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50 Must-Read Modern Classics in Translation

"Did you know that only about 3% of books published in the U.S. each year are translations? The number varies from year to year, but regardless, it's low. And yet reading literature from countries and languages other than one's own has never been more important. Reading books in translation can offer us a different way of looking at the world. It can teach us about other cultures and their histories. It can help us understand ourselves better."
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The Complete Stories (Clarice Lispector)
The Complete Stories (Clarice Lispector)
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The Summer Book (Tove Jansson)
The Summer Book (Tove Jansson)
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The Box Man (Kobo Abe)
The Box Man (Kobo Abe)
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Fatelessness (Imre Kertesz)
Fatelessness (Imre Kertesz)
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History (Elsa Morante)
History (Elsa Morante)
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Terra Nostra
Terra Nostra
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Too Loud a Solitude (Bohumil Hrabal)
Too Loud a Solitude (Bohumil Hrabal)
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Mario Vargas Llosa)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Mario Vargas Llosa)
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
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So Long a Letter
So Long a Letter
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The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
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The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
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The Post-Office Girl (Stefan Zweig)
The Post-Office Girl (Stefan Zweig)
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The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
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The City and the House (Natalia Ginzburg)
The City and the House (Natalia Ginzburg)
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The Lover (Marguerite Duras)
The Lover (Marguerite Duras)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
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Fantasia: An Algerian Calvacade by Assia Djebar
Fantasia: An Algerian Calvacade by Assia Djebar
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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The Sand Child (Tahar Ben Jelloun)
The Sand Child (Tahar Ben Jelloun)
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Death in Spring (Merce Rodoreda)
Death in Spring (Merce Rodoreda)
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The Door (Magda Szabó)
The Door (Magda Szabó)
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Before (Carmen Boullosa)
Before (Carmen Boullosa)
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Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
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A Quiet Life (Kenzaburo Oe)
A Quiet Life (Kenzaburo Oe)
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A Heart So White (Javier Marías)
A Heart So White (Javier Marías)
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
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Blindness (Jose Saramago)
Blindness (Jose Saramago)
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The Rings of Saturn (W.G. Sebald)
The Rings of Saturn (W.G. Sebald)
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Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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The Savage Detectives
The Savage Detectives
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Delirium (Laura Restrepo)
Delirium (Laura Restrepo)
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
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Snow
Snow
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A Tale of Love and Darkness (Amos Oz)
A Tale of Love and Darkness (Amos Oz)
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The Yacoubian Building (Alaa Al Aswany)
The Yacoubian Building (Alaa Al Aswany)
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The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
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The Ministry of Pain (Dubravka Ugresic)
The Ministry of Pain (Dubravka Ugresic)
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Broken Glass (Alain Mabanckou)
Broken Glass (Alain Mabanckou)
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