of the Middle Ages as witnesses to the double-edged power of belief Translator(s): Jefferson, Ann. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300179064
ISBN
9780300179064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.69

Paperback. Depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140455625
ISBN
9780140455625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Translator(s): Krailsheimer, A. J. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555864
ISBN
9780199555864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.45

Paperback. Editor(s): Lipson, Lesley. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555000
ISBN
9780199555000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Book two of the Commissario Balistreri trilogy traces his youth in North Africa, and his first exposure to the horrors that grow from human hardship. Translator(s): Thompson, N. S. Series: Commissario Balistreri Trilogy. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 45. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857389367
ISBN
9780857389367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. Spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in which his father has died, Kurt doesn't want to know. Translator(s): Thompson, Laurie. Series: Kurt Wallander. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 199 x 29. Weight in Grams: 308.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099571728
ISBN
9780099571728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Translator(s): Agee, Joel. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782273394
ISBN
9781782273394
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. A woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. But he is already on his final warning and has little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor when it becomes apparent that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Series: Harry Hole. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FH; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 375.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784702298
ISBN
9781784702298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Hardcover. .
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276865
ISBN
9781908276865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Provides an annotated translation of the famous "Chin P'ing Mei", an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. Num Pages: 776 pages, 40 line illus. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1118.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
800
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691150185
ISBN
9780691150185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.55

Paperback. Translator(s): Noweira, Amira. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 200 x 21. Weight in Grams: 260. (English Edn). 320 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FV; FYT. Dimension: 130 x 200 x 21. Weight: 262. Translator(s): Noweira, Amira.
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789992194720
ISBN
9789992194720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.68

Paperback. Translator(s): Landry, Judith. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184. 168 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 199 x 128 x 15. Weight: 182. Translator(s): Landry, Judith.
Publisher
Dedalus Limited
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907650567
ISBN
9781907650567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.44

Paperback. Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure in a world of limitless and waterless wastes, and a parable of the struggle to survive in the most dangerous landscape of all: human society. Translator(s): Colla, Elliott. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Arabia Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
171
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906697020
ISBN
9781906697020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. This new translation includes Kafka's two published collections, A Country Doctor and A Hunger Artist with other, uncollected stories, aphorisms, and parables that have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous, the stories meditate on art and artists and the human experience. Includes an introduction and notes. Translator(s): Crick, Joyce. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 16. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199600922
ISBN
9780199600922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback.
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
153
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909232044
ISBN
9781909232044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.44

Paperback. Stefan's Zweig's posthumously-published Journey into the Past (Widerstand der Wirklichkeit) is a beautiful meditation on the effect of time on passion - one of the most intense and compelling works from a master of the novella form. Published by Pushkin Press with a cover designed by David Pearson and Clare Skeats. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908968364
ISBN
9781908968364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force.. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; FA; FW; FYT; HRHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 20. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784702052
ISBN
9781784702052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!