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: Seven Views of the Same Landscape
Translator(s): Barbara F. Ichiishi
Author: Esther Tusquets
Original work: Siete miradas en un mismo paisaje
Publisher: Host Publications
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 172 pp.
ISBN: 9780924047893
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) SEVEN VIEWS OF THE SAME LANDSCAPE is a beautiful collection of coming-of-age tales that unfold in post-Civil War Barcelona. Told as remembered episodes largely from a child's perspective, the young Sara is entranced by the… read more

Title: Seventy Times Seven
Translator(s): Geoff Hargreaves
Author: Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo
Original work: Setenta veces siete
Publisher: Floricanto Press
City: Moorpark, CA
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 9781482319231
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) “Why hurry to give a welcome to grief?” asks Carolina. In the 1880’s a Mexican family splits in two; Carolina remains in rural Mexico, while her two brothers head north to what will become urban Texas. Still connected but ever… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Ricardo Elizondo ; English translation by Geoff Hargreaves.

Title: Severina
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Original work: Severina
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 87 pp.
ISBN: 9780300196092
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The monotonous life of a male bookseller is shaken by a consummate female book thief named Severina. As though in an obsessive dream with blurred lines between the rational and irrational, the bookseller delves deeper and deeper… read more
Literary Genre: Guatemalan fiction -- translations into english, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Shadow Without a Name
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush, Anne McLean
Author: Ignacio Padilla
Original work: Amphitryon
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 9780312422707
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Three men, including a railway signalman, a World War I hero and Nazi general, and a master chess player, find key events in their lives intertwining as the events of the First and Second World Wars thrust them together at the… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Shadow Without a Name
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush, Anne McLean
Author: Ignacio Padilla
Original work: Amphitryon
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 0374261903
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Counter A stunning debut by one of Mexico's most dazzling younger writers. In 1916, Victor Kretzchmar and Thadeus Dreyer face each other over a chessboard on a train heading to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's disastrous Eastern… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Shadow Without a Name
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush, Anne McLean
Author: Ignacio Padilla
Original work: Amphitryon
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 9780743207317
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) During World War II, General Thadeus Dreyer is put in charge of the Amphitryon Project, training doubles to stand in for leading Nazis at dangerous public events. What bearing does this have on the arrest of Adolf Eichmann in… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Shadows of Your Black Memory
Translator(s): Michael Ugarte
Author: Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo
Original work: Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 179 pp.
ISBN: 9780974888125
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In this bildungsroman, Donato Ndongo masterfully exposes the cultural fissures of his native land. "Spanish Guinea" is a heated, sensual landscape with exotic animals and trees, ancient rituals, ghosts, saints, and sinners. We… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction

Title: Shantytown
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: Villa
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 9780811221580
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown attracts the attention of a corrupt policeman who would use anyone including innocent kids to break a drug ring he believes… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Literary Genre: Noir fiction, Novels, Fiction, Translations, Romans

Title: She Decided to Be a Hippy at 50 ...
Translator(s): Catrina Vettoretti
Author: Angélica Sánchez
Original work: Ella decidió ser hippy a los 50
Publisher: Palibrio
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 85 pp.
ISBN: 9781463307554
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) She decided to be a hippy at 50 ISC Novel Award 1999 When you feel the world is tight, erases yours dreams, attempts to tie your emotions or silences your voice as you differ, wear your colored beads, your bellbottoms, a ribbon… read more

Title: Shiki Nagaoka : A Nose for Fiction
Translator(s): David Shook
Author: Mario Bellatin
Original work: Shiki Nagaoka : una nariz de ficción
Publisher: Phoneme Media
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 78 pp.
ISBN: 9781939419026
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Mexican novelist Mario Bellatin introduces the revolutionary work of a mysterious Japanese writer whose very existence has been all but erased from world literature. A writer who inspired Juan Rulfo and José María Arguedas,… read more

Title: Shipwrecked Body
Translator(s): Jay Miskowiec
Author: Ana Clavel
Original work: Cuerpo náufrago
Publisher: Aliform Pub.
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 151 pp.
ISBN: 9780981707204
Summary/Reviews: () Translation edited by Juan Arciniega.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Shooting Star
Translator(s): Rosaura Sánchez, Beatrice Pita
Author: Sergio D. Elizondo
Original work: Muerte en una estrella
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 310 pp.
ISBN: 9781611928587
Literary Genre: Mexican fiction, Romans, Novellas

Title: Short Stories by the Generation of 1898 = Cuentos de la Generación de 1898
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dover
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 215 pp.
ISBN: 9780486436821
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The generation of Spanish artists known as the 98ers, who renounced politics and sought their country's true spirit within its landscape, culture, and character, are well represented here by thirteen stories by five outstanding… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Short Story Collections by Jorge Luis Borges : The Book of Sand, A Universal History of Infamy, Shakespeare's Memory, Ficciones, The Aleph, Labyrinths
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Books LLC
City: Memphis, TN
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 18 pp.
ISBN: 1158478909
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Shorts : Stories
Translator(s): Ezra E. Fitz
Author: Alberto Fuguet
Original work: Cortos
Publisher: Rayo
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 327 pp.
ISBN: 9780060817145
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Brilliantly chronicles the occasionally bizarre, unceasingly turbulent existence of the geographically and emotionally displaced.
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Silver Bullets
Translator(s): Mark Fried
Author: Elmer Mendoza
Original work: Balas de plata
Publisher: MacLehose Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 237 pp.
ISBN: 9780857052582
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It's just another day at the office for Detective Edgar 'Lefty' Mendieta: abandoned by the woman he loves, demoralized by his city's (nad his nation's) ubiquitous corruption, and in dire need of some psychotherapy. Against this… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Msytery fiction

Title: Simone
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: Eduardo Lalo
Original work: Simone
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
City: Chicago ; London
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 159 pp.
ISBN: 9780226207483
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A disillusioned writer in San Juan finds himself stalked by a Chinese immigrant student, and as the two realize that they share a similar plight, they move towards bitter-sweet collaborations in passion, grief, literature, and… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: Singing from the Well
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Original work: Celestino antes del alba
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 9780140094442
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his precious crosses for kindling. His cousins meet to plot their grandfather's death. Yet in the hills… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction

Title: Sirena Selena
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Original work: Sirena Selena vestida de pena
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 214 pp.
ISBN: 9780312252274
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Discovered by Martha Divine in the backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva… read more
Literary Genre: Erotic stories, Erotic fiction, Fiction, Translations (form), Novels (texts)

Title: Sirena Selena
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Original work: Sirena Selena vestida de pena
Publisher: Picador USA
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 214 pp.
ISBN: 0312252277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Discovered By Martha Divine In The Backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva whose… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mayra Santos-Febres ; translated by Stephen Lytle.
Literary Genre: Erotic stories, Erotic fiction, Fiction, Translations (form), Novels (texts)