Fiction in translation
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic God's Rainbow
Book SynopsisThis is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes we neither directly commit nor have the power to prevent. Set in the Czechoslovakian borderland shortly after WWII amid the sometimes violent expulsion of the region's German population, Jaroslav Durych's poetic, deeply symbolic novel is a literary touchstone for coming to terms with the Czech Republic's difficult and taboo past of state-sanctioned violence. A leading Catholic intellectual of the early twentieth century, Durych became a literary and political throwback to the prewar Czechoslovak Republic and faced censorship under the Stalinist regime of the 1950s. As such, he was a man not unfamiliar with the ramifications of a changing society in which the minority becomes the rule-making political authority, only to end up condemned as criminals. Though Durych finished writing God's Rainbow in 1955, he could not have hoped to see it published in his lifetime. Released in a still-censored form in 1969, God's Rainbow is available here in full for the first time in English.
£15.68
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic The Pied Piper
Book SynopsisFor The Pied Piper, Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-catcher. Dyk uses the tale as a loose frame for his story of a mysterious wanderer, outcast, and would-be revolutionary--a dreamer typical of fin de siecle Czech literature who serves Dyk as a timely expression of the conflict between the petty concerns of bourgeois nineteenth-century society and the coming artistic generation. Impeccably rendered into English by Mark Corner, The Pied Piper retains the beautiful style of Dyk's original Czech. The inspiration for several theater and film adaptations, including a noted animated work from critically acclaimed director Jiri Barta, Dyk's classical novella is given new life by Corner's translation, proving that the piper is open to new interpretations still.
£11.32
Twisted Spoon Press Boys and Murderers: Collected Short Fiction
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Twisted Spoon Press I Burn Paris
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Twisted Spoon Press The New Moscow Philosophy
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£9.50
Twisted Spoon Press Glorious Nemesis
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£13.77
Twisted Spoon Press The Legs of Izolda Morgan: Selected Writings
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£13.50
Twisted Spoon Press The Diary of Mr. Pinke
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£13.30
Twisted Spoon Press Marketa Lazarova
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£13.50
Twisted Spoon Press Miruna: A Tale
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£9.50
Twisted Spoon Press Aberrant
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£10.45
Twisted Spoon Press The Tender Barbarian: Pedagogic Texts
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£15.30
Twisted Spoon Press The Illuminated Burrow: A Sanatorium Journal
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£14.40
Twisted Spoon Press House of the Nine Devils: Selected Bohemian Tales
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Twisted Spoon Press Blaugast
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Seagull Books Pvt.Ltd Mother of 1084
Book SynopsisMahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures. Mother of 1084 is one of her most widely read works, written during the height of the Naxalite agitation - a militant communist uprising that was brutally repressed by the Indian government and led to the widespread murder of young rebels across Bengal. This novel focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to understand his decision to be a Naxalite. Breast Stories is a collection of short fiction about the breast as more than a symbol of beauty, eroticism, or motherhood, but as a harsh ndictment of an exploitative social system and a weapon of resistance. At a time when violence towards women in India has escalated exponentially, Devi exposes the inherently vicious systems in Indian society. Old Women tells the touching, poignant tales of two timeworn women - Dulali, a widow since childhood, who is now an old woman preoccupied only with day-to-day survival, and Andi, who loses her eyesight due to a combination of poverty, societal indifference, and government apathy. All three volumes, written in Devi's hard-hitting yet sensitive prose, are significant milestones in India's feminist literary landscape.
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Seagull Books Pvt.Ltd Old Women
Book SynopsisMahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures. Mother of 1084 is one of her most widely read works, written during the height of the Naxalite agitation - a militant communist uprising that was brutally repressed by the Indian government and led to the widespread murder of young rebels across Bengal. This novel focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to understand his decision to be a Naxalite. Breast Stories is a collection of short fiction about the breast as more than a symbol of beauty, eroticism, or motherhood, but as a harsh indictment of an exploitative social system and a weapon of resistance. At a time when violence towards women in India has escalated exponentially, Devi exposes the inherently vicious systems in Indian society. Old Women tells the touching, poignant tales of two timeworn women - Dulali, a widow since childhood, who is now an old woman preoccupied only with day-to-day survival, and Andi, who loses her eyesight due to a combination of poverty, societal indifference, and government apathy. All three volumes, written in Devi's hard-hitting yet sensitive prose, are significant milestones in India's feminist literary landscape.
