Translation Books

Outside In: Children's Books in Translation This book provides a guide and review of some of the most ground-breaking, influential and popular children books that have been translated into English. http://www.literarytranslation.com/resources/books/

The Babel Guide to Hungarian Literature "The Babel Guide to Hungarian Literature" presents before you some interesting modern Hungarian literature including novels, poetry, drama and short-story collections that have been translated into English. http://www.babelguides.com/view/guide/hung

Blitz and other stories Originally titled as Yikhes and written in yiddish language, this book was translated in English with the title Blitz and other stories. These stories of this book are set in London and Poland around the time of the Second World War. http://www.babelguides.com/view/work/54858

A Woman in Berlin This German book titled Eine Frau in Berlin was written by an anonymous author, showing a collection of her diary entries in her early 30s narrating the events of her life in the last part of World War II and the first postwar years in bombed-out Berlin. The book was later translated into English under the title A Woman in Berlin. http://www.worldpress.org/Europe/1123.cfm

The Feast of the Goat "The Feast of the Goat" by the Peruvian novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa, originally a Spanish book titled "La Fiesta del Chivo" is a modern day classic . It is the story of a Dominican dictator Trujillo, who dominates his people but cannot his bladder. Through this story, the author tries to say how abolute power corrupts absolutely. http://www.mostlyfiction.com/latin/vargas_llosa.htm

The Trial The Trial , originally a German book titled Der Process is a novel written by Franz Kafka in which he gives a terrifying psychological trip of a character named Josef K., who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit. http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=5309313

Darkness at Noon Darkness at Noon is a Hungarian novel written by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler. The novel was published in 1940, where the story of a Bolshevik old guard named Rubashov, is told where in 1917 revolutionary he was first out casted and then jailed and tried for treason by the Soviet government he once helped to create. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_at_Noon

Judge on Trial This is a Czech novel in a semi-autobiographical form telling the dilemmas of intellectual life under communist rule in Eastern Europe. http://www.amazon.com/Judge-Trial-Ivan-Klima/dp/0679737561