Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secludi... more

In this epic family history, Xiaobin portrays women across five generations with Yu (feather) as the... more

It is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: "When Gregor Samsa woke one mornin... more

Yoko Ogawa s The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in... more

ive killers. One train journey. But who will survive? An original and propulsive thriller from a mas... more

THE WORLD S GREATEST WAR NOVEL Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the... more

Bringing together six of Turgenev’s best known stories in volume, this collection includes "First Lo... more

Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiy... more

Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet ... more

"Ms. Yoshimoto’s writing is lucid, earnest and disarming. ... [It] seizes hold of the reader’s sympa... more

"Baudolino, with its richly variegated haul of medieval treasures, remains compulsively readable." -... more

The authoritative translations of The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso--together in one vol... more

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zh... more

In this lively translation of Wang Chen-ho’s ribald satire, a Taiwanese village loses all perspectiv... more

the lantern light seems to have written a poem; they feel lonesome since i won’t read them. --"lante... more

This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a po... more

The three T ang dynasty poets translated here are among the greatest literary figures of China, or i... more

Translation of: Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore.... more

This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China’s leading dissidents, who was rele... more

This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China’s leading dissidents, who was rele... more

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness is a stark and lyrical work that follows a teen-aged girl who has just... more

"I can’t imagine reading this book without being challenged and instructed, amused, amazed and arous... more

From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of ... more

Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award Longlisted for the Believer Book Award Longlisted for... more

What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and t... more

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND ... more

This edition embraces Strindberg’s crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two fin... more

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 From Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa comes The B... more

Renowned as Spain s The Catcher in the Rye, this passionate coming-of-age novel follows a rebellious... more

"Spectacular...an absorbing and distinguished work...The House of the Spirits...is a unique achievem... more

There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time. -- George Steiner W... more

The lights of the Paris Opera House dim and a lovely singer holds the audience spellbound with her e... more

WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE A fierce and moving work and an unparalleled rende... more

Set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, the mesmerizing stories in After the Quake... more

"A fantastic book." --Steven Soderbergh When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris ... more

This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death, forms par... more

"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments o... more

New York Times Bestseller "Inspired. . . . Kundera’s most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book t... more

"Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather tha... more

A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addic... more

Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur’s earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic i... more

Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny. In his most personal novel to date, internationally bests... more

A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving sto... more

Since ancient times their name has been spoken only in hushed tones. Cloaked in anonymity, they guar... more

Dumas’s epic novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery--one of the most enduringly popular a... more

We were peering into this darkness, criss-crossed with voices, when the change took place: the only ... more

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic tale of one man’s pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with ... more

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown returns with an unforgetta... more

Hailed by Washington Post Book World as "the best [translation] currently available" when it was fir... more

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? Inferno, Purgatorio... more

Now an HBO series, the follow-up to My Brilliant Friend in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan... more

A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of war... more

*International Booker Prize finalist* "Brave and ingenious." --The New York Times "Gripping, darkly ... more

Join Captain Nemo and the Nautilus as they journey into the deep in Jules Verne s classic science fi... more

150th Anniversary Edition Praised by Tolstoy as an "incomparable artist", Chekov is considered one o... more

Resurrection, the last of Tolstoy’s major novels, tells the story of a nobleman’s attempt to redeem ... more

The first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Arc... more

At the center of Hugo’s classic novel are three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal ob... more

This new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with r... more

The Kamasutra is the oldest extant textbook of erotic love. But it is more than a book about sex. It... more