Fiction in translation

‘I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.’ 23-year-old Frits – office worker, daydreamer, teller of inapp...

A teenager gripped by obsession seeks to free endangered birds in this study of solitude and toxic masculinity set in modern-day Tokyo. Isolated in his Tokyo apartment, 17-year-old Haruo spends all...

In the opening volume of Proust’s great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann’s jeal...