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: Tattoo
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Tatuaje
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
City: London
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9781846686672
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-marxist and constant gourmet, is working as a private detective in Barcelona, when a body is pulled out of the sea, its face so badly destroyed that the only way of identifying it is through a tattoo… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Title: Tattoo
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Tatuaje
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781612192086
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-marxist and constant gourmet, is hired to investigate the identity of a man pulled out of the sea with a tattoo that reads, "born to raise hell in hell."
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Lilit Thwaites
Author: Rosa Montero
Original work: Lágrimas en la lluvia
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9781612184388
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the United States of Earth, Madrid, 2109, the number of techno-human deaths is rapidly growing. Detective Bruna Husky is hired to discover what's behind this wave of insanity. She must trust no one, because those who call… read more
Literary Genre: Science fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Sofía Segovia
Original work: Peregrinos
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 469 pp.
ISBN: 9781542027915
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With war looming dangerously close, Ilse's school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. As battle lines are drawn and East Prussia'… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction / historical / general, Fiction / sagas, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, War fiction, Mexica fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Yuri Herrera
Original work: Diez planetas
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 108 pp.
ISBN: 9781644452233
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by "one of Mexico's finest novelists". The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Philosophical fiction, Science fiction, Nouvelles
Title: Ten tales
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 0838754368
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This work contains new English translations of three short novels and seven short stories that critics have singled out as representative of Leopoldo Alas's short prose fiction. "The Two Boxes" evokes the frustration of an… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Ten Women
Translator(s): Beth Fowler
Author: Marcela Serrano
Original work: Diez mujeres
Publisher: Amazoncrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 9781477849453
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Award-winning Chilean author Marcela Serrano weaves a beautiful story about the universal connections between women. For nine Chilean women, life couldnt be more different. There is the teenage computer whiz confronting her… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Sarah Moses
Author: Agustina María Bazterrica
Original work: Cadáver exquisito
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 1982150920
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans -- though no one calls them that anymore. First an infectious virus made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Dystopian fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Dystopias, Romans
Translator(s): José León Sánchez
Author: José León Sánchez
Publisher: Roca-Basa Productions Inc
City: Tampa, FL
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 401 pp.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A novel which tells the story of those who lost the battle that led to the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521, i.e., the Aztecs.
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Terra nostra
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 785 pp.
ISBN: 1564782875
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Chronological time is abolished and space concentrated into one area in a multi-dimensional pageant of Spanish history and culture that touches upon all facets of human experience.Introduction by Jorge Volpi Escalante; afterword… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Translations, Romans
Translator(s): Samantha Schnee
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 283 pp.
ISBN: 9781941920008
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, Carmen Boullosa's newest novel Texas: The Great Theft is a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex borderland, wrested from Mexico in 1848… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Romans
Translator(s): Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Author: Ricardo Piglia
Original work: La ciudad ausente
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham, NC
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 0822325578
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Absent City takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition todemocracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Leland H. Chambers
Author: Carlos Franz
Original work: Desierto
Publisher: McPherson & Co.
City: Kingston, N.Y.
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 375 pp.
ISBN: 9780929701943
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Just before the coup d'etat that overturned Chile's govenrment under Allende, a young, idealistic judge is posted to a provincial center in the vast northern desert. After the coup, the town is occupied by the military, which… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Carlos Franz ; translated by Leland H. Chambers.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Political fiction, Fiction, History
Translator(s): Jessica Sequeira
Author: Daniel Guebel
Original work: El absoluto
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 464 pp.
ISBN: 9781644211601
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "he Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): James H. Montgomery
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: Ne Plus Ultra Pub.
City: [Place of publication not identified]
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 703 pp.
ISBN: 1419626914
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An up-to-date translation of Cervatnes' classic 17th century novel of an old man who goes somewhat insane and believes he is a knight errant.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Álvaro Mutis
Publisher: New York Review of Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 700 pp.
ISBN: 0940322919
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death,… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Short stories, Translations, Adventure fiction, Picaresque literature, Nouvelles
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Daniel Venegas
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 1558852972
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The hapless journey of the poor farmer Don Chipote de Jesús Maria Domínguez, who naively leaves behind his wife and children in Mexico to seek riches in the United States--where, he is assured, one can sweep up gold dust off… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Daniel Venegas ; translated from the Spanish by Ethriam Cash Brammer ; with a new introduction by Nicolás Kanellos.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: State Street Press
City: Ann Arbor, MI
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 531 pp.
ISBN: 9780681453906
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Publisher: Yax Te' Foundation
City: Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 9781886502383
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A historical and satirical novel whose principal character is an American adventurer who suddenly turns up in a Maya community in the highlands of western Guatemala. Apart from the impact that he causes in the community by his… read more
Translator(s): Jeffery Gray
Author: Rosa Rodrigo Rey
Original work: La orilla Africana
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven, CT
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 9780300196108
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Loosely interweaving the stories of Hamsa, a Moroccan shepherd preparing himself to serve as a lookout for a smuggling operation run by his uncle, and of a Colombian tourist (not named until the end), who, having lost his… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction