literature in translation
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Set in winter 1945, All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski writes about the mundane details of a minor German aristocratic family.
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Reprinted in 2025 by New York Review of Books, Sun City by Tove Jansson overflows with whimsical heart as it tells the story of a retirement home in 1970s Florida.
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Chess Story by Stefan Zweig is a pitch-perfect novella that uses the royal game to investigate humanity and its most curious impulses.
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A shorter novel by Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter is a character study on the conflict between motherhood and adulthood that refuses any easy answers.
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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor tells the story of a poor, rural village in Mexico wracked by violence after the death of The Witch.
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Published by New Directions, The Wax Child by Olga Ravn is a powerful metaphor and critique of patriarchy that’s also a crackling story about witches.
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We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara is a fever dream of a book that tells the story of Antonio de Erauso from multiple perspectives.
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Strange Houses by Uketsu is a unnerving horror novel filled with creepy details, generational trauma, and cultish behavior.
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The crackling dialogue and unorthodox character development in Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai provides a remarkable read.
