Frank Wynne | Translator, Writer, Mammal, Fool

Found in Translation

August 14, 2018 by adminfw

‘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 exists in isolation; all writers are part of the intertwining braid of literature. Found In Translation brings together one hundred glittering diamonds of world literature, celebrating not only the original texts themselves but also the art of translation. From Azerbijan to Uzbekistan, by way of China and Bengal, Suriname and […]

Categories: Anthology

Village of the Lost Girls by Agustín Martínez

August 11, 2018 by adminfw

A breath-taking missing persons thriller set under the menacing peaks of the Pyrenees Five years after their disappearance, the village of Monteperdido still mourns the loss of Ana and Lucia, two eleven-year-old friends who left school one afternoon and were never seen again. Now, Ana reappears unexpectedly inside a crashed car, wounded but alive. The case reopens and a race against time begins to discover who was behind the girls’ kidnapping. Most importantly, where is Lucia and is she still […]

Categories: Spanish, Thriller

Among the Lost by Emiliano Monge

August 11, 2018 by adminfw

Here is Mexico, its landscape, its violence, in a high voltage prose that has its roots in the best literature of its country: Rulfo, Fuentes, Sada. And for such a young writer Monge’s language and ideas are strikingly well wrought and mature. RAFAEL CHIRBES 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 brutalised, illegal migrants are cheated […]

Categories: Latin America, Spanish

Vernon Subutex Two

August 11, 2018 by adminfw

Rock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It’s a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen hallucinating and feverish on a bench in the parc des Buttes Chaumont. Aïcha wants to know the truth behind the death of her mother, Vodka Satana. And if she finds the bastards responsible, she wants to make them pay, […]

Categories: French, Vernon Subutex

Rosy & John by Pierre Lemaitre

December 7, 2017 by adminfw

Camille Verhoeven is back – but can he stop a dangerous killer intent on mass destruction? Jean Garnier lives on the fringes – a lonely nobody who has lost everything dear to him. His girlfriend was killed in an unexplained accident, his mother has just been sent to prison – he has even lost his job after the sudden death of his boss. In one last, desperate cry for help, Jean sets up seven lethal bombs, hidden all over Paris […]

Categories: Lemaitre, Thriller, Verhoeven Trilogy

The Impostor by Javier Cercas

April 8, 2017 by adminfw

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018 Who is Enric Marco? An august and much-revered old man from Barcelona, a veteran of the Spanish civil war, a fervent fighter against fascism, an impassioned campaigner for justice and freedom, a survivor of Flossenbürg, the Nazi concentration camp whose tireless work promoting historical memory in schools, at conferences, in countless interviews, in a speech to parliament that moved members of the Spanish congress to tears, earned him many honours and saw […]

Categories: Spanish

Three Days and A Life by Pierre Lemaitre

April 8, 2017 by adminfw

Three days at the edge of the new millennium, one moment of madness and one young life’s course altered forever. A dazzling new thriller from the master of noir. Antoine is twelve years old. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother in Beauval, a small, backwater town surrounded by forests, where everyone knows everyone’s business, and nothing much ever happens. But in the last days of 1999, a series of events unfolds, culminating in the shocking vanishing […]

Categories: Crime Fiction, Lemaitre

Get Well Soon by Marie-Sabine Roger

April 7, 2017 by adminfw

Saved from drowning in Paris’s River Seine, a sixty-something misanthrope finds himself stuck in a hospital bed for six weeks while he recovers, but if he was hoping for a peaceful convalescence he’s out of luck. As he looks back on his life, the good and the bad, he makes some unexpected new acquaintances, and just when he thought life had no more surprises in store for him, he finds out he was wrong…. As an unlikely cast of characters […]

Categories: French, Humour

Vernon Subutex I

January 8, 2017 by adminfw

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous record shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000’s, with the arrival of the internet and the decline in CDs and vinyl, his shop is struggling. When it closes, Subutex is out on a limb, with no idea what to do next. Nothing sticks. Before long, his savings are gone, his employment benefit is cut, and when the […]

Categories: French

The French Art of War by Alexis Jenni

January 8, 2017 by adminfw

“I watched the ballet of bombs over Baghdad, those fantastical fireworks with their greenish trails, and in doing so learned that modern warfare is conducted in the glow of computer screens; I saw the faint, grey outlines of buildings shudder into focus only to explode, destroyed from within with everyone inside…” 1991. A young man holed up in his apartment is watching the ‘shock and awe’ of Desert Storm, forging sick notes to avoid work, mesmerised by the rolling news, […]

Categories: French

The Blue Palace of the Belgian Engineers by Fulgencio Argüelles

August 14, 2016 by adminfw

“A magnificent and powerful novel.” —Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País In September 1927, Nalo starts working as a trainee for the gardener at the blue palace of the Belgian engineers. A time of revolutions and war, his years at the palace will bring his awakening to life. With a careful and crafted prose, Fulgencio Argüelles displays a varied array of characters who share friendship, love, and hardship.

Categories: Spanish

Soft in the Head

March 25, 2016 by adminfw

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 to the bottom of the list on the town war memorial. So how could Germain possibly understand what a casual encounter on a park bench with eighty-five year old Margueritte could mean? In this touchingly comic tale of an unusual friendship, that first conversation […]

Categories: French, Humour

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