£11.50
Seagull Books Pvt.Ltd Bitter Soil
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Aleph Book Company THE GREATEST HINDI STORIES EVER TOLD
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd Dancers in the Dark: In the darkness of her skin,
Book SynopsisTheir journey to retrieve the money brings together a mysterious ally, an exotic festival, a divine intervention and a con artist changing their destinies in ways no one could have predicted.
£13.49
DESPUES DE SAFO
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NIAS Press Jin Ping Mei – A Wild Horse in Chinese
Book SynopsisThe late 16th-century novel Jin Ping Mei has been described as a landmark in the development of the narrative art form, there being no earlier work of prose fiction of equal sophistication in world literature. However, it is also seen as something of a wild horse, its graphically explicit depiction of sexuality earning it great notoriety. Although Jin Ping Mei was banned soon after its appearance, today the novel is considered one of the six classics of Chinese literature. It is thus no surprise that Jin Ping Mei has caught the attention of scholars working in many different fields, places and periods. Unfortunately, the interdisciplinary and transnational exchange has been limited here, in part because of distance and language barriers. The present volume aims to bridge this gap, bringing together the best quality research on Jin Ping Mei by both established and emerging scholars. Not only will it showcase research on Jin Ping Mei but also it will function as a reader, helping future generations to understand and appreciate this important work.
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HarperCollins India From One Birth to Another: Stories from Jaina
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Electric Steel: Parallel Stories from Italy,
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Simplicity and Purity: Poets, Farmers and Parsis
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd The Eighteenth Parallel
Book SynopsisAs he negotiates friendships with Tamils like himself, Muslims, Anglo-Indians and girls, and struggles to make sense of peaceful Hyderabadâs violent accession to the Indian Union, the horrors wreaked by the Nizamâs Razakars, the communal riots, and World War II.
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Orient BlackSwan The Collected Short Stories of Kazi Nazrul Islam
Book Synopsishis unique volume presents all 20 of Kazi Nazrul Islam's short stories for the first time in English translation. Featuring rich imagery, evocative landscapes, references to music, classical poetry, folktales and more, these stories invite the reader to re-evaluate the rebel poet' as an empathetic humanitarian. The volume is a transnational, collaborative labour of love bringing together stellar editors and translators from Bangladesh and India. The stories are accompanied by a timeline of Nazrul's life and a critical introduction that not only provides foundational contexts for the stories
£27.08
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd The Scar
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Kalindi Brahmankanya: A Novel
Book SynopsisIt is the early 1900s in Mumbai. Educated and financially independent, Kalindi Dagge dreams of living in a casteless and equitable society as a single mothera life far removed from the one she had in the stifling world she left behind. A world where she was the daughter of a brahmin lawyer, Appasaheb Dagge, and the casteless Shanta; and the granddaughter of another brahmin and his schoolteacher mistress who rejected the idea of marriage. A world in which she was an outcast; the daughter of a man who rejected his caste but not his caste pride. A world where she had reclaimed her grandmother's legacy and chosen, in defiance of family and society, to live as the mistress of Shivsharanappa, a Lingayat tobacco merchant, who later abandoned her and left her on the verge of suicide.
£16.62
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited The Treasure of The Khasi Hills
Book SynopsisFor the first time, this iconic story appears in English in this lucid translation that will entice a whole new generation of readers into Hemenbabuâs world.
£11.99
HarperCollins India Life And Political Reality: Two Novellas
Book SynopsisBorn in 1953 in Old Dhaka, Shahidul Zahir died young and published only six works in his lifetime -- but these are some of the most unique and powerful works of fiction to have come out of the subcontinent. With his own particular blend of surrealism, folklore, oral storytelling traditions, magic realism.
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HarperCollins India The Book of BIhari Literature
Book SynopsisThe Book of Bihari Literature is a vibrant collection of writings-poems, essays, stories-that have flowed from the pens of the great poets, thinkers and writers across millennia, who were born or lived in what is modern-day Bihar. This book makes accessible to English-speaking readers the bounty of Bihari literature, and brings to the fore works in neglected languages by ancient philosophers and celebrated contemporary authors alike.
£20.42
HarperCollins India An Order from the Sky and Other Stories
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£15.19
HarperCollins India Assassin
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£20.89
HarperCollins India Sahela Re: A Novel
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£17.09
HarperCollins India The Pig Flip
Book SynopsisBrilliantly narrated and illustrated by Joshy Benedict, The Pig Flip - translated from the Malayalam by K.K. Muralidharan - is a surreal and narcotic tale of addiction and comeuppance that will linger hauntingly in the mind long after you've read it.
