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30 Terrific HarperCollins Translations to Read

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Words, like water, flow across borders. It is through words and languages that we can access the world that surrounds us, and the art and process of translations enables this exchange. On International Translation Day, check out 30 of our terrific translations that should be on your reading lists.

 

Written in Tears
by Arupa Patangia Kalita

A half-burnt bus passes through a city charring everything alive and beautiful in its wake. The newly wed Arunima watches helplessly as the aftermath of her insurgent brother-in-law's absence engulfs her husband's large, loving family. Ayengla secretly supplies food to…

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Written in Tears
Dear Reader
by Sankar | Arunava Sinha

'One of India's finest writers looks back on a long and eventful literary journey - through changing times and a changing India' - Ruskin BondSankar's life as a writer began when he decided to honour his deceased employer, Noel Barwell,…

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Dear Reader
Chronicles Of The Lost Daughters
by Debarati Mukhopadhyay | Arunava Sinha

When unspeakable tragedy befalls Bhubonmoni, a young widow, she must leave her village along with her brother, Krishnoshundor, and his family. Ensnared by the wily entrepreneur Nobokishore Dutta, they end up in an overcrowded depot near a port, soon to…

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Chronicles Of The Lost Daughters
Life And Political Reality
by Shahidul Zahir | V. Ramaswamy | Shahroza Nahrin

Born in 1953 in Old Dhaka, Shahidul Zahir published only six works in his short life - but these are some of the most unique and powerful works of fiction to have come out of the subcontinent. With his own…

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Life And Political Reality
When The Night Agrees To Speak To Me [LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN POETRY]
by Ananda Devi | Kazim Ali

'If I had only one word to define this book, it would be aliveness-a synonym, plausibly, in Ananda Devi's idiolect, for freedom. Everything-from the Night in the title, to skin, to mud, to a green sari, to sound, to Time…

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When The Night Agrees To Speak To Me [LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN POETRY]
The First World War Adventures Of Nariman Karkaria
by Nariman Karkaria | Murali Ranganathan

Amazing! An astonishing find! - AMITAV GHOSHNariman Karkaria, a young Parsi from Gujarat, had always wanted to see the world. So he left home as a teenager with fifty rupees in his pocket to do just that. After working in…

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The First World War Adventures Of Nariman Karkaria
Ratno Dholi
by Jenny Bhatt

Brilliant ... an iconic voice - Namita GokhaleOne of the finest short story writers from India - Aruni KashyapJenny Bhatt ... deserves our gratitude and attention - Rita KothariTrain your telescopes, ladies and gentlemen, Dhumketu is here! - Jerry PintoThe…

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Ratno Dholi
Sahela Re
by Mrinal Pande | Trans. Priyanka Sarkar

When Vidya, a music scholar, sets out to write a book on the history of Hindustani classical music, she uncovers the remnants of a time and a tradition fast receding: when singers embodied the ragas in their purest forms; when…

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Sahela Re
The Blue Scarf and Other Stories
by Anu Singh Choudhary | Kamayani Sharma

In The Blue Scarf and Other Stories, we meet young women from small-town India trying to find themselves in the big cities that they have moved to. Even as their dreams, desires and ambitions jostle for space in cramped hostel…

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The Blue Scarf and Other Stories
Legal Fiction
by Chandan Pandey | Bharatbhooshan Tiwari

This is like Kafka in Deoria. Or Camus in the cow belt. But more accurate to say that Legal Fiction is an urgent, literary report about how truth goes missing in our land. I read it with a racing heart.--…

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Legal Fiction
Ghachar Ghochar
by Vivek Shanbhag | Srinath Perur

'It's true what they say - it's not we who control money, it's the money that controls us. When there's only a little, it behaves meekly; when it grows, it becomes brash and has its way with us.' From a…

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Ghachar Ghochar
No Presents Please
by Jayant Kaikini | Tejaswini Niranjana

Winner: DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories is not about what Mumbai is, but what it enables. Here is a city where two young people decide to elope and then start nursing dreams of different…

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No Presents Please
This Life At Play
by Girish Karnad | Srinath Perur | Girish Karnad

Girish Karnad was one of modern India's greatest cultural figures: an accomplished actor, a path-breaking director, an innovative administrator, a clear-headed and erudite thinker, a public intellectual with an unwavering moral compass, and above all, the most extraordinarily gifted playwright…

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This Life At Play
For Now, It Is Night
by Hari Krishna Kaul | Kalpana Raina | Tanveer Ajsi | Gowhar Fazili | Gowhar Yaqoob

Hari Krishna Kaul, one of the very best modern Kashmiri writers, published most of his work between 1972 and 2000. His short stories, shaped by the social crisis and political instability in Kashmir, explore - with an impressive eye for…

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For Now, It Is Night
Age of Frenzy
by Mahabaleshwar Sail | Vidya Pai

It's 1510. The Portuguese arrive in Goa armed with guns, swords and crucifixes to the agricultural village of Adolshi. As tigers prowl about, cow bones appear in wells, chariot wheels break on festival day, a sense of foreboding fills the…

