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: Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Perennial Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 9780060751555
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968 by twentieth-century Colombian-born author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Contents:                Leaf storm -- The… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Learning to Lose
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: David Trueba
Original work: Saber perder
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 579 pp.
ISBN: 9781590513224
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) It is Sylvia's sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to begin--not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: David Trueba ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: Learning to Lose
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: David Trueba
Original work: Saber perder
Publisher: Portobello
City: London
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 579 pp.
ISBN: 9781846272059
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Follows four characters through the maze of contemporary Madrid as a combination of a murder, a car crash and secret affair causes their lives to intersect and changes the course of their individual destinies.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: Leaving Tabasco
Translator(s): Geoff Hargreaves
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 0802116841
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's most acclaimed writers, and Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming-of-age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in Agustini, in the Mexican province of Tabasco. Agustini is not an… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carmen Boullosa ; translated from the Spanish by Geoff Hargreaves.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans, Fiction, Fantasy fiction

Title: Lies
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Enrique de Hériz
Original work: Mentira
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 415 pp.
ISBN: 0385517947
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An intricately wrought, multilayered novel, "Lies" ranges from the present to deep in the past. Told through two narratives, the stories are both brutal and exciting. Together these stories illuminate the importance of… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: Life is a Dream
Translator(s): Gregary Joseph Racz
Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Original work: La vida es sueño
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 123 pp.
ISBN: 9780143104827
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Like a Fading Shadow
Translator(s): Camilo A. Ramirez
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Original work: Como la sombra que se va
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 312 pp.
ISBN: 9780374126902
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A hypnotic novel intertwining the author's past with James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after shooting Martin Luther King Jr"-- 1968. After shooting Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray has evaded authorities, driven to… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction

Title: Like Flies from Afar
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Enrique Ferrari
Original work: Que de lejos parecen moscas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9780374239947
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Luis Machi is an Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society. He has a cocaine habit, a collection of three hundred ties, ten million dollars in the bank, and a bloody corpse in… read more
Literary Genre: Black humor, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Argentine fiction -- translations into english, Humour noir

Title: Lilus Kikus and Other Stories
Translator(s): Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 127 pp.
ISBN: 9780826335821
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lilus Kikus, was erroneously first labeled a children's book because it had a young girl as protagonist, it included illustrations, and the author was an unknown woman. Accompanying Lilus Kikus in this first American edition are… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Little Eyes
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Samanta Schweblin
Original work: Kentukis
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9780525541363
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of… read more
Literary Genre: Dystopian fiction, Fiction, Horror fiction, Science fiction, Dystopias

Title: Little Indiscretions
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Carmen de Posadas
Original work: Pequeñas infamias
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 305 pp.
ISBN: 0375508856
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When pastry chef Nestor Chaffino turns up dead at a party at the mansion of art dealer Ernesto Teldi, the party guests all become suspects in the crime when it turns out that Nestor was threatening to reveal some dark secrets.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Humorous fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: Little Indiscretions (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Carmen de Posadas
Original work: Pequeñas infamias
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 408 pp.
ISBN: 0786260920
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When a pastry chef is found dead in a walk-in freezer in the midst of a party he's catering, there is no shortage of suspects.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Humorous fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: Lord of All the Dead
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Original work: El monarca de las sombras
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 269 pp.
ISBN: 9780525520900
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire… read more
Literary Genre: Nonfiction novels, Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, History, Romans documentaires

Title: Love in the Time of Cholera
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: El amor en los tiempos del cólera
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 348 pp.
ISBN: 9781400034680
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Love stories, Fiction, Movie novels

Title: Love in the Time of Cholera
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: El amor en los tiempos del cólera
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 348 pp.
ISBN: 0965018936
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, this is a story about a woman and two men and their entwined lives. From the author of the legendary One Hundred Years of Solitude.  
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Love stories, Fiction, Movie novels

Title: Love in the Time of Cholera
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: El amor en los tiempos del cólera
Publisher: Vintage
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 348 pp.
ISBN: 9780307387141
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal to depart from routine.
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Love stories, Fiction, Movie novels

Title: Love in the Time of Cholera (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: El amor en los tiempos del cólera
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 529 pp.
ISBN: 9780739328057
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years. 
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Love stories, Fiction, Movie novels

Title: Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Los amantes de Todos los Santos
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9781594634260
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vasquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: Loves That Bind
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Julián Ríos
Original work: Amores que atan
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 243 pp.
ISBN: 0375700609
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A man abandoned by his lover writes a letter about each of the 26 women he loved before this woman.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Lucas Guevara
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Alirio Díaz Guerra
Original work: Lucas Guevara
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 311 pp.
ISBN: 9781558853256
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Lucas Guevara is the first Spanish-language novel of immigration to the United States. Published in the United States in 1914 by Colombian emigre Diaz Guerra, the novel establishes the structure and formula that numerous other… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction