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Translated books of the year 2010

Chosen by our translated fiction reviewers, Nikesh Shukla, Catherine Mansfield and Pete Mitchell, here are our five translated books of the year...

  • The Road

    The Road

    by Vasily Grossman
    Quercus Publishing
    It will soon be fifty years since Vasily Grossman died - worn out by a lifetime of witnessing horror and brutality, and by the unfriendly attentions of the Soviet state - and only now is he beginning to be acknowledged...
    Read about 'The Road'
  • The Lost World

    The Lost World

    by Patricia Melo
    Bloomsbury
    This intelligent, fast-paced thriller takes us into the mind of a killer on a gripping road trip across Brazil.
    Read about 'The Lost World'
  • Beside the Sea

    Beside the Sea

    by Veronique Olmi
    Pereine Press
    On a rainy night, a mother sets out on a bus journey to the seaside with her two small sons, knowing that it will be the last trip they ever make. What she hopes will be a happy last memory...
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  • An Awkward Age

    An Awkward Age

    by Anna Starobinets
    Hesperus Press
    Everything in Starobinets' stories smacks of the sinister and perverse. An unnamed narrator assuages loneliness with a companion grown from mould, until the horrific smell alerts the authorities
    Read about 'An Awkward Age'
  • Pereira Maintains

    Pereira Maintains

    by Antonio Tabucchi
    Canongate
    Pereira has never seen himself as a hero. He's a middle-aged, overweight culture editor for a second-rate newspaper in late 1930s Lisbon.
    Read about 'Pereira Maintains'