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Age of Frenzy
The Bride
by Harimohan Jha | Lalit Kumar

'A Suitable Boy in Maithili' Amitava Kumar'[A] conscientious and nuanced translation' Namita GokhaleThirteen-year-old Buchia is quick-witted and pleasant-looking, but in the competitive marriage mart of Bihar, her family needs to be resourceful and wily to find the right groom to…

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The Bride
ASSASSIN
by K.R. Meera | Trans. J. Devika

From the award-winning author of Hangwoman.Late one night in November 2016, Satyapriya, a middle-aged professional living alone in a big city, is attacked by an unidentified assailant. Though she escapes unhurt, a conversation with her paralysed father reveals that this…

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ASSASSIN
Moustache
by S. Hareesh | Jayasree Kalathil

WINNER OF THE JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2020. 'A novel of epic dimensions ... easily among the most accomplished fictional works in Malayalam.'K. SATCHIDANANDANVavachan is a Pulayan who gets the opportunity to play a policeman with an immense moustache in…

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Moustache
Valli
by Sheela Tomy | Jayasree Kalathil

High in the Western Ghats in northern Kerala is a land of mist and mystery, of forests and folklore, rich with the culture of its indigenous people, the Adivasis. Its old name was Bayalnad - land of the paddy fields…

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Valli
Shivaji
by Ranjit Desai | Vikrant Pande

'The epic text of Ranjit Desai's Shriman Yogi finds new voice in Vikrant Pande's nuanced translation, an immersive narrative of the foundations of the Maratha empire and the saga of its charismatic founder.' - Namita Gokhale. Young Shivaji reaches Pune,…

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Shivaji
Hymns in Blood
by Nanak Singh | Navdeep Suri

1947, Chakri. An idyllic village on the banks of the Soan near Rawalpindi, surrounded by stalks of golden wheat and festive songs. Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs eagerly await the end of winter and get together to prepare for Lohri. Amidst…

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Hymns in Blood
The Garden of Tales
by Vijaydan Detha | Trans. Vishes Kothari

A seth who lends money by mortgaging the borrower's next birth...A bride who, after the wedding, discovers her husband is actually a woman...A jogi dwelling in the skies who quells his lust by imprisoning women in his Cloud Palace...Vijaydan Detha…

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The Garden of Tales
Saundarya Lahari
by Mani Rao

Saundarya Lahari is a popular Sanskrit hymn celebrating the power and beauty of Sakti, the primordial goddess. In one hundred verses, it underlines the centrality of the feminine principle in Indian thought.Attributed to Adi Sankaracarya, Saundarya Lahari is a valuable…

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Saundarya Lahari
Tales from the Kathasaritsagara
by SOMADEVA | ARSHIA SATTAR

The Kathasaritsagara - the ocean of stories - is among the world's great story collections, truly an ocean that carries the reader on its gentle swell to shores far and near, to places known and imagined, to people familiar and…

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Tales from the Kathasaritsagara
Valmiki's Ramayana
by ARSHIA SATTAR

Valmiki's Ramayana, composed as early as 500 BCE, remains a story that speaks to every generation and continues to enthral millions of people in the Subcontinent and beyond.The noble prince Rama is exiled from Ayodhya on his stepmother's whim, and…

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Valmiki's Ramayana
An Order from the Sky and Other Stories
by Imayam | Trans. Vasantha Surya

A man offering curses and prayers, gifts and threats to his favourite deity before embarking upon a day of thieving...A woman in a packed bus, desperate to get home before her clothes are soaked with menstrual blood, but also determined…

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An Order from the Sky and Other Stories
Breaking Free
by VAASANTHI | N. Kalyan Raman

A magical storyteller -- SHASHI DESHPANDE'Doesn't this life strike you as shameful?''I am an artist. That's the only thing that matters to me.' Kasturi and Lakshmi are born into the devadasi clan. While Kasturi thinks of nothing other than the…

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Breaking Free
The Liberation of Sita
by Volga | T. Vijay Kumar | C. Vijayasree

Valmiki's Ramayana is the story of Rama's exile and return to Ayodhya, of a triumphant king who will always do right by his subjects. In Volga's retelling, it is Sita who, after being abandoned by Purushottam Rama, embarks on an…

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The Liberation of Sita
Hassan's State of Affairs
by Mirza Athar Baig | Haider Shahbaz

Bestselling and critically acclaimed, Lahore-based Mirza Athar Baig is one of the most important contemporary Urdu writers. Hassan's State of Affairs -- his first book to be translated into English -- is a surreal ride through Pakistan. It follows an…

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Hassan's State of Affairs
The Weary Generations
by Abdullah Hussein | Abdullah Hussein

Published in 1963, before Paul Scott's Raj Quartet and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Abdullah Hussein's Udaas Naslein was an instant bestseller. Now beyond its fortieth edition, it has never been out of print. Hussein leads us into a story of…

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The Weary Generations

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