TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
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Translations
Translator(s): Jim Normington, Jack Hirschman
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 201 pp.
ISBN: 9781880684733
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In verses that fuse highly original imagery with exuberant rhythms, Efraín Huerta probes the cultures of both Mexico and "el Norte, " from the impact of racism in Mississippi to political corruption in Mexico. Since he demanded… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Betty Ferber
Author: Homero AridjisOriginal work: 1492 : vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 284 pp.
ISBN: 9780826330963
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Now in English for the first time, this sweeping story of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain during the era of world exploration was a best-seller in Latin America in the 1980s.
Title: Alice's Island
Translator(s): Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Author: Daniel Sánchez ArévaloOriginal work: La isla de Alice
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 390 pp.
ISBN: 9781501171956
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Alice Dupont's perfect marriage was a perfect lie. When her husband, Chris, dies in a car accident, far from where he should have been, Alice's life falls apart. After the police close the case, she is left with more questions… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction
Title: Ballad of Another Time
Translator(s): Asa Zatz
Author: José Luis GonzálezOriginal work: Balada de otro tiempo
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 101 pp.
ISBN: 9780299206949
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale of love and honor in which Rosendo Arbona discovers that his young wife Dominga is missing. When he learns that she has run away with one of the young farm workers, Rosendo embarks on what will become a an almost mythic… read more
Title: Bartleby & Co.
Translator(s): Jonathan Dunne
Author: Enrique Vila-MatasOriginal work: Bartleby y compañía
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 178 pp.
ISBN: 0811215911
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tells the story of a hunchback who is a failed writer that has no luck with women. He is a self-described "Bartleby", named after the Herman Melville character; someone who, when asked to reveal information about themselves, will… read more
Literary Genre: Romans
Title: Burnt Honey
Translator(s): Sara E. Cooper
Author: Antonio Arreguín BermúdezOriginal work: Miel quemada
Publisher: Linus Publications, Inc.
City: Deer Park, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 154 pp.
ISBN: 9781934188866
Title: City of the Beasts
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel AllendeOriginal work: La ciudad de las bestias
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 406 pp.
ISBN: 9780061825118
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) When Alexander Cold's mother falls ill, the fifteen-year-old is sent to stay with his eccentric grandmother in New York. A tough and prickly magazine reporter, Kate Cold takes Alex along with her on an expedition to the Amazon… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Juvenile works, Paranormal fiction, Adventure, Romans
Translator(s): Andrea L. Bell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilán
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
City: Middletown, CT
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9780819566348
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of 27 Spanish and Latin American science fiction stories, dating from 1862 to 2001. The first-ever collection of Latin American science fiction in English. Opening a window onto a fascinating new world for… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Dante's Ballad
Translator(s): Susan Giersbach-Rascón
Author: Eduardo González ViañaOriginal work: El corrido de Dante
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 299 pp.
ISBN: 9781558854871
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Dante encourages his fifteen-year-old daughter to date only Spanish-speaking Hispanics, but she ignores his advice and runs off with a non-Spanish speaking Latino with tatoos and a shaved head. The disappearance cannot be… read more
Original work: Viene clareando
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 175 pp.
ISBN: 9781558616035
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This quiet, powerful novel from Argentinian author Lise is told by a young woman caught up in the country's March 1976 coup d'etat. As General Videla's thugs prepare to overturn the government of General Peron's widow, 20-year-… read more
Translator(s): Robert G. Mowry
Author: Vicente AleixandreOriginal work: La destrucción o el amor
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
City: Selinsgrove, PA
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 274 pp.
ISBN: 9781575910512
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Destruction or Love is the first complete English translation of one of the major works by Spanish Nobel Laureate Vicente Aleixandre. It conveys to English readers some of the syntactic inventiveness and suggestive imagery of the… read more
Title: Don Quixote
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraOriginal work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: Borders Classics by special arrangement with Ann Arbor Media Group
City: Ann Arbor, MI
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 556 pp.
ISBN: 9781587265433
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Title: Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraOriginal work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: Signet Classic
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 527 pp.
ISBN: 9780451528902
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An abridged version designed to relate without digressions the principal adventures of the knight and his squire.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Title: Doña Inés vs. Oblivion
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Ana Teresa TorresOriginal work: Doña Inés contra el olvido
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 243 pp.
ISBN: 9780802137265
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Matriarch of a wealthy planter family in the eighteenth-century village of Caracas, Dona Ines fights for control of a coastal-province plantation that her late husband has bequeathed to his illegitimate son by a black slave.… read more
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García MárquezOriginal work: El amor en los tiempos del cólera
Publisher: Vintage
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 461 pp.
ISBN: 9780307384264
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal to depart from routine
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Love stories, Fiction, Movie novels
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo ArenasOriginal work: El mundo alucinante : una novela de aventuras
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 250 pp.
ISBN: 9780142000199
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando—priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters,… read more
Title: In Praise of the Stepmother
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Mario Vargas LlosaOriginal work: Elogio de la madrastra
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9780312421304
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, little by little, darkens the extraordinary happiness and harmony of his characters.… read more
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Perennial Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9780060751586
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This collection of fiction, representing some of Garcia Marquez's earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella.Contents: The incredible and sad tale of… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9780060907013
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "This new collection of short fiction should enhance his ever-growing reputation for extraordinarily fine writing. . . . Deceptively simple, brooding, evocative fiction, beautifully written." Publishers WeeklyContents: … read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Donald A. Yates, James East Irby
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 9780811216999
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original figures in modern literature. Labyrinths is a… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english© 2024 - Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos