A bumper crop in my translated fiction roundup for @theguardian.com. A private eye who's too fat to escape through windows; a book whose only failing is there isn't more of it; and a late entry—funny, surprising and in parts overwhelming in its emotional force—for one of the best novels of the year.
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The best translated fiction – review roundup
Fathers and Fugitives by SJ Naudé; Untold Lessons by Maddalena Vaglio Tanet; A Man with No Title by Xavier Le Clerc; Command Performance by Jean Echenoz
