Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin; Megan McDowell
$20.99 AUD
$29.99 (30% off)
Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Trans Megan McDowell
"Superb" -- Vogue"What makes Schweblin so startling as a writer, however, what makes her rare and important, is that she is impelled not by mere talent or ambition but by vision." -- New York TimesA powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star.The brilliant stori ...Show more
My Devotion by Julia Kerninon
$27.99 AUD
Category: Women in Translation
Winner of the 2018 F n on Literary Prize A captivating and profound exploration of the mysterious connections between love, submission, and creation. Helen and Franck, both born into high-ranking diplomatic families, meet in Rome as high-school students and immediately detect in each other the wounded ...Show more
One Day I'll Tell You Everything by Emmanuelle Pagano; Penny Hueston (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Adèle and her younger brother Axel grew up in a hamlet in the spectacular mountains of the Ardèche region in south-east France. Ten years later, they have returned to their childhood home and Adèle now drives the school bus. Adèle is desperate to keep the secret of her past--of when she was a boy. No on ...Show more
Out: (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Natsuo Kirino
$22.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser.
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young ...Show more
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
$19.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery. Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life ...Show more
People from My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami
$24.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction. Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it w ...Show more
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
$27.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
Everyone's eating human meat. Would you? A vivid, shocking dystopian novel from an Argentinian rising star.
The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara; Fiona J. Mackintosh; Iona Macintyre; Gabriela Cabezon Camara
$29.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
China Iron reimagines Argentina's macho national origin myth from a female perspective, in a joyful, hallucinatory journey across the pampas of 19th century.
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector's third novel--the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals--is in English at last. Lucr cia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors--soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus--are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, whic ...Show more
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Women in Translation
Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookshop he inherited from his beloved grandfather. Then, a talking cat named Tiger appears with an unusual request. The cat needs Rintaro’s help to save books that have been imprisoned, destroyed and unloved. Their mission sen ...Show more
The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun; Lizzie Buehler (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A satirical Korean eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility. Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior colleague touches her inappropriately she ...Show more
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld; Michele Hutchison (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2020. The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief. I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of ex ...Show more