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: Puppet : A Chicano Novella
Translator(s): Barbara D. Riess, Trino Sandoval
Author: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas
Original work: Puppet
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN: 082632228X
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET)  "Puppet is a complex, challenging, and ultimately compelling narrative. Revolving around the Chicano movement of the 1970s and 1980s, it tells the story of the murder of Puppet and the subsequent police cover-up. Just as… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Purgatory
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Tomás Eloy Martínez
Original work: Purgatorio
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 273 pp.
ISBN: 9781608197118
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) Simón Cardoso had been dead thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, spotted him at lunchtime in the lounge bar in Trudy Tuesday. So begins Purgatory. Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, vanished during a trip to map an… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Tomás Eloy Martínez ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: Purity of Blood
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Limpieza de sangre
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 267 pp.
ISBN: 0452287987
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Captain Alatriste attempts to rescue the daughter of a friend from a convent, but finds himself involved in a political and religious conspiracy connected with the Inquisition.
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Purity of Blood
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Limpieza de sangre
Publisher: Penguin Group
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 267 pp.
ISBN: 9780452287983
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A desperate father hires Alatriste to rescue his daughter a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. The priest has threatened to reveal that the man's family is of Jewish descent, so he has no… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Purity of Blood
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Limpieza de sangre
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 267 pp.
ISBN: 0399153209
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hired to rescue a man's daughter from a convent where a powerful corrupt priest is forcing her to be his personal concubine, Alatriste finds himself thrust into a religious and political conspiracy with ties to the highest levels… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Queen Cocaine
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Núria Amat
Original work: Reina de América
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 222 pp.
ISBN: 9780872864351
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Queen Cocaine takes place amid the violence that rules everyday life in Colombia. In the remote Pacific Coast jungle, a region of incessant rain that is ravaged by the drug trade and by civil war, the army, the guerillas, and the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Quesadillas
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
Original work: Si viviéramos en un lugar normal
Publisher: & Other Stories
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9781908276223
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It's the eighties in Lagos de Moreno - a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows - and a poor family struggles to overcome the bizarre dangers of living in Mexico. The father, a high school civics… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Humorous fiction

Title: Quesadillas
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
Original work: Si viviéramos en un lugar normal
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 168 pp.
ISBN: 9780374533953
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "A brilliant new comic novel from "a linguistic virtuoso" (José Antonio Aguado, Diari de Terrassa). It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno--a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows--and a poor family… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Humorous fiction

Title: Rain Over Madrid
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Andrés Barba
Original work: Ha dejado de llover
Publisher: Hispabooks
City: Madrid
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 215 pp.
ISBN: 9788494228476
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) She remembers that the comment really stung and then immediately stopped stinging--like accidentally touching an open sore--when she took into account that a virtue can also be a defect if you just shift your perspective a few… read more

Title: Ratfish
Translator(s): José Lucas Badue
Author: R. A. Ramírez-Báez
Original work: Los ratapeces
Publisher: Sitel
City: Jackson Heights, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 30 pp.
ISBN: 9780974500515
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In the story "Ratfish", the main character is an illegal immigrant, a house painter who lives traumatized by the unrelenting harassment from the INS. Two word "ratfish", as it can be clear seen, is a new coinage composed of two… read more

Title: Rattlesnake
Translator(s): Sean Higgins, Jill Robbins
Author: Arturo Arias
Original work: Cascabel
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 1931896011
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tom Wright, an American CIA agent, is sent into Guatemala to rescue an Australian banker who has been kidnapped by a guerrilla organization known as EGP.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Reasons of State
Translator(s): Francis Partridge
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Original work: El recurso del método
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 373 pp.
ISBN: 9781612192796
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist--to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Augusto Roa Bastos… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Red April
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Santiago Roncagliolo
Original work: Abril rojo
Publisher: Pantheon Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 271 pp.
ISBN: 9780375425448
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lima prosecutor Félix Chacaltana Saldívar becomes the investigator in a mysterious murder, discovering links to the terrorist group, the Shining Path, and mass graves that expose the destruction and corruption of Peruvian society… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Santiago Roncagliolo ; translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Political fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Red April
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Santiago Roncagliolo
Original work: Abril rojo
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 271 pp.
ISBN: 0307388387
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lima prosecutor Félix Chacaltana Saldívar becomes the investigator in a mysterious murder, discovering links to the terrorist group, the Shining Path, and mass graves that expose the destruction and corruption of Peruvian… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Political fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Red Queen
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: Reina roja
Publisher: Minotaur Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 377 pp.
ISBN: 9781250853677
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Introducing Antonia Scott--the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander--in Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen, the #1 international award-winning bestseller & thriller that has taken the world by storm.… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Red Queen
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: Reina roja
Publisher: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 607 pp.
ISBN: 9798885790888
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Antonia Scott--the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother--has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Remember Me : A Spanish Civil War Novel
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: Recuérdame
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
City: Nashville, TN
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 362 pp.
ISBN: 9780785236580
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Historians refer to the Spanish Civil War as one of the bloodiest wars of the twentieth century. In 1937, at Mexico's request and offer, nearly 500 children from Spain - remembered as Los Niños de Morelia - were relocated via… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, History

Title: Remember Me : a Spanish Civil War novel (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: Recuérdame
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 447 pp.
ISBN: 9781643588025
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From international bestseller Mario Escobar comes a 20th-century historical novel of tragedy and resilience inspired by Spain's famed Children of Morelia and the true events that shaped their lives.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, History

Title: Remember the Scorpion
Translator(s): Jonathan Tittler
Author: Isaac Goldemberg
Original work: Acuérdate del escorpión
Publisher: The Unnamed Press
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 133 pp.
ISBN: 9781939419194
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Lima, 1970: a tremendous earthquake has just struck the Peruvian capital, and mayhem reigns. Tensions are high, with a population reeling from the disaster and mesmerized by the World Cup. Enter detective Simon Weiss, tasked… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Reputations
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Reputaciones
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 190 pp.
ISBN: 9781594633478
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An influential political cartoonist is paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life, work, and position in the world.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Political fiction