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by Danilo Kiš (1965)

An intensely detailed semi-autobiographical story about a child living in Hungary during the World War II.

by Danilo Kiš (1983)

A collection of metaphysical short stories set in various times and places, luminously darkened with the themes of fate and death’s impenetrability.

by Danilo Kiš (1976)

Seven different yet casually interlinked short stories about revolutionaries, mostly centering around the Russian Revolution

by Orhan Pamuk (1979)

The story of a young Italian savant and his ambivalent relationship his Turkish double in 17th century, their intense struggle of knowledge and power domination

by Natsume Soseki (1922)

A young Japanese “black sheep of the family”, a “straight-shooter” with a knack for troubles and misdeeds, was sent to teach mathematics in an isolated southern islands.

by Kenzaburo Oe (1964)

An alienated youth, resenting the burdens of responsibility that age and marriage has caged him in from reaching his utopian dream of travelling to Africa, is forced to face his deformed newly-born.

by Remy Sylado (2003)

A Menadonese child sold by her brother to Shinju in Kembang Jepun, to be trained, disguised, into an out-and-out Japanese geisha during pre-Japanese colonial to post-independence era.

by Elfriede Jelinek (1981)

The strict and rigid Erika Kohut taught piano at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory during the day and trawls the porn districts by night.

by Ahmadou Kourouma (1981)

A short novel of early post-colonial Africa: the story of Fama, the prince of Horodugu region, ‘the last of the Dumbuya’ who had reigned over the Malinke and his wife, Salimata.

by Edogawa Rampo (1956)

A lucidly-translated collection of short mystery stories by Japan’s most famous mystery writer.