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): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 656 pp.
ISBN: 9780739327081
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Publisher: Bantam Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 399 pp.
ISBN: 0385339623
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Publisher: Bantam Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 399 pp.
ISBN: 9780385339629
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A fire at the Turin cathedral and the discovery of a mutilated corpse are the latest in a disturbing series of events surrounding the mysterious cloth millions believe to be the authentic burial shroud of Jesus Christ. Those… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Publisher: Dell
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 546 pp.
ISBN: 9780440243021
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction
Translator(s): Peter G. Broad
Author: Rogelio Guedea
Original work: Conducir un tráiler
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
City: Lubbock, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 153 pp.
ISBN: 9780896728639
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A modern-day picaresque novel by one of Mexico's best The Brothers Corona is a novel that unfolds like a Sam Shepard story made into a Wim Wenders road movie. It is the first Mexican detