Literature in Translation

Ada's Room

A Novel

By: Sharon Dodua Otoo
Narrated by: Cyril Nri & Debbie Korley
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival.

A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer,... Read more

Walking Practice

A Novel

By: Dolki Min
Narrated by: Nicky Endres
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human.After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, a shapeshifting alien find themself stranded on an unfamiliar... Read more

Our Share of Night

A Novel

By: Mariana Enriquez
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 27 hours 16 minutes

“A masterpiece of supernatural horror.”—The Washington Post
“An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)

ONE OF TIME AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S TEN BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • GOOD MORNING... Read more

In the Belly of the Congo

By: Blaise Ndala
Narrated by: Christel Mutombo
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

April 1958.

Organizing the Brussels World’s Fair, the biggest international event since the end of the Second World War, subcommissioner Robert Dumont cedes to pressure from the royal palace: there will be a “Congolese village” in one of the seven pavilions devoted to the settlements. Among the eleven members
of this “human zoo” assembled to put... Read more

Eastbound

By: Maylis De Kerangal
Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

In this gripping tale, a Russian conscript and a French woman cross paths on the Trans-Siberian railroad, each fleeing to the east for their own reasons

Eastbound is both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds.

In mysterious, winding sentences gorgeously translated by Jessica Moore, De Kerangal gives us the story of two... Read more

The Private Lives of Trees

A Novel

By: Alejandro Zambra
Narrated by: Gisela Chipe
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a “short and strikingly original” (The New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and our loved ones—now reissued by Penguin

Veronica is late, and Julián is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees... Read more

Sweetlust

Stories

By: Asja Bakić
Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

In a dystopian world with no men, women are “rehabilitated” at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of The Sorrows of Young Werther refocuses to center a sexually adventurous Charlotte. Asja Baki? deploys the... Read more

Stolen

By: Ann-Helén Laestadius
Narrated by: Jade Wheeler
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

“Set in a small Scandinavian village, Stolen is the story of a Sami girl who - at a young age - witnesses the brutal killing of her reindeer, a crime treated as 'theft' in the surrounding community. The local police agency won’t do anything about these crimes, and it’s up to Elsa, as she matures, to stand up and fight for her people, her reindeer... Read more

Forbidden Notebook

A Novel

By: Alba de Céspedes
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

This is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cuban feminist writer Alba de Céspedes, whose work inspired contemporary writers like Elena FerranteIn this modern translation by acclaimed Elena Ferrante translator Ann Goldstein, The Forbidden Notebook centers the inner life of a dissatisfied housewife living in postwar Rome.Valeria Cossati never... Read more

The Ally

By: Iván Repila
Narrated by: Thom Rivera & Frankie Corzo
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

In this unexpectedly hilarious social novel, a misguided thirty-something tries to beat his girlfriend at her own game: becoming the ultimate feministWhen he first meets Najwa at a lecture by Siri Hustvedt—whom he’s never read—our hero discovers a whole new world of feminist thought.Determined to impress her, he sets out sincerely on his journey... Read more

Cursed Bunny

Stories

By: Bora Chung
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANT

"Cool, brilliantly demented K-horror—just the way I like it!" —Ed Park, author of Personal Days

A stunning, wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature—surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big... Read more

The Tatami Galaxy

A Novel

By: Tomihiko Morimi
Narrated by: Andrew Grace
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library–esque novel from one of Japan’s most popular authors.Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on the verge of dropping out. After... Read more

The Pachinko Parlor

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
Narrated by: Hannah Choi
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women's calves, men's shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies borne for too long.



It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned... Read more

Witches

By: Brenda Lozano
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets.



Sent to report on Paloma's murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the... Read more

Yoga

By: Emmanuel Carrère
Narrated by: Nick Mondelli
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully―he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone,... Read more

Linea Nigra

By: Jazmina Barrera
Narrated by: Karla Hernandez
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Desde los primeros momentos de su embarazo, Jazmina Barrera inició un diario que pronto se convirtió en un ensayo. Pero escribir sobre la gestación es también hacer la crónica de un proceso: el relato del comienzo de la vida. Así, Linea nigra es una novela ensayística o un ensayo novelado donde la autora, con la inteligente curiosidad y el... Read more

Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

“Ambitious and unique, Time Shelter is a clinic for patients with Alzheimer's that allows patients to immerse themselves in the past. The clinic begins to attract people without Alzheimer's who seek refuge from the anxiety of their own lives. Blending nostalgia, identity, and time, societal shifts begin to impact the past, present, and future. A... Read more

All the Lovers in the Night

By: Mieko Kawakami
Narrated by: Mirai Booth-Ong
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

The bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami invites listeners back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today’s most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists.Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copyeditor in her mid-thirties. Working and... Read more

Páradais

By: Fernanda Melchor
Narrated by: Karina Gidi
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

«Fernanda Melchor explora la violencia y la desigualdad en esta novela brutal. Lo hace con una destreza técnica deslumbrante, oído absoluto para la oralidad y precisión de neurocirujana para la crueldad. Páradais es un breve e inexorable descenso al infierno». Mariana Enríquez En un conjunto residencial de lujo, dos adolescentes inadaptados se... Read more

The Trouble with Happiness

And Other Stories

By: Tove Ditlevsen
Narrated by: Stine Wintlev
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

The Trouble with Happiness is a short-story collection from Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, never before translated in English

A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife’s beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of... Read more