On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Translator(s): Patricia J. Duncan
Author: David Toscana
Original work: Santa María del Circo
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780312271169
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Acclaimed Mexican writer David Toscana's second novel is a whimsical and dark tale of a group of circus performers who are seduced by the idea of living like ordinary people.
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 356 pp.
ISBN: 9780061731303
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Born into poverty and then abandoned by her mother, Isabel "La Negra" Luberza blossoms into a supremely sensual young woman. Obsessed with attaining aristocratic status - armed with incredible physical presence,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mayra Santos-Febres ; translated from Spanish by Ernesto Mestre-Reed.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Jaime Manrique
Author: Jaime Manrique
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9780060820701
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Chronicles the enthralling life of Manuela Sáenz, who won her place in history as the great love of South American liberator Simón Bolivar. Abandoning her position as one of the richest women in Lima, Sáenz worked to overthrow… read more
Translator(s): Jaime Manrique
Author: Jaime Manrique
Publisher: Rayo
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9780060820701
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Chronicles the enthralling life of Manuela Sáenz, who won her place in history as the great love of South American liberator Simón Bolivar. Abandoning her position as one of the richest women in Lima, Sáenz worked to overthrow… read more
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Jesús Carrasco
Original work: Intemperie
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 226 pp.
ISBN: 9781594634369
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A searing dystopian vision of a young boy's flight through an unnamed, savaged country, searching for sanctuary and redemption--from one of Europe's bestselling literary stars. A young boy has fled his home. He's pursued by… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Dystopian fiction, Bildungsromans, Fiction
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Fernanda García Lao
Original work: Fuera de la jaula
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 9781646050451
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After a freakish death, a young Argentinian woman is left to observe the world outside of the “cage” of her body; through jarring vignettes and ruminations, acclaimed author García Lao creates a complex, intelligent, and… read more
Translator(s): John William Byrd
Author: Luis Humberto Crosthwaite
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
City: El Paso, TX
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 167 pp.
ISBN: 9781935955566
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) amon and Cornelio are best friends, driven by boredom as teenagers to start a band. Not just any band. A norteño band, playing God's favorite music. God even pitches in to write the songs. Success, disaster and good music follow.
Title: Outlaws
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 369 pp.
ISBN: 1620403250
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Decades after sixteen-year-old Ignacio Cañas becomes the partner-in-crime of two charistmatic rebels, Ignacio, now a successful defense lawyer, encounters his former comrades and falls under their spell again.
Literary Genre: Legal stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Title: Outlaws
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: London
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 384 pp.
ISBN: 9781408844205
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One summer's day in Gerona a bespectacled, 16-year-old Ignacio Cañas, known to his few friends as Gafitas, is working in an amusement arcade, when a charismatic teenager walks in with the most beautiful girl Cañas has ever seen.… read more
Literary Genre: Legal stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Title: Outlaws
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 384 pp.
ISBN: 9781620403273
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In the late 1970s, after the death of Franco, Spain was in a state of transition. Gangs of juvenile delinquents, called quinquis, swarmed the streets. The most famous of them was Zarco.In the summer of '78, Zarco's gang rises… read more
Literary Genre: Legal stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Translator(s): Emmanuel Harris
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9780974888156
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Appearing for the first time outside of Cuba, this bold collection of short stories provides an intimate and critical view of Afro-Cuba. Inés María Martiatu's stories--presented in a unique "split" English/Spanish edition--span… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Ilan Stavans
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 329 pp.
ISBN: 9780826354969
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) First published in 1994 as Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers, Ilan Stavans's classic anthology is expanded and updated in this new edition.Contents: Introduction /; by Ilan Stavans --;… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Noel Hughes
Author: Luz Gabás
Original work: Palmeras en la nieve
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 610 pp.
ISBN: 9781503941694
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Clarence of Rabaltué discovers a series of old letters from her father's past, she begins to doubt everything she thought she knew about her once-noble family. Her father and his brother worked in the colony of Fernando Po… read more
Translator(s): Mara Lethem
Author: Eduardo A. Sacheri
Original work: Papeles en el viento
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 476 pp.
ISBN: 9781590516423
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Alejandro "Mono" dies of cancer, his brother and two closest friends, a tight-knit group since childhood, are left to figure out how to take care of his young daughter, Guadalupe. They want to give her all the love they felt… read more
Literary Genre: Sports stories, Fiction
Title: Papi
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Rita Indiana Hernández Sánchez
Original work: Papi
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
City: Chicago ; London
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 9780226244891
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Papi tells a story in the voice of an eight year old girl waiting in Santo Domingo for her father to return from New York to lavish her with gifts and the glory of his fame. Things don't go according to plan.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fiction
Title: Paradais
Author: Fernanda Melchor
Original work: Páradais
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 112 pp.
ISBN: 9780811231329
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor-an attractive married woman and mother… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Fiction, Novels, Thrillers (fiction), Romans
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Jorge Franco Ramos
Original work: Paraíso travel
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9780312425968
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tragicomic story of unrequited love and a view of New York through the wide eyes of an illegal immigrant. This book recounts the adventures of Marlon Cruz, a naïve young man from Medellín, Colombia, who agrees to accompany… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Jorge Franco Ramos
Original work: Paraíso travel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 0374229775
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From one of Colombia's leading novelists, a tragicomic story of unrequited love and a view of New York through the wide eyes of an illegal immigrant Paradise Travel recounts the adventures of Marlon Cruz, a naïve young man from… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Title: Paradiso
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: José Lezama Lima
Original work: Paradiso
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2000
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 466 pp.
ISBN: 156478228X
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Tells the story of Jose Cemi, who, in the wake of his father's premature death, comes of age in turn-of-the-century Cuba.
Literary Genre: Lesbian fiction, Romans, Nouvelles
Title: Passion
Translator(s): Rosemary Peele
Author: Florencia Bonelli
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 627 pp.
ISBN: 9781477849491
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Helping suffering children of the war-torn Congo has long been a dream for pediatric surgeon Matilde Martinez. When the opportunity arises, she must leave Paris―and the recent heartache of love lost―to take it. Professional… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romantic suspense fiction