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HarperCollins India Maria, Just Maria
Book SynopsisSandhya Mary's novel masterfully translated by the award-winning Jayasree Kalathil - is an insightful and humorous take on ideas like normal-abnormal, natural-human, love-hate, that define contemporary society, and the exuberant and moving story of a woman trying to find her place in this world.
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HarperCollins India Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times
Book SynopsisUrdu: The Best Stories of Our Times, edited and translated by Rakhshanda Jalil, presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the current literary landscape by bringing together some of the finest contemporary writers of fiction. In these pages, we find stories about the land and its people in wide-ranging tones: compassionate, sarcastic, whimsical, witty, tragic, but always thrilling and enchanting in equal measure. The stories highlight the numerous histories, identities and themes that have been celebrated or challenged in the last few decades.
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HarperCollins India A Game Of Fire
Book SynopsisIn post-Partition Amritsar, Satnam Singh helps Hindu and Sikh refugees at Guru Ram Das Serai. He witnesses escalating communal violence as friends turn to revenge, aiming to cleanse the city of Muslims.
£14.00
Westland Publications Limited Into the Forest
Book SynopsisINTO THE FOREST, AN EXQUISITELY WRITTEN, HARD-TO-DEFINE NOVEL, IS AS MUCH A MEDITATION ON THE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP TO NON-HUMAN LIFE AS IT IS A LOOK AT THE PUSH AND PULL OF GENDER, CLASS AND RACE IN OUR SOCIETIES. Why do you want to know about what happened, bhai?' The older man mentions a paper in the UK that may be interested in what happened to Nabi. Its politics are impeccable. His story will resonate there. Nabi looks unconvinced. People must know our stories,' says the reporter. Why? What good does it do?' There are three disappearances; they could all be crimes', but only one of them ends up in murder. Germany, with its unique fractures, is the perfect setting.
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HarperCollins India Mudritha
Book SynopsisJissa Jose's Mudritha explores women's lives: their desires, ambitions, love, anger, and attempts to resist and rise above the encroachment over their bodies and souls.
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HarperCollins India Do Not Ask the River Her Name
Book SynopsisAnd through them, she also tells of the indomitable river of love and humanity that flows across the boundaries drawn by nationhood and religion.
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HarperCollins India On the Banks of the Mayyazhi
Book SynopsisThis is a classic work of fiction, encompassing history and folklore and beautifully written; it belongs on the bookshelves of all literature lovers.
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Zubaan The Saga of Satisar
Book SynopsisCombining myth, legend, geography, history, and politics, The Saga of Satisar is the panoramic history of the Kashmiri Pandits. In it, award-winning Hindi writer Chandrakanta unspools a novel that spans two centuries, illustrating how Kashmiri lives have been transformed and the multicultural tradition disappeared in the face of military oppression. Finding as its culprits militancy, state mismanagement, and the dirty play of politics, The Saga of Satisar is a passionate and heartfelt cry for a treasured land and way of life that is quickly disappearing. Chandrakanta writes beautifully of her beloved Kashmir, remarking that even as the colorful memories of her youth mingle with the fragrance of the cool breezes, these realities are fading, leaving her only a world of memories to dwell in.
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Zubaan The Madness of Waiting
Book SynopsisPublished in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel "Umrao Jaan Ada" created a sensation when it came out, with its candid fictionalized account of the life of Umrao Jaan, based on a renowned Lucknow courtesan and poetess of the same name. Considered by many to be the first Urdu novel, it remains highly popular today and has been the basis of three films and a Pakistani television serial. But despite Ruswa's notoriety, few know that a month after he wrote "Umrao Jaan Ada", he penned a sly novella entitled "Junun-e-Intezar", in which "Umrao" avenges herself on her creator, Ruswa, by narrating the story of his life. Blurring the lines between truth and fiction, narrator and character, this clever narrative strategy gives the courtesan a voice. While "Umrao Jaan Ada" is still celebrated, "Junun-e-Intezar" has been completely forgotten - until now. The "Madness of Waiting" redresses this imbalance, featuring both the Urdu original and a superb English translation. The book also includes a critical introduction that rethinks "Umrao Jaan Ada" and the Urdu literary milieu of the late-nineteenth-century Lucknow courtesan.
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Niyogi Books Day and Dastan: Two Novellas
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Niyogi Books Contemporary Urdu Short Stories from Kolkata
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Niyogi Books Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay: Tales of Early Magic
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