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: His Name Was Death
Translator(s): Kit Schluter
Author: Rafael Bernal
Original work: Su nombre era muerte
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9780811230834
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut. His neighbors, a clan of the Lacodón tribe… read more

Title: His Only Son : With Doña Berta
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Leopoldo Alas
Original work: Su único hijo
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 318 pp.
ISBN: 9781681370187
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain, Leopoldo Alas employed his satirical talent to powerful and humorous effect in fiction as well. In His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, a romantic flautist by… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: Hitler in Central America : A Non-Kosher Story from the Tropics
Author: Jacobo Schifter Sikora Pagos de polaco amores y traiciones en los años del nazismo
Original work: Pagos de polaco : amores y traiciones en los años del nazismo
Publisher: Authors Choice Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 418 pp.
ISBN: 9780595172610
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel about Hitler's persecution of Polish Jews all the way to Central America, and how they fought against his plans for their destruction. The novel also reveals these immigrant's internal struggles for their personal… read more

Title: Home Reading Service
Translator(s): Curtis Bauer
Author: Fabio Morábito
Original work: El lector a domicilio
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 223 pp.
ISBN: 9781635420722
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the English-language debut novel of one of Mexico's most poignant writers, a man guilty of a minor offense finds himself caught between the tedium of his temperate city and the growing menace of crime there. After an accident-… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Homeland
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Fernando Aramburu
Original work: Patria
Publisher: Vintage Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 591 pp.
ISBN: 9780593310892
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Here is the story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology and violence of the terrorist group ETA (Basque Homeland and Liberty), from the unrelentingly grim 1980s to October 2011… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction

Title: Homeland
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Fernando Aramburu
Original work: Patria
Publisher: Picador
City: London
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 608 pp.
ISBN: 9781509858026
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An epic and heartbreaking story of two best friends whose families are divided by the conflicting loyalties of terrorism.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction

Title: Homeland
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Fernando Aramburu
Original work: Patria
Publisher: Pantheon Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 590 pp.
ISBN: 9781524747121
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Here is the story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology and violence of the terrorist group ETA (Basque Homeland and Liberty), from the unrelentingly grim 1980s to October 2011… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction

Title: Hopscotch
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Julio Cortázar
Original work: Rayuela
Publisher: Pantheon Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 564 pp.
ISBN: 9780394752846
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an… read more

Title: Hopscotch, Blow-up and other stories, We love Glenda so much and other tales
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa, Paul Blackburn
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 909 pp.
ISBN: 9780375712661
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In time for his centenary: two groundbreaking works from a major figure of world literature, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. With these two books--the "counter-novel" Hopscotch and the short-… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Hot Sur
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: Hot sur
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 439 pp.
ISBN: 9781477827598
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) María Paz is a young Latin American woman who, like many others, has come to America chasing a dream. When she is accused of murdering her husband and sentenced to life behind bars, she must struggle to keep hope alive as she… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction

Title: House of Mist
Translator(s): María Luisa Bombal
Author: María Luisa Bombal
Original work: La última niebla
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 9780374531362
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) House of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young bride struggling with her marriage to an aloof landowner--and the mysteries… read more

Title: How I Became a Nun
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: Cómo me hice monja
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 117 pp.
ISBN: 0811216314
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun, ' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations, Romans

Title: How to Order the Universe
Translator(s): Beth Bryer
Author: María José Ferrada
Original work: Kramp
Publisher: Tin House
City: Portland, OR
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 175 pp.
ISBN: 9781951142308
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A richly imaginative debut, detailing a girl and her father finding their way -and themselves - while they work as traveling hardware salesmen in Pinochet-era Chile, is a rare work of magic and originality. For seven-year-old M,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: María José Ferrada ; translated by Elizabeth Bryer.
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: How to Turn into a Bird
Translator(s): Beth Bryer
Author: María José Ferrada
Original work: El hombre del cartel
Publisher: Tin House
City: Portland, OR
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 216 pp.
ISBN: 9781953534460
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After years of hard work in a factory outside of Santiago, Chile, Ramón accepts a peculiar job: to look after a Coca-Cola billboard located by the highway. And it doesn't take long for Ramón to make an even more peculiar decision… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Novels, Romans

Title: Human Matter : A Fiction
Translator(s): Eduardo Aparicio
Author: Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Original work: El material humano
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 175 pp.
ISBN: 9781477316467
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) More than a decade ago, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa made his first visit to the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Police, where millions of previously hidden records were being cataloged, scanned, and eventually… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Historical fiction

Title: Human Sacrifices
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: María Fernanda Ampuero
Original work: Sacrificios humanos
Publisher: The Feminist Press, at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 130 pp.
ISBN: 9781558612983
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Human Sacrifices is a short story collection by Ecuadorian author María Fernanda Ampuero that explores the horrors of inequality, exploitation, marginalization, and violence against working-class women and children under… read more
Literary Genre: Horror tales, Short stories, Fiction, Translations, Horror fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Humiliation : Stories
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Paulina Flores
Publisher: Catapult
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 257 pp.
ISBN: 9781948226240
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The nine mesmerizing stories in Humiliation, translated from the Spanish by Man Booker International Prize finalist Megan McDowell, present us with a Chile we seldom see in fiction: port cities marked by poverty and brimming with… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Hunting the Last Wild Man
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Angela Vallvey
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 190 pp.
ISBN: 9781583224885
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Candela lives in a house of women nine to be exact: six sisters, their mother, their grandmother, and their rich aunt Mary, who owns the house. Candela has had her disappointments in love and floats from one job to another before… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Hurricane Season
Translator(s): Sophie Elizabeth Hughes
Author: Fernanda Melchor
Original work: Temporada de huracanes
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 9780811228039
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Dystopias

Title: Hypothermia
Translator(s): Brendan Riley
Author: Alvaro Enrigue
Original work: Hipotermia
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 9781564788733
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills… read more