TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
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Translations
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Jorge Luis BorgesOriginal work: El libro de arena
Publisher: Penguin
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 0143105299
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of… read more
Literary Genre: Translations, Translations into english
Title: Boxwood
Translator(s): Patricia Haugaard
Author: Camilo José CelaPublisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217514
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Boxwood might perhaps be best described as a kind of whirlwind: a vortex of marvelous writing about folklore, traditions, superstitions, cooking, nautical disasters on the Coast of Death (ships from afar spilling cargoes of… read more
Literary Genre: World literature, Novels, Fiction, Translations, Romans
Title: Breathing Through the Wound
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Víctor del ÁrbolOriginal work: Respirar por la herida
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 669 pp.
ISBN: 9781590518434
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Psychological fiction, Fiction, Love stories, Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Brickmakers
Translator(s): Annie McDermott
Author: Selva AlmadaOriginal work: Ladrilleros
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 181 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450697
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinity Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Gay fiction, Social problem fiction, Romans homosexuels, Romans
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Julián Herbert Original work: Tráiganme la cabeza de Quentin Tarantino
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 167 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450413
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The antic and often dire stories in Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino depict the violence and corruption that plague Mexico today, but they are also deeply ruminative and layered explorations of the narrative impulse and the… read more
Literary Genre: Black humor, Romans, Nouvelles, Short stories
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Jorge Luis BorgesOriginal work: El informe de Brodie
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 126 pp.
ISBN: 9780143039259
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In "Brodie's Report," he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed… read more
Title: By Night in Chile
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto BolañoOriginal work: Nocturno de Chile
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 130 pp.
ISBN: 0811215474
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): J.H. Blair
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Berkley Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9780425184660
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of erotic fiction from Latin American authors.Contents: The killing of the saints — Alex Abella ; The infinite plan — Isabel Allende ; In the name of… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Call Me Brooklyn
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Author: Eduardo LagoOriginal work: Llámame Brooklyn
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 364 pp.
ISBN: 9781564788603
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Through an ingenious structure that jumps from narrator to narrator and spans decades, Call Me Brooklyn follows the life of Gal Ackerman, a Spanish orphan adopted during the Spanish Civil War and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Moving… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Miscellaneous fiction, Fiction, Friendship, Romans
Title: Call Me Cassandra
Translator(s): Anna Kushner
Author: Marcial GalaOriginal work: Llámenme Casandra
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780374602017
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "A darkly magical tale of a haunted young dreamer, born in the wrong body and time, and believing himself to be a doomed prophetess from ancient Greek mythology"-- Cuba in the 1970s. Ten-year-old Rauli lives in hostile world:… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Romans
Title: Call Me Magdalena
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Alicia SteimbergPublisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 137 pp.
ISBN: 0803242905
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The granddaughter of Russian Jews who emigrated to Argentina, and the daughter of parents indifferent to Judaism who embrace Argentine society, a young Argentine woman is in a cultural limbo, caught between one world she cannot… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Alicia Steimberg ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Gregory Nipper
Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo IIOriginal work: Héroes convocados : manual para la toma del poder
Publisher: PM Press
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 9781604862058
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The euphoric idealism of grassroots reform and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this speculative novel that opens with a real historical event. On October 2, 1968, 10 days before the Summer… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction
Translator(s): Margaret J. Weitz
Author: Carlos B. VegaOriginal work: Caminos : la odisea de una familia española en América después de la Guerra Civil Española
Publisher: Janaway
City: Santa Maria, CA
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 519 pp.
ISBN: 9781596412958
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This a novel narrating in vivid and passionate detail the life of a Spanish family in America at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. A father and a mother holding tight to three small children seeking peace, shelter, and… read more
Title: Canción
Translator(s): Daniel Hahn, Lisa Dillman
Author: Eduardo HalfonOriginal work: Canción
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 158 pp.
ISBN: 9781954276079
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Canción, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers' conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather's multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, History, Fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): David A. Petreman
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 2
Number of pages: 184 pp.
ISBN: 1891270176
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The 16 stories in this collection deal with confrontation, struggle, and survival amidst the unforgiving violence of nature. Set in the hauntingly beautiful and dangerously remote lands of southern Patagonia and Tierra… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Captain Alatriste
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-ReverteOriginal work: El capitán Alatriste
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 253 pp.
ISBN: 9780399152757
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Wounded seventeenth-century Spanish soldier Alatriste works as a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid, but when his latest job takes an unexpectedly deadly turn, he realizes he is in the employ of one of the Spanish Inquisition's most… read more
Literary Genre: Historical thrillers, Spanish fiction, Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Adventure fiction
Title: Captain Alatriste
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-ReverteOriginal work: El capitán Alatriste
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 284 pp.
ISBN: 9780452287112
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In early 17th century Spain Captain Diego Alatriste spares the life of the two Englishmen he is hired to kill by the president of the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition and sets in motion a series of events affecting the courts of… read more
Literary Genre: Historical thrillers, Spanish fiction, Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Adventure fiction
Title: Captain Alatriste
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-ReverteOriginal work: El capitán Alatriste
Publisher: Penguin Group
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 284 pp.
ISBN: 9780452287112
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Captain Alatriste is the story of a fictional seventeenth-century Spanish soldier who lives as a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid. Needing gold to pay off his debts, Alatriste and another hired blade are paid to ambush two travelers… read more
Literary Genre: Historical thrillers, Spanish fiction, Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Adventure fiction
Title: Captain of the Sleepers
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mayra MonteroOriginal work: El capitán de los dormidos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 181 pp.
ISBN: 0374118825
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For fifty years Andres Yasin has held a grudge against J.T. Bunker for an alleged affair with Andres' mother. Will the truth finally come out after all these years?
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Erotic fiction, Romans
Title: Captain of the Sleepers
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mayra MonteroOriginal work: El capitán de los dormidos
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 181 pp.
ISBN: 9780312425432
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For fifty years, Andres Yasin has carried a grudge against J.T. Bunker. Now, Bunker, eighty-two years old and dying of cancer, wants to tell his side of a story, a story of his affair with Andres's mother. As a child Andres knew… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Erotic fiction, Romans© 2025 - Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos