Consider you’re looking for a French book in French language, when you search Amazon, you only find English translations of that particular book.
An easy solution is to go to Amazon French Site and do your search there. Other Amazon foreign language websites include those for Germany and Japan.
Visiting one of Amazon’s foreign language sites may be the simplest way to find your book, but its not necessarily the best way. First you’ll be ordering the book from a foreign publisher, so you’ll pay substantial shipping costs. And depending on the exchange rate, you may pay a premium for the book as well.
A better bet is to search Amazon for foreign language books published in the U.S., using Amazon’s Power Search feature. First, click the books tab on Amazon. Then click the Advanced Search link in the upper lefthand corner of the page. Scroll down in the Search Books page until you come to the Power Search box. In the box, type:
title: Eugenie Grandet language: French
Click the Power Search Now button. You’ll get a list of French-language versions of Le Eugenie Grandet.
If you want to search by author instead, type:
author: Balzac Language French
You can also search for books written in other foreign languages, including italian, spanish, German, Russian, and more.
Note that you must use title:, author:, or a similar modifier when searching, See Amazon help guide for further details about all tags.
For example if you search for:
Eugenie Grandet Language: French
You won’t get any results. Also, you can’t do this type of search from the normal Amazon search box, you have to use the Power Search box on the Search Books page.
Note: Power Search results aren’t foolproof, you’ll still sometimes get English-language editions. Double -check by clicking the Search Inside button and checking the book’s table of contents, or looking at an excerpt.
