Автор: Frank Wynne

Winner of the 2012 Premio Valle Translation Prize Shortlisted for the 2011 INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE In the forecourt of a petrol station outside of Buenos Aires, a father says goodbye to his …

It was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I was doing badly, you see. Everything was going wrong. I just awaited the end. But then I met Victorien Salagnon, a vete …

The international bestseller: a cry of witness to the 20th century – the unforgettable memoir of 70 years of contemporary and personal history from the great French filmmaker, journalist and intellec …

"[A] masterly investigation of evil, resistance and guilt, billed as the first Arab novel to confront the Holocaust" from the Nobel Prize-nominated author (Publishers Weekly).Banned in the …

When J. and Elena swap the parties and culture of the city for a simpler life on a remote Caribbean island, they expect to find an Eden to call their own. But in amongst the mango groves they discove …

A joyful novel full of humanity from the author of Soft in the Head After falling into the Seine and winding up in hospital, ageing widower Jeanne-Pierre begins writing his memoirs. But if he was hop …

'Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we're both utterly despicable individuals.' (Houellebecq to BHL) In 2008, two of the most celebr …

Animalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by the omnipres …

A powerful, unsettling portrait of ordinary family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s debut novel The Fallen is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned an …

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018**WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX?An urban legend.A fall from grace.The mirror who reflects us all.Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infa …

**Sunday Times Best Books of 2018**"Funny, irreverent and scathing" Guardian"Virginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot" ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of You Too …

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018A TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION – FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCOBut who is Enric Marco? A veteran of the Spanish Civil War …

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018Antoine is twelve years old. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother in Beauval, a small, backwater town surrounded by forests, where eve …

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With his son Pablo’s kidnapping still unsolved, and his marriage ruined by the torment of hope, the brutal murder of a single mother in her own home is an almost welcome diversion for Commandant Vila …

2008. George ‘The Wall’ Crozat has racked up thirty-eight victories (twenty-three of them by knock-out), eight defeats, and an empty bank account. Finally ready to hang up the gloves and focus on his …

EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT HER IS WRONG In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Pr vost – beautiful, resour …

MEET COMMANDANT CAMILLE VERHOEVEN OF THE PARIS POLICE WITH NOTHING ELSE TO LOSEAnne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jeweller’s on the C …

THE NOVELIST KILLS BY THE BOOK For Commandant Camille Verh ven life is beautiful. He is happily married and soon to become a father.HE’S ALWAYS ONE CHAPTER AHEADBut his blissful existence is puncture …

Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Ir ne and Camille.October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the amb …

Sophie is haunted by the things she can’t remember – and visions from the past she will never forget.One morning, she wakes to find that the little boy in her care is dead. She has no memory of what …

____________________’This is a remarkable novel … and a remarkably brave one. It is compelling and gripping. The horrors of man’s inhumanity to man are presented unblinkingly’ – Scotsman’Demotic cl …

The first novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with The Night Watch and Ring Roads forms a trilogy of the Occupation’A Marcel Proust of our time’ Peter Englund, permanent …

‘There’s seven ways to kill a cat. But when it comes down to it, there’s only two ways. In a civilised fashion or like a fucking savage’.In Buenos Aires, the economy has collapsed and people are prot …

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of …

In the desolate wastelands between the sierra and the jungle, under an all-seeing, unforgiving sun, a single day unfolds as relentlessly as those that have gone before. People are trafficked and brut …

Frank Wynne’s remarkable book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret superstar of the art world. During van Meeg …

______________________’Vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling … The pace leaves you breathless’ – Kate Saunders, The Times’Elegant and seductive’ – Guardian’Spellbinding … Acosta does for prose wh …

What does the man who has everything―fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby―want for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his …

‘Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence’ George Steiner. It is impossible to overstate the influence world literatures have had in defining each other. No culture e …

The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind. “ …

“A thoughtful, philosophically rich story that probes a still-open wound.” —Kirkus Reviews “Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor.” —The New York Times Book Review One night, a …

‘I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don’t want …

An O, The Oprah Magazine Summer Reading Pick. A “brilliantly observed, heartrending” novel of a Buenos Aires boy in exile (Financial Times).   In 1976 Buenos Aires, a ten-year-old bo …

LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to shar …

Goodfellas meets White Fang. By the BAFTA-winning screenwriter of Amores Perros."An epic tale" Sunday Times Crime Club"A fast-moving, intriguing and virile novel" Irish Examiner&q …

