Women in Translation

A Woman Like Her

The Story behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star

By: Sanam Maher
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

The murder of a Pakistani social media star exposes a culture divided between accelerating modernity and imposed traditional values—and the tragedy of those caught in the middle.In 2016, Pakistan’s first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Her death quickly became a media sensation. It was both... Read more

Renia's Diary

A Holocaust Journal

By: Renia Spiegel
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

A New York Times bestseller
A USA Today bestseller

The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English

Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia... Read more

The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators

By: Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang
Narrated by: Katharine Chin
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy.

In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform... Read more

The Housekeeper and the Professor

By: Yoko Ogawa
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem—ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.



She is an astute young Housekeeper—with a ten-year-old son—who is hired to care for the Professor.



And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a... Read more

Penance

By: Kanae Minato
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

A chilling Japanese psychological thriller and Edgar Award finalist about four women, forever connected by one horrible day in their childhood -- fifteen years later, someone wants to make sure they never forget.

When they were girls, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into leaving their friend Emily with a mysterious stranger. Then the... Read more

Memoirs of a Polar Bear

By: Yoko Tawada
Narrated by: Christa Lewis & Paul Woodson
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as "Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness"—Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the... Read more

The Loyalties

A Novel

By: Delphine de Vigan
Narrated by: Susannah Jones & Jay Ben Markson
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Adults are as lost as the children they should be protecting, as the lives of four people trapped in a conspiracy of silence hurtle toward a desperate and devastating act.
Twelve-year-old Théo and his friend Mathis have a secret. Their teacher, Hélène, suspects something is not right with Théo and becomes obsessed with rescuing him, casting aside... Read more

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By: Muriel Barbery
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris & Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

An enchanting New York Times and international bestseller and award-winner about life, art, literature, philosophy, culture, class, privilege, and power, seen through the eyes of a 54-year old French concierge and a precocious but troubled 12-year-old girl.

Renée Michel is the 54-year-old concierge of a luxury Paris apartment building. Her... Read more

No Touching

By: Ketty Rouf
Narrated by: Alex Picard
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Prix du Premier Roman 2020 A story of liberation and a heartrending portrayal of a woman’s sense of self, Ketty Rouf’s extraordinary debut shatters tired prejudices about sex, women, and society.    Josephine teaches philosophy in a high school in Drancy, a suburb of Paris. Her life is a balancing act between Xanax, Propranolol and Tupperware... Read more

A Single Rose

By: Muriel Barbery
Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible.   Rose has just turned forty when she gets a call from a lawyer asking her to come to Kyoto for the reading of her estranged father’s will. And so for the first time in... Read more

Belle Greene

By: Alexandra Lapierre
Narrated by: Ja'Air Bush
Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Based on the true story of Belle da Costa Greene, a woman who defied all odds to carve out a destiny of her own choosing, this is a richly imagined novel bursting with atmosphere, lush period detail, and many unforgettable characters.  New York in the 1900s. A young girl fascinated by rare books defies all odds and becomes the director of one of... Read more

Abigail

By: Magda Szabó
Narrated by: Samantha Desz
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

From the author of The Door, a beloved coming-of-age tale set in WWII-era Hungary.



Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó's books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright and willful daughter. Gina is... Read more

Fauna

By: Christiane Vadnais
Narrated by: Sabryn Rock
Length: 3 hours

In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species — humans included — are evolving and behaving in... Read more

And Miles To Go Before I Sleep

By: Jocelyne Saucier
Narrated by: J. Sean Elliott
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Away From Her meets Strangers on a Train in this follow-up to cult bestseller And the Birds Rained Down After And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom, Jocelyne Saucier is back with her unique outlook on self-determination in this unsettling story about a woman’s disappearance. Gladys might look old and... Read more

The Bear Woman

By: Karolina Ramqvist
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Feminist autofiction from one of Sweden’s blazing talents. Blending autofiction and essay, The Bear Woman is a journey of feminism and literary detective work spanning centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque, was abandoned on an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with her maidservant and... Read more

Prague

By: Maude Veilleux
Narrated by: AJ Bridel
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator’s open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for love and sex. Written in stark, spare prose, Prague is an introspective and intimate account of the making of... Read more

The Woman in Valencia

By: Annie Perreault
Narrated by: Helena Marie
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

While on vacation with her family in Valencia, Claire Halde witnesses a shocking event that becomes the catalyst for a protracted downward spiral and a profound personal unravelling as she struggles to come to grips with her role in the incident. This haunting novel, which unfolds across three timelines set in as many decades, takes the... Read more

Farewell, Ghosts

By: Nadia Terranova
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Ida is a married woman in her late thirties, who lives in Rome and works at a radio station. Her mother wants to renovate the family apartment in Messina, to put it up for sale and asks her daughter to sort through her things—to decide what to keep and what to throw away.



Surrounded by the objects of her past, Ida is forced to deal with the... Read more

Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner)

By: Samanta Schweblin
Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi, Gisela Chipe, Ines del Castillo, Daisy Guevara, Lee Osorio, Elena Rey & Victoria Villarreal
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature

A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazine

The seven houses in these... Read more

Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner)

A Novel

By: Yu Miri
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations.

Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial... Read more