TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
Observatorio Instituto Cervantes - Harvard University
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Title: A Cock-Eyed Comedy : Starring Friar Bugeo Montesino and Other Faeries of Motley Feather and Fortune
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 173 pp.
ISBN: 9780872864504
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In A Cock-Eyed Comedy, Father Trennes is like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, a spirit of the age moving through several centuries of Spain’s history. His most recent incarnation is as an Opus Dei religious leader in present-day… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: A Distant Father
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Antonio SkármetaOriginal work: Padre de película
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 97 pp.
ISBN: 9781590516256
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jacques is a schoolteacher in a small Chilean village, and a French translator for the local paper. He owes his passion for the French language to his Parisian father, Pierre, who, one year before, abruptly returned to France… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Antonio Skármeta ; translated from the Spanish by John Cullen.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 547 pp.
ISBN: 9781939810465
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mario Vargas Llosa referred to Juan Carlos Onetti as "one of the great modern writers, not only in Latin America." A hero to the likes of Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez and a vital forbearer to magical realism, Onetti won the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Thomas Shelton
Author: Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraPublisher: A.G. Lo Ré
City: [Chapel Hill]
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 614 pp.
Summary/Reviews: () Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: [translated by] Thomas Shelton, part I and Leonard Digges, part II ; compiled and with an introduction by Anthony G. Lo Ré.
Literary Genre: Picaresque literature, Action and adventure fiction, Picaresque fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction, Romans picaresques
Title: A Heart So White
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier MaríasPublisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 9780811215053
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction
Title: A Heart So White
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier MaríasPublisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 9780811214520
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Newly married Juan Ranz digs into his family's troubled past beginning with the suicide of his father's first wife, Juan's aunt, and finds parallels in his relationships marked by miscommunication and the need for human contact.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction
Title: A History of Money
Translator(s): Ellie Robins
Author: Alan PaulsOriginal work: Historia del dinero
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn ; London
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 9781612194233
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The hero of this novel is obsessed with money. His father makes money in poker games and casinos. His mother marries again and squanders her small inherited fortune. A novel of hardcore economics where the sex was replaced with… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Title: A little lumpen novelita
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto BolañoOriginal work: Una novelita lumpen
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 109 pp.
ISBN: 9780811223355
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime' so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager--'our… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Romans
Title: A Long Petal of the Sea
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson
Author: Isabel AllendeOriginal work: Largo pétalo de mar
Publisher: Ballantine Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 318 pp.
ISBN: 9781984820150
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border.… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Romance fiction, Novels, Fiction, History, Romans
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson
Author: Isabel AllendeOriginal work: Largo pétalo de mar
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 420 pp.
ISBN: 9780593172056
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border.… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Romance fiction, Novels, Fiction, History, Romans
Title: A Manuscript of Ashes
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Antonio Muñoz MolinaOriginal work: Beatus Ille
Publisher: Harcourt
City: Orlando, FL
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 305 pp.
ISBN: 9780151014101
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seeking refuge from the police during the last days of Franco's rule, Minaya moves into his uncle's country estate and stumbles upon a dark secrets involving an old poet, his uncle, and the death of the woman they both had loved.
Literary Genre: Novels, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Bradley Warren Davis
Author: Benito Pastoriza IyodoOriginal work: A Matter of Men = Cuestión de hombres
Publisher: Xlibris Corp.
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 168 pp.
ISBN: 9781436360302
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Matter of Men weaves a multi-textured tapestry of the events, challenges and preconceptions that shape the definition of manhood: from the ritual of a boy coming of age to the youth who discovers the challenges of the adult… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish language materials -- bilingual, Fiction, Short stories
Title: A Million Drops
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Víctor del ÁrbolOriginal work: Un millón de gotas
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 629 pp.
ISBN: 9781590518458
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gonzalo Gil is a lawyer stuck in a disaffected life, in a failed career, trying to dodge the constant manipulation of his powerful father. This monotonous existence is shaken up when he learns, after years without news of his… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Suspense fiction, Fiction
Title: A Mystical Journey
Translator(s): Seymour Menton
Author: Angelina Muñiz-HubermanOriginal work: Tierra adentro
Publisher: Gaon Books
City: Santa Fe, NM
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781935604235
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Angelina Muñiz-Huberman's historical novel, A Mystical Journey, combines poetic prose and an improbable happy ending. Within the structure of the archetypal journey of the hero, a Jewish teenager in late sixteenth-century Spain… read more
Literary Genre: Jewish fiction, Mexican fiction, Fiction, History, Bildungsromans, Historical fiction
Translator(s): Michael B. Miller
Author: Manlio ArguetaOriginal work: Milagro de la paz
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, Conn.
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 1880684683
Summary/Reviews: (Page 4 of cover) Tells the story of the courage and strength of a single mother and her daughters, who persevere in the face of loss.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction
Title: A Secret for Julia
Translator(s): Asa Zatz
Publisher: Norton
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 249 pp.
ISBN: 0393050440
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Argentine writer Mercedes Beecher is living in self-imposed exile in London with her teenaged daughter when the horrors of her past catch up with her.
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Patricia Sagastizábal ; translated by Asa Zatz.
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, History
Title: A Single, Numberless Death
Translator(s): Nora Strejilevich
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1176 pp.
ISBN: 081392474
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nora Strejilevich was a young woman when her brother and other family members and friends disappeared at the hands of the military junta that held power in Argentina from 1976 to 1983. Ostensibly part of a systematic campaign to… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Nora Strejilevich ; translated from the Spanish by Cristina de la Torre with the collaboration of the author.
Title: A Tale of the Dispossessed
Translator(s): Dolores M. Koch
Author: Laura RestrepoOriginal work: Multitud errante
Publisher: Ecco
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 006072370
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In the midst of war, the protagonists of A Tale of the Dispossessed are continuously searching: for a promised land, a destiny, the face of a woman who has disappeared - searching for an impossible love and, conversely, for a… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Title: A Tale of Two Lions
Translator(s): Jasper Reid
Author: Roberto RansomOriginal work: Historia de dos leones
Publisher: Norton
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 0393329364
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "My Dear Sister, I'm writing to warn you: Cattino - the cat who is soon to arrive at your house with my wife - is really a lion," laments Lorenzaccio, the Italian count. Refined, elegant, suave, and cunningly masquerading as… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Romans
Title: A Thousand Deaths Plus One
Translator(s): Leland H. Chambers
Author: Sergio RamírezOriginal work: Mil y una muertes
Publisher: McPherson & Co.
City: Kingston, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 295 pp.
ISBN: 9780929701875
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In 1987, while on a state visit to Warsaw, the author happened upon an exhibition of remarkable works by a hitherto unknown Nicaraguan photographer, Juan Castellan, who plied his craft in Europe between roughly 1880 and 1940.… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Romans© 2024 - Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos