TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
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Translations
Title: Doña Luz
Translator(s): Kenneth Evan Barger
Author: Juan ValeraOriginal work: Doña Luz
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 202 pp.
ISBN: 9781611090024
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Doña Luz must abandon her aristocratic life in nineteenth-century Madrid and begin anew in rural Andalusia. What she cannot leave behind is her history: an illegitimate birth that defines who she is and what her future holds.… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Translations, Romans
Title: Down the Rabbit Hole
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Juan Pablo VillalobosOriginal work: Fiesta en la madriguera
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 75 pp.
ISBN: 9780374143350
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers. Down the… read more
Title: Down the Rabbit Hole
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Juan Pablo VillalobosOriginal work: Fiesta en la madriguera
Publisher: And Other Stories
City: High Wycombe
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 74 pp.
ISBN: 9781908276001
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers. Down the… read more
Title: Dream of Reason
Translator(s): Carol Maier
Author: Rosa ChacelOriginal work: Sinrazón
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 656 pp.
ISBN: 9780803214736
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) This meditative novel, grounded in the thinking of Spain's great modern philosopher Ortega y Gasset, unfolds as the journal of a bourgeois chemist who makes his way in Buenos Aires just before and during the Spanish… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Rosa Chacel ; translated by Carol Maier.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Romans
Title: Dreaming of the Delta
Translator(s): Rhonda Lee Dahl Buchanan
Author: Perla SuezOriginal work: La pasajera
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
City: Lubbock, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 9780896728981
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Argentine novel set during the Proceso de reorganización nacional; an experimental thriller that focuses on secrecy, betrayal, and violence and reflects the national struggle for power and control through the servants in a… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, History, Political fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Sergio Gabriel Waisman, Francine Masiello
Author: Juana Manuela GorritiOriginal work: Sueños y realidades
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 0195117379
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Dreams and Realities offers a sampling of Gorriti's stories, showing the range of her commitment to political fiction drawn in the romantic style. Originally published in four volumes under the titles Sueños y realidades and… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles
Title: Dublinesque
Translator(s): Anne McLean, Rosalind Harvey
Author: Enrique Vila-MatasOriginal work: Dublinesca
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219617
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inspired by a dream, a retired publisher spontaneously embarks on a trip to the Dublin cemetery in which a character from Joyce's "Ulysses" was buried, where he meets a mysterious person who resembles Samuel Beckett.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- 21st century -- translations into english, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Title: E-mail For Lovers
Translator(s): Beatriz Salcedo-Strumpf
Author: Beatriz Salcedo-StrumpfOriginal work: Correo electrónico para amantes
Publisher: Author House
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9781418425609
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Played out against the background of today's instant communication via internet, this a story of a woman who comes face to face with emotional and cultural questions when a chance meeting with a lover from her past reopens… read more
Title: Eartheater
Translator(s): Julia Sanches
Author: Dolores ReyesOriginal work: Cometierra
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 9780062987730
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth - a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt,… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Fiction, Magic realist fiction, Novels, Literary fiction
Title: Eight Novellas
Translator(s): Herlinda Charpentier Saitz, Robert L. Saitz
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Peter Lang
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 261 pp.
ISBN: 9780820474359
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The eight novellas collected in this book display the humor, exuberant spirit, love of language, and insight of the Spanish writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna, a central figure in the European and Latin American avant-garde, and a… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Maite Zubiaurre, Luis Cuesta
Author: Eduardo López BagoOriginal work: El cura : caso de incesto: novela médico-social
Publisher: Stockcero
City: Doral, FL
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 169 pp.
ISBN: 9781934768648
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) El Cura. (Caso de Incesto) Novela medico social (The Priest. Case of Incest. Medical-Social Novel) (1885) constitutes, together with La Regenta (1884-1885) by Leopoldo Alas, a.k.a. Clarin, one of the best Spanish examples of… read more
Title: El Filibusterismo
Translator(s): Harold Augenbraum
Author: José RizalOriginal work: El filibusterismo
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 339 pp.
ISBN: 9780143106395
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) José Rizal was one of the leading champions of Filipino nationalism and independence. His masterpiece, Noli Me Tangere, is widely considered to be the foundational novel of the Philippines. In this riveting continuation,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: José Rizal ; translated [from the Spanish] with an introduction and notes by Harold Augenbraum.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): María Soledad Lacson-Locsin
Author: José RizalOriginal work: El filibusterismo
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
City: Honolulu, HI
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 9780824831189
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Published in Ghent in 1891, this work is translated into English, German, French, Japanese, Tagalog, Ilonggo, and other languages. A nationalist novel by an author who has been called ""the first Filipino,"" its nature as a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Ronald J. Christ, Sheridan Phillips
Author: Ignacio Manuel AltamiranoOriginal work: El zarco
Publisher: Lumen Books, MN
City: Santa Fe, NM
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 231 pp.
ISBN: 9780930829612
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Zarco the Blue-eyed Bandit (1901) by the Mexican nationalist Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1843–1893) is one of the earliest Latin American novels written by an Indian. Altamirano, whose childhood language was Nahuatl, received… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Romans
Title: Ema, the Captive
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César AiraOriginal work: Ema, la cautiva
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 231 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219105
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction
Title: Empire of Dreams
Translator(s): Tess O'Dwyer
Author: Giannina BraschiOriginal work: El imperio de los sueños
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 200 pp.
ISBN: 9781611090659
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the Hispanic American classic Empire of Dreams, Giannina Braschi calls for a revolution in poetry--a revolution against the Latin American Boom. New York City becomes the site of liberation for its marginal characters who seek… read more
Title: Empty Set
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Verónica Gerber BicecciOriginal work: Conjunto vacío
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895002
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Veronica Gerber writes with a luminous intimacy; her novel is clever, vibrant, moving, profoundly original. Reading it made me feel as if the world had been rebuilt."--Francisco Goldman "From the very beginning, Veronica Gerber… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, General info: other format available: print version:; gerber bicecci, verónica, 1981-; conjunto vacío english; empty set; minneapolis : coffee house press, 2018
Title: Empty Words
Translator(s): Annie McDermott
Author: Mario LevreroOriginal work: El discurso vacío
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 122 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895545
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A writer begins keeping a notebook of handwriting exercises hoping that, if he is able to improve his penmanship, his character will improve too. What begins as a mere physical exercise is filled involuntarily with reflections… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Title: En la ocho y la doce
Translator(s): Roberto G. Fernández
Author: Roberto G. FernándezOriginal work: En la ocho y la doce
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 190 pp.
ISBN: 0618000216 9780618000210
Summary/Reviews: () An excellent addition to intermediate or advanced-level Spanish language or literature courses, En la Ocho y la Doce is a collection of microfictions and longer stories that present diverse perspectives on the experience of Cuban… read more
Literary Genre: Cuban fiction
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: José Manuel Prieto GonzálezOriginal work: Enciclopedia de una vida en Rusia
Publisher: Black Cat
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9780802120779
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Thelonius Monk (not his real name) travels to Russia and meets Linda Evangelista (not her real name) in Saint Petersburg. They journey to Yalta, where he promises that he will make her red hair famous in the fashion magazines.… read more
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