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I don't know any great foreign language books that haven't been translated yet, but there are some that are considered classics and which are now available in many different languages. One of the most famous and popular ones is probably Cien años de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude as it is known in English, by Gabriel García Márquez. The book came out in the late sixties and covers the lives of the Buendía Family and their involvement with the town of Macondo. I haven't read the original, but the english translation does a good job with capturing the symbolism and metaphors that are rife in the story.

You are probably aware of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra by Gaston Leroux. This French novel was eventually translated to the much loved The Phantom of the Opera, which everyone should know. Then of course there is El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes that all of us in the English speaking world know as Don Quixote.
If there is one movie that completely embodies that movies can be so, so much better than their source material then it is The Godfather. Francis Ford Coppola took what was basically a pulp fiction novel and turned it into one of the highest-grossing films of its time. For anyone not familiar with the book by Mario Puzo, try reading it after watching the movie and you'll understand. It's still about the Corleone family and the main plot is there, but so are pages and pages of useless subplots and side stories that should have been edited out. By the end of the book I knew way more about the personal issues of many of the characters, like Lucy, than I ever needed or wanted to. It didn't prevent the book from becoming a best-seller, but I'm grateful that the movie dropped all of the unnecessary stuff.
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