Fiction in Translation

  • Roman Stories

    Roman Stories

    €16.95

    From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margiNS.

    A man recalls a summer party that awakens an alternative version of himself. A couple haunted by a tragic loss return to seek consolation.

    An outsider family is pushed out of the block in which they hoped to settle. A set of steps in a Roman neighbourhood connects the daily lives of the city’s myriad inhabitants. This is an evocative fresco of Rome, the most alluring character of all: contradictory, in constant transformation and a home to those who know they can’t fully belong but choose it anyway.

    Rich with Lahiri’s signature gifts, Roman Stories is a masterful work from one of the finest writers of our time.

    Translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz

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  • The Wolves of Eternity

    The Wolves of Eternity

    €19.95

    It is 1986 and Syvert Loyning has returned from military service to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One night, he dreams of his late father, and the next morning can’t shake him from his mind. Searching through his father’s belongings for clues and connections, Syvert finds a cache of letters that leads to the Soviet Union, and to a half-sister, Alevtina, he didn’t know he had.

    Several decades later, in present-day Russia, he will meet her – just as a mysterious new star appears in the sky…

    From internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, The Wolves of Eternity is the new book in a visionary series that begins with The Morning Star.

    Expansive, searching and deeply human, it questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves – and the limits of what we can understand about life itself.

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