Women in Translation

The Physics of Sorrow

By: Georgi Gospodinov
Narrated by: Toby Stephens
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

The “quirky [and] compulsively readable” (New York Times) precursor to the 2023 International Booker Prize–winning Time Shelter. Written with a “formal playfulness [that] suggests Kundera with A.D.D.” (Village Voice), Georgi Gospodinov’s The Physics of Sorrow became an underground cult classic upon its 2012 release. In a radical reimagining of... Read more

Off-White

By: Astrid Roemer
Narrated by: Christel Mutombo
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

It’s 1966 in Suriname, on the Caribbean coast of South America, and the long shadow of colonialism still hangs over the country. Grandma Bee is the proud, cigar-smoking matriarch of the Vanta family, which is an intricate mix of Creole, Maroon, French, Indian, Indigenous, British, and Jewish backgrounds. But Grandma Bee is dying, a cough has... Read more

The Healing Season of Pottery

By: Yeon Somin
Narrated by: Jennifer Kim
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

“Jungmin is adrift, directionless, after abruptly quitting her job and withdrawing from society. As she begins to resurface, she stumbles upon a pottery studio where she learns to throw clay and how to connect to the others in the shop. I found this book to be soothing and kind, the poetic prose perfect for curling up somewhere comfy with a... Read more

Jumpnauts

By: Hao Jingfang
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

From the Hugo Award­–winning author of Folding Beijing comes a gripping science fiction thriller in which three unlikely allies attempt a desperate mission of first contact with a mysterious alien race before more militaristic minds can take matters into their own hands.

In a future where the world is roughly divided into two factions, the... Read more

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

Stories

By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Aida Reluzco, Andy Garcia-Ruse, André Santana & Christian Barillas
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

An NPR Best Book of 2023

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh.

From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies.... Read more

Ti Amo

By: Hanne Ørstavik
Narrated by: Madeleine Dauer
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Celebrated throughout the world for her candor and sensitivity to the rhythms of language, Hanne Ørstavik is a leading light on the international stage. Ørstavik's prose adheres so closely to the inner workings of its narrator's mind as to nearly undo itself. In Martin Aitken's translation, Ørstavik's piercing story sings.



Ti Amo brings a new,... Read more

A Line in the World

A Year on the North Sea Coast

By: Dorthe Nors
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Dorthe Nors's first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast—from Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark to the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. In fourteen expansive essays, Nors traces the history, geography, and culture of the places she visits while reflecting on her childhood and her family and... Read more

Lucky Breaks

By: Yevgenia Belorusets
Narrated by: Alexandra Cohler
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in Ukraine



Out of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets's captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins... 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

Three

By: Valérie Perrin
Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelée
Length: 21 hours 23 minutes

1986: Adrien, Etienne, and Nina are ten years old when they meet at school and quickly become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater, move to Paris, and never part. 2017: A car is pulled up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past, reports on... Read more

Concerning My Daughter

A Novel

By: Kim Hye-jin
Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Ideally, a steady income and a good husband.



But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into... Read more

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

By: Shokoofeh Azar
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a small village, hoping in this way to preserve both their intellectual freedom and their lives. But they soon... Read more

Grime

A Novel

By: Sibylle Berg
Narrated by: Kwame Augustine
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

The first English translation of celebrated Swiss-German novelist Sibylle Berg, Grime is a manifesto for fury, escape, and individual revolt… Read more

Portrait of an Unknown Lady

By: Maria Gainza
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

New York Times Notable author María Gainza, who dazzled critics with Optic Nerve, returns with the captivating story of an auction house employee on the trail of an enigmatic master forger.



In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette... Read more

How to Love Your Daughter

A Novel

By: Hila Blum
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

“A stone-cold masterwork of psychological tension. Its final pages had me holding my breath.” —Flynn Berry, New York Times Book Review

The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love?

Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark... Read more

Tomb of Sand

A Novel

By: Geetanjali Shree
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
Length: 18 hours 20 minutes

WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE“A triumph of literature.”—Financial Times“Echoes of James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Isabel Allende and Leo Tolstoy. . . . An enchanting ride.”—BookPage“A breath of fresh air.”—GuardianA playful, feminist, and utterly original epic set in contemporary northern India, about a family and the inimitable... Read more

At The Breakfast Table

By: Betsy Göksel & Defne Suman
Narrated by: Angela Christofilou & Frazer Blaxland
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, from the author of The Silence of Scheherazade.

Prinkipo Island, Turkey, 2017. In the glow of a late summer morning, family gather for the 100th birthday of the famous artist Sirin Saka. It ought to be a time of fond reminiscence,... 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

Roundabout of Death

By: Faysal Khartash
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Set in Aleppo in 2012, when everyday life was metronomically punctuated by bombing, Roundabout of Death offers powerful witness to the violence that obliterated the ancient city's rich layers of history, its neighborhoods and medieval and Ottoman landmarks. The novel is told from the perspective of an ordinary man, a schoolteacher of Arabic for... Read more

The Chief Witness

Escape from China's Modern-Day Concentration Camps

By: Sayragul Sauytbay & Alexandra Cavelius
Narrated by: Xifeng Brooks
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Born in China’s northwestern province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime? Being Kazakh, one of China’s ethnic minorities. The northwestern province borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the point in... Read more