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3, 500 psychoanalysts at the École de la Cause Freudienne’s annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front of the profession for …

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‘A beautiful book about the best minds of a generation and the devastation of war – an outrageous voyage from the past that speaks eloquently to our present’ Deborah Levy March 1941. A converted carg …

This “lyrically descriptive [novel] traces the terrible evolution of rural ways of life into cruelty and abuse via the history of one unhappy family.” —Kirkus Reviews 1898: In the s …

"Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year" David Mills, The Sunday Times"A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen King The second …

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Teeming with life and compulsively readable,  the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Álvarez, one of the most exciting young wri …

Ahmadou Kourouma’s remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora – storyteller and king’s fool. Over the course of five nights he tells the life story of Koyaga, President and Dictator o …

The story of a French journalist who infiltrated the country’s police force, revealing a culture of racism and violence in which officers act with impunity.What happens behind the walls of a police s …

From one of Mexico’s most important writers, a fictionalised memoir about three men who are driven to escape the confines of their traditional lives and roles.In 1958, Carlos Monge Mc Key sneaks out …

"One of those rare, transformative novels" KARIM MISKE"Funny and poignant" TIFFANY TSAO, author of The Majesties Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the sec …

Prix Maison de la Presse Award Finalist 2019 Marion Mesny and Anthony Rauch, otherwise known as ‘The Pear’, work at the heart of the Sexual Assault Unit in Paris. Renowned for their bravery and intel …

And anyway, who cares? All that matters is that the guy is dead, right? A dark and thrilling ride about the most unlikely of killers, perfect for Tarantino fans, by the award-winning and bestselling …

In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that has stifled [him] since [he] was born, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring nove …

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human s …

In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a series of sparkling chapters on the ‘big questions’. In doing so he reveals the …

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LIE WITH MEIt is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. For Vincent, the sixteen-year-old son of a prestigious f …

Adri n Ormache, a high-flying lawyer with a beautiful wife and two daughters, leads a privileged and glamorous life in one of Lima s wealthiest neighbourhoods. But when his mother dies, he discovers …

‘A darkly sumptuous tale of wicked spectacle, wild injustice and the insuppressible strength of women’ EMMA STONEX, author of THE LAMPLIGHTERS’An essential story of women resisting the unjust exertio …

"Tremendous and enjoyable" – La Libre Belgique"A great success" – La Croix April, 1940. Louise Belmont runs naked down the boulevard du Montparnasse. To understand the traumatic s …

ONE OF THE TIMES’ FAVOURITE NOVELS OF 2023The first epic novel in THE GLORIOUS YEARS series from the two times winner of the prestigious Prix-Goncourt’You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooke …

flic(French noun, slang)cop; police officer Flic(noun)The gripping and groundbreaking work of French comics journalism.What happens behind the walls of a police station? What kind of living does a co …

Winner of the 2023 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize •  Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize  • One of The Walrus’ Best Fall Books of 2023 A funny, fast-paced, and poignant t …

To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to cap …

From the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an exciting comic masterwork rooted in the French countryside.  WINNER OF THE 2024 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATI …

Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see.In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labour was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a …

After several years of absence, a man reappears in the life of a woman and their young son. Intent on being a family again, he drives them to Les Roches, a dilapidated house in the mountains, where t …

BY THE AUTHOR OF STANDING HEAVY – SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in Cote d’Ivoir …

From the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia (Sunday Times), winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Best Translated Book Award, a blazing new …

"The book of the moment" Sunday Times"Highly entertaining . . . subtle and complex" Guardian"Despentes at her very best" New European"Full of emotional suspense&quo …

A mischievous and genre-spanning story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almod var’Almod var s mind seems to be reporting from another world to illuminate, clarify, and challenge our own …

A Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Fiction in Translation International Booker-nominated satirist Gau Z’ returns with a panoramic journey into the colonization of the African interior. Mourning the …

His mother called him a worthless halfwit while his fellow drunks at the local bar ensure he’s the butt of all their jokes. He spends his days whittling wood, counting pigeons and adding his own name …

In September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to businessman Amado Dam, intended for Argentina’s first Ethnographic Theme Park. Unexpected among t …

The international bestseller that has captivated Europe __________________________________ In an Italian monastery, a celebrated sculptor lays on his death bed. For decades, Mimo has lived among the …