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

Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Jazmina Barrera Velázquez
Original work: Punto de cruz
Publisher: Two Lines Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 255 pp.
ISBN: 9781949641530
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Then: It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime. Mila, Citlali, and Dalia, childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the England of The Clash and the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafés and crushes, but… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Romans
Title: Cruz
Translator(s): Mallory N. Craig-Kuhn
Author: Nicolás Ferraro
Original work: Cruz
Publisher: Soho Crime, Soho Press, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 300 pp.
ISBN: 9781641293969
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tomas Cruz swore he would never be like his father, an abusive cocaine junky whose gangland exploits are notorious throughout the underbelly of northern Argentina. When Samuel Cruz is sentenced to thirteen years in prison, he… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Ann Louise Bardach
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 234 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513115
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Travel to Cuba in the company of its finest writers and gain an understanding of its remarkable mystique. The twenty-one stories in this collection some of which appear in English for the first time will take you on an odyssey… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Hillary Gulley
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: OR Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9781939293480
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Think Cuba, you're likely to think bearded revolutionaries in fatigues. Salsa. Sugar cane. Rock 'n' roll, zombies, drugs -- anomie and angst -- do not generally figure in our mental images of a country that's assumed an outsized… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Cubanito!
Translator(s): Ralph Rewes
Author: Frank Rodríguez , Ralph Rewes
Publisher: Lulu Press
City: Morrisville, NC
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 157 pp.
ISBN: 9781411608603
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The tragicomical misadventures of an opinionated Cuban youth on a bi-cultural quicksand path in search for missing principles and spiritual values. Satirical, irreverently shocking and outrageously funny!
Translator(s): Kal Wagenheim
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
City: Princeton
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9781558764781
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A bilingual anthology of twelve short stories, many of which appeared in the 1960s in the English-language magazine "The San Juan Review". Written by six of Puerto Rico's leading writers, it has themes that vary in time from the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Noé O. Vaca
Author: Juan León Mera
Original work: Cumandá
Publisher: AuthorHouse
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 178 pp.
ISBN: 9781434326003
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Indian revolts in the province of Chimborazo Ecuador destroyed the family and goods of the rancher Juan Domingo Orosco, as revenge for the maltreatment and abuse of the savages. After this unfortunate event, Orosco converted… read more
Translator(s): Noé O. Vaca
Author: Juan León Mera
Original work: Cumandá
Publisher: AuthorHouse
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 196 pp.
ISBN: 9781434325990
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Indian revolts in the province of Chimborazo Ecuador destroyed the family and goods of the rancher Juan Domingo Orosco, as revenge for the maltreatment and abuse of the savages. After this unfortunate event, Orosco converted… read more
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: José Donoso
Original work: La desesperanza
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
City: New Brunswick, NJ
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 430 pp.
ISBN: 9781412812528
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away, and various factions are rallying to turn the event to their advantage: for… read more
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: José Donoso
Original work: La desesperanza
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
City: New Brunswick, NJ
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 430 pp.
ISBN: 1560004509
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) By the author of "The Obscene Bird of the Night", "Sacred Families" and "A House in the Country", this is a story of the tragic love between an upper-middle-class radical woman and her lover who has returned after a career as a… read more
Translator(s): Diamela Eltit
Author: Diamela Eltit
Original work: Los vigilantes
Publisher: Lumen
City: Santa Fe, NM
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 104 pp.
ISBN: 9780930829568
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mayra Montero
Original work: Son de Almendra
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 264 pp.
ISBN: 0374102775
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the Publisher: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Dust jackets (binding), Novels
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mayra Montero
Original work: Son de Almendra
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 264 pp.
ISBN: 9780312426736
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Havana, 1957. On the same day that the mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story,… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Dust jackets (binding), Novels
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 336 pp.
ISBN: 9780307950741
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its "… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 336 pp.
ISBN: 0811214664
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Javier Marias begins Dark Back of Time with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marias swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"--The real-life… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen.
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Roy Kesey
Author: Pola Oloixarac
Publisher: Soho Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 202 pp.
ISBN: 9781616959234
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century wave of scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruunis researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction / literary, Novels, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Susan E Clark
Author: Luisa Valenzuela
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, Ill.
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 266 pp.
ISBN: 9781564786319
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents the "apocryphal autobiography" of author Luisa Valenzuela, who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from the ten years she lived in New York City, exploring her "dark desires," and discussing sexual fulfillment, human… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Luisa Valenzuela ; translated by Susan E. Clark.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Patrick G. Blaine
Author: Ramón Díaz Eterović
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 9781542046916
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can't… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Alex Woodend
Author: Fernando Gamboa
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 532 pp.
ISBN: 9781503936003
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Hija de la fortuna
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 399 pp.
ISBN: 9780060194918
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