On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Title: Daughter of Fortune
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Hija de la fortuna
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 399 pp.
ISBN: 9781417755943
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Literary Genre: Adventure fiction, History

Title: Daughter of Silence
Translator(s): Darrell B. Lockhart
Author: Manuela Fingueret
Original work: Hija del silencio
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
City: Lubbock, TX
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 158 pp.
ISBN: 9780896727311
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel intertwining the voices of a mother and her daughter--women shaped and separated by violent historical moments--revealing unspoken parallels between the Holocaust and Argentina's "Dirty War".
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Day of the Dead = El Dia de los Muertos
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Maria Van den Broeke, Mark Van den Broeke
Original work: Day of the dead = El día de los muertos
Publisher: Publish America
City: Baltimore, MD
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 181 pp.
ISBN: 9781607037163
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The main character, Manuel, narrates how he resorted to brujeria—folk magic—to change his fate, or so he believes. The spell goes bad, reasons Manuel, when his mother’s life becomes endangered because he allowed her to become… read more

Title: Dead Moon
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Luis Royo
Original work: Dead moon
Publisher: Heavy Metal
City: Rockville Centre, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 123 pp.
ISBN: 9781935351139
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) An epic story that renews the story of Romeo & Juliet, set in a fantastic city controlled by two castles. In one of them,reules a suggestive and refined world of women, in the other one, a world of men who passion is war.… read more

Title: Dear First Love
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Zoé Valdés
Original work: Querido primer novio
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 0060199725
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One of Cuba's most imaginative young writers presents this tale of one woman's spiritual and sexual reawakening, and a devastating portrayal of the Castro regime. In sensuous language, Valds renders day-to-day life in both urban… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Dear First Love
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Zoé Valdés
Original work: Querido primer novio
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 9780060959098
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The numbing rhythm of daily life in poverty-stricken Havana had deadened Danae's mind and spirit. In search of her first true love, Danae returns to the countryside of her adolescence, where the government of Fidel Castro had… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Dear Rafe = Mi Querido Rafa
Translator(s): Rolando Hinojosa
Author: Rolando Hinojosa
Original work: Mi querido Rafa
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 255 pp.
ISBN: 9781558854567
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Available for the first time in a bilingual format, this addition to the Hinojosa's acclaimed Klail City Death Trap Series focuses on wealthy ranchers and their domination of the economic and political life of a small city on… read more

Title: Death As a Side Effect
Author: Ana María Shua
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 9780803228078
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Ernesto, a man in a dystopic future Argentina, struggles to save his dying father from falling victim to the diabolical health-care system, only to learn that everyone is a patient. "In Death as a Side Effect, Ana… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Ana María Shua ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Literary Genre: Dystopias, Science fiction, Fiction

Title: Death in the Andes
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 275 pp.
ISBN: 9780312427252
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás have been dispatched to investigate, and to guard the town from the Shining Path guerrillas they assume are responsible.… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Suspense fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Mystery fiction

Title: Death in Veracruz
Translator(s): Chandler Thompson
Author: Héctor Aguilar Camín
Original work: Morir en el Golfo
Publisher: Schaffner Press
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 297 pp.
ISBN: 9781936182923
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This novel marks the long-awaited arrival in English of a masterful voice in Mexican and noir fiction "Death in Veracruz "is a gritty and atmospheric noir centered on the so-called oil wars of the late 1970s, which pitted the… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Mystery fiction, Suspense fiction, Noir fiction

Title: Death Rites
Translator(s): Jonathan Dunne
Author: Alicia Giménez Bartlett
Original work: Ritos de muerte
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 300 pp.
ISBN: 9781933372549
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Petra Delicado, a Barcelona police inspector assigned to a desk job, returns to the homicide department to investigate the rapes of young girls by a serial rapist who only leaves a circular mark on his victims' forearms.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Deep Purple
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mayra Montero
Original work: Púrpura profundo
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 0060938218
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Distinguished music critic Agustin Caban has written for a San Juan newspaper all his life. Forced to retire, he continues to haunt its offices, encouraged by his former editor. Agustin is writing his memoirs, and his editor… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Deep Rivers
Translator(s): Frances Horning Barraclough
Author: José María Arguedas
Original work: Los ríos profundos
Publisher: Waveland Press
City: Prospect Heights, IL
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 9781577662440
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) José María Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural surroundings, and he ranks among the greatest writers of any time and place. He saw the beauty of the Peruvian landscape, as well… read more

Title: Delirium
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: Delirio
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 320 pp.
ISBN: 0385519907
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Restrepo delves into the minds of four characters.… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: Delirium
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: Delirio
Publisher: Vintage Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 320 pp.
ISBN: 9780307278043
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Restrepo delves into the minds of four characters.… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: Demerol : Without Expiration Date
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Mario Bellatin
Original work: El baño de Frida Kahlo
Publisher: Editorial RM
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2008
ISBN: 9786077515029

Title: Desire and Its Shadow
Translator(s): Jay Miskowiec
Author: Ana Clavel
Original work: Los deseos y su sombra
Publisher: Aliform Pub.
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 231 pp.
ISBN: 9780970765253
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Soledad awakes to find herself invisible, standing in the middle of Mexico City. Is she really invisible, or have others just stopped seeing her? Prisoner of her passions--to change identity, to be the object of someone's… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, mexican -- translations into english, Fiction, Psychological fiction

Title: Destiny and Desire
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Voluntad y la fortuna
Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 415 pp.
ISBN: 9781400068807
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The severed head of Josuãe Nadal, floating in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Mexico, remembers his life, friends, enemies, and lovers, and his involvement in the drug trade and the corruption frequently encountered in his… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romance fiction

Title: Devoured by the Moon : Selected Poems
Translator(s): Steven J. Stewart
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Hanging Loose
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 9781931236386
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Before his death in 2000, Rafael Perez Estrada was one of contemporary Spain's most imaginative and unique writers. He created a body of work that often defies classification, crafting fantastic realities from myth, fable, and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Dialogue of the Dogs
Translator(s): Lawrence G. Van Velzer, Harriet De Onís
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El coloquio de los perros
Publisher: Foolscap
City: Santa Cruz
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 38 pp.
ISBN: 9780981885322
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The large mastiff Berganza along with his mat-mate Cipión unexpectedly finds himself with the ability to speak. The two dogs have a lot to say and may have only one short night in which to say it, as it is unknown when this gift… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans