suggest me your favourite fiction in translation. i am looking to expand in my translated reading this year, but sometimes titles can be hard to find. any genre is welcome 🙏🤗
Ghachar ghochar ( I listened to the audiobook, it’s nice)
Translated works of Tagore
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the running flame by fang fang
after dark by haruki murakami
permafrost by eva baltasar
terminal boredom:stories by izumi suzuki
malina by ingeborg bachmann
the lost estate by henri alain fournier
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Here are some books translated into English from other languages, at least the verions I read, if I correctly understand the question.
* *Human Acts* and *The Vegetarian*, Han Kang. From Korean. (Note, she does not shy away from depicting, in detail, the horrors we will commit on one another.)
* *Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,* Olga Tokarczuk. From Polish. (I didn’t like *The Empusium* as much).
* *When We Cease to Understand the World*, Benjamin Labatut, From Spanish.
* *One Hundred Years of Solitude*, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (Spanish).
* *Anna Karenina,* Leo Tolstoy. Russian.
* *The Stranger*, Albert Camus. French (It’s not a favorite so much as one that’s oddly stuck with me)
SparklingGrape21 on
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
emily9065 on
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Japan). La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (first book by a woman from the Equatorial Guinea to be translated into English!). The Time of Cherries by Montserrat Roig (Catalonia–I don’t think it’s out in the US yet but there is a British edition which is what I read). I am also trying to read more in translation so I’ll be creeping on the other comments on this thread!
MelnikSuzuki on
*All You Need is Kill* by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
*A Magical Girl Retires* by Seolyeon Park
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The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
sjplep on
[Monkey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(novel)) by Wu Ch’eng-en – the Arthur Waley translation (Penguin Classics). It’s an abridged version of ‘Journey to the West’, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China. An epic with elements of ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ meets ‘The Wizard of Oz’, if you like.
Patient_Geologist835 on
The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch & Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (both polish)
lascriptori on
I haven’t read it yet, but I imagine a lot of people would say My Brilliant Friend.
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The vegetarian by Han Kang
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Ghachar ghochar ( I listened to the audiobook, it’s nice)
Translated works of Tagore
the running flame by fang fang
after dark by haruki murakami
permafrost by eva baltasar
terminal boredom:stories by izumi suzuki
malina by ingeborg bachmann
the lost estate by henri alain fournier
Here are some books translated into English from other languages, at least the verions I read, if I correctly understand the question.
* *Human Acts* and *The Vegetarian*, Han Kang. From Korean. (Note, she does not shy away from depicting, in detail, the horrors we will commit on one another.)
* *Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,* Olga Tokarczuk. From Polish. (I didn’t like *The Empusium* as much).
* *When We Cease to Understand the World*, Benjamin Labatut, From Spanish.
* *One Hundred Years of Solitude*, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (Spanish).
* *Anna Karenina,* Leo Tolstoy. Russian.
* *The Stranger*, Albert Camus. French (It’s not a favorite so much as one that’s oddly stuck with me)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Japan). La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (first book by a woman from the Equatorial Guinea to be translated into English!). The Time of Cherries by Montserrat Roig (Catalonia–I don’t think it’s out in the US yet but there is a British edition which is what I read). I am also trying to read more in translation so I’ll be creeping on the other comments on this thread!
*All You Need is Kill* by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
*A Magical Girl Retires* by Seolyeon Park
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
[Monkey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(novel)) by Wu Ch’eng-en – the Arthur Waley translation (Penguin Classics). It’s an abridged version of ‘Journey to the West’, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China. An epic with elements of ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ meets ‘The Wizard of Oz’, if you like.
The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch & Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (both polish)
I haven’t read it yet, but I imagine a lot of people would say My Brilliant Friend.