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: Frigid Tales
Translator(s): Dick Cluster
Author: Pedro de Jesús
Original work: Cuentos frígidos
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 105 pp.
ISBN: 0872863999
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Playing opportunely with realism and fiction, the sensational young Cuban writer Pedro de Jesus interlinks six stories in an inventive narrative of psychological darkness and sexual intricacy. In this tour de force of… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Gay fiction, Erotic fiction, Gay erotic fiction, Nouvelles

Title: From Afar Forever
Translator(s): Elisabeth Jezierski
Author: Nicolás Mihovilovic R.
Original work: Desde lejos para siempre
Publisher: Mirta Mihovilović
City: Chapel Hill, NC
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 255 pp.
ISBN: 9780615256122

Title: From the Shadows
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead, Daniel Hahn
Author: Juan José Millás García
Original work: Desde la sombra
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9781942658665
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Laid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antiques market, he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Frontera Dreams
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
City: El Paso, TX
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 9780938317586
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The sweetheart of Hector Belascoaran Shayne's adolescence - the same one who's become a famous Mexican movie star - has disappeared into the magical reality of the U.S./Mexico border. Hector wanders la frontera looking for her.… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Galatea : A Pastoral Romance
Translator(s): Gordon Willoughby James Gyll
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: Los seis libros de Galatea
Publisher: Nabu Press
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 349 pp.
ISBN: 9781149199855
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were… read more

Title: Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English
Translator(s): Alma Flor Ada
Author: Alma Flor Ada
Original work: Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
ISBN: 9780613443890
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A book of poems about working in the fields and nature's bounty, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet. Illustrated by Simón Silva.

Title: Gesell Dome
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Guillermo Saccomanno
Original work: Cámara Gesell
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 616 pp.
ISBN: 9781940953380
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Winner of the 2013 Dashiell Hammett Prize--Through a skillful weaving of characters and plotlines, coming together like a completed puzzle, Saccomanno has crafted a monumental novel where individual stories… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Noir fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: Ghosts
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: Los fantasmas
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 139 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217422
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ghosts revolves around an immigrant worker's family squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their wives and children see the ghosts, who literally hang around the place… read more
Literary Genre: Ghost stories, Fiction, Histoires de fantômes

Title: God's Spy
Translator(s): James Graham
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: Espía de Dios
Publisher: Dutton
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780525949947
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the aftermath of the pope's death, police inspector Paola Dicanti is called in to investigate the brutal murders of two cardinals, assisted by American priest and former Army intelligence officer Anthony Fowler.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: Golpes Bajos : Instantáneas = Low Blows : Snapshots
Original work: Golpes bajos : (instantáneas)
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9780299216009
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In these short, bilingual stories set in Buenos Aires (with each piece appearing in Spanish and English on facing pages), Alicia Borinsky provides unique glimpses into the lives of the city's inhabitants: its businessmen and… read more

Title: Good Offices
Translator(s): Anne McLean, Anna Milsom
Author: Evelio Rosero
Original work: Almuerzos
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 119 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219303
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tancredo, a young hunchback, observes and participates in the rites at the Catholic church where he lives under the care of Father Almida. Also in residence are the sexton Celeste Machado, his goddaughter Sabina Cruz, and three… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Evelio Rosero ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Anna Milsom.
Literary Genre: Satirical literature, Satire, Fiction

Title: Guardianes Del Secreto = Guardians of the Secret : 1989-1999
Translator(s): Rosa Alcalá
Author: Lila Zemborain
Original work: Guardianes del secreto
Publisher: Noemi Press
City: Las Cruces, NM
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 81 pp.
ISBN: 9781934819050
Literary Genre: Poetry, Poésie

Title: Guilty of dancing the chachacha
Translator(s): Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Original work: Delito por bailar el chachachá
Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 109 pp.
ISBN: 1566491878 9781566491877
Summary/Reviews: () Like the rhythm of the chachacha, the three short stories in this collection are marked by repetition and contrast. They all begin with the same scene, but each is the genesis of a different love story corresponding to three distinct… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories

Title: Gunter's Winter
Publisher: P. Lang
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 0820445894
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A well-connected lawyer and his deranged wife die in a mysterious fire. Their fate, however, is much more than material for a whodunit. Murder, dictatorship, love, eroticism, torture, and the healing power of art:… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Manuel Marcos ; translated by Tracy Karl Lewis.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Hand to Hand : Mano a Mano, Gringo Chicano
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Rudy Tenes
Original work: Hand to hand : mano a mano, gringo chicano
Publisher: Publishamerica Inc.
City: Baltimore, MD
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 289 pp.
ISBN: 9781448928651

Title: Happy Families : Stories
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Todas las familias felices
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 331 pp.
ISBN: 9781588368140
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In these masterly vignettes, Fuentes explores Tolstoy's classic observation that "happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In "A Family Like Any Other," each member of the Pagan family lives… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, mexican, Short stories, Fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Harsh Times
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: Tiempos recios
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 288 pp.
ISBN: 9780374601232
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it" -- Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Political fiction, Fiction / literary, Fiction / political, Fiction / historical / general, Fiction, History

Title: Havana is a Really Big City : and Other Short Stories
Translator(s): Sara E. Cooper
Author: Mirta Yáñez
Original work: La Habana es una ciudad bien grande
Publisher: Cubanabooks
City: Chico, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 98 pp.
ISBN: 9780982786000
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) These humorous and poignant stories that illustrate everyday life in contemporary Havana will challenge the reader's assumptions about the Cuban reality. Mirta Yanez is a Havana-born poet, novelist, critic, and extraordinary… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Havana Noir
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 314 pp.
ISBN: 9781933354385
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of stories by current and former residents of Havana that relate tales of ambiguous moralities, collective cruelty, and the damage incurred by self-preservation at all costs.Contents:     … read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: He walked in and sat down, and other stories
Translator(s): Rosaura Sánchez, Beatrice Pita
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2000
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 0826322131
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of seventeen short stories, presented in Spanish and English, that examine the lives of Chicano men and women in the contemporary United States.Contents:He walked in and sat down -- Entró y se sentó -- Road detours… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english