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: It's So Difficult
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Raúl Nieto Guridi
Original work: Lo difícil
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9780802855848
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As an overstimulated boy heads to school, he struggles to connect with the world around him.
Literary Genre: Picture books, Juvenile works, Fiction, Livres d'images

Title: Itzalku : The Pipil Saga
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Milton Manrique Juarez
Original work: Itzalku : la saga Pipil
Publisher: Milton Manrique Juarez
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9781530849710
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long gone are the monuments and the traditions of the people. Long gone are the sacrifices and ceremonial offerings to the old gods. Most Mesoamericans have either been killed or enslaved, and Spain owns the land. Now, there are… read more

Title: Jackson Heights Chronicles : When Crossing the Border Isn't Enough
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Orlando Tobón
Original work: Las crónicas de Jackson Heights : cuando no basta cruzar la frontera
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 226 pp.
ISBN: 0743286588
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From his small travel agency tucked away in an area of New York City known as Little Colombia, the "Godfather of Jackson Heights" does far more than make travel arrangements. Fernando Padron is a social service fixer to many of… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Autobiographical fiction

Title: Jacob the Mutant
Translator(s): Jacob Steinberg
Author: Mario Bellatin
Original work: Jacobo reloaded
Publisher: Phoneme Media
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9781939419101
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, Jacob the Mutant is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and owner of a roadside… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction

Title: Jaguars' Tomb
Translator(s): Amalia Gladhart
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Original work: Tumba de jaguares
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
City: Nashville, TN
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 9780826501417
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jaguars' Tomb is a novel in three parts. Part one, "Hidden Variables" by María Celina Igarzábal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author of the second part, "Telling from Zero" ("Contar desde zero") of which… read more

Title: Jail
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Jesús Zárate Moreno
Original work: Cárcel
Publisher: Aliform
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 236 pp.
ISBN: 9780970765239
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In jail, a man loves his innocence with the same absurd force that he fears his crimes. What happens when the innocent is thrown in with the guilty, or the guilty with the innocent? Four unlikely cellmates suddenly find… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Jakarta
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Rodrigo Márquez Tizano
Original work: Yakarta
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895637
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In achaotic city, the latest in a line of viruses advances as a man recounts the fated steps that led him to be confined in a room with his lover while catastrophe looms. As he takes inventory of the city's ills, a strange stone… read more

Title: Jawbone
Translator(s): Sarah Booker
Author: Mónica Ojeda
Original work: Mandíbula
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 264 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896214
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?… read more
Literary Genre: Horror fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Romans

Title: Job-Boj
Translator(s): Monica Ruiz Anderson
Author: Jorge Guzmán
Original work: Job-Boj
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 290 pp.
ISBN: 9781628971651
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Written in alternating voices, Jorge Guzman's JOB BOJ is a captivating novel that explores the progression from melancholy to happiness, or vice versa. The delicate interplay between a light-hearted narrator and a brooding,… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Experimental fiction, Fiction

Title: Juan de la Rosa
Translator(s): Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Author: Nataniel Aguirre
Original work: Juan de la Rosa
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 302 pp.
ISBN: 9780554344720
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's… read more

Title: Juan Martín El Empecinado
Translator(s): Alva Cellini
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Original work: Juan Martín, el Empecinado
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 0773477799
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the first English translation of Galdos's Juan Martin El Empecinado (1874), in the first series of his Empisodios nacionales. This is the only novel in the first series dedicated to a guerilla fighter rather than to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Juan Martín, El Empecinado
Translator(s): Alva Cellini
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Original work: Juan Martín, el Empecinado
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 0773477799
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This is the first English translation of Galdos's Juan Martin El Empecinado (1874), in the first series of his Empisodios nacionales. This is the only novel in the first series dedicated to a guerilla fighter rather than to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Juan the Landless
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Original work: Juan sin tierra
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785275
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This reworked and streamlined version of Goytisolo's 1975 novel spins the reader through an angry, prickly catalogue of Spanish colonialism and slavery.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Juanita La Larga
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Juan Valera
Original work: Juanita la Larga
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
City: Washington, D.C.
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9780813214351
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Juanita la Larga (1896), the third of Juan Valera's eponymous novels with a female protagonist, unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Julia
Translator(s): Sandra Kingery
Author: Ana María Moix
Original work: Julia
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 0803232357
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Through the long hours of one sleepless night, twenty-year-old Julia sorts through the story of her life so far. Set against the backdrop of Franco's forty-year dictatorship, her personal history reveals its own small… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Just Jesus : The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus of Nazareth
Translator(s): Trinidad Ongtangco-Regala
Author: José Ignacio López Vigil, María López Vigil
Original work: Un tal Jesús
Publisher: Crossroad Pub. Co
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 0824518365
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on radio plays, this collection retells the gospel of John, an epic story with several twists and turns. Each chapter includes a reflection offering background information and an understanding of sociology, politics,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Biographical fiction, Christian fiction

Title: Just passing through
Translator(s): Martin Michael Roberts
Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Original work: De paso
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press.
City: El Paso, TX
Year of Publication: 2000
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 173 pp.
ISBN: 0938317474
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In this ... adventure novel set in 1920's post-revolutionary Mexico, Paco Ignacio Taibo II is searching for a hero, specifically a leftist hero, and he thinks he has found him in the person of Sebastian San Vicente. But… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Action and adventure fiction

Title: Kalpa Imperial : The Greatest Empire That Never Was
Translator(s): Ursula K. Le Guin
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Original work: Kalpa imperial
Publisher: Small Beer Press
City: Easthampton, MA
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 1931520054
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel of linked tales tells the story of an imaginary civilization, from its origins as a collection of hunter-gatherer tribes to its zenith as a sophisticated technological empire.
Literary Genre: Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Translations

Title: Kalpa Imperial : The Greatest Empire That Never Was
Translator(s): Ursula K. Le Guin
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Original work: Kalpa imperial
Publisher: Ibooks, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 9781416504115
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel of linked tales tells the story of an imaginary civilization from its origins as a collection of hunter-gatherer tribes to its zenith as a sophisticated technological empire.
Literary Genre: Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Translations

Title: Kamchatka
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Marcelo Figueras
Original work: Kamchatka
Publisher: Atlantic
City: London
Year of Publication: 2011
ISBN: 9781843548270
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, History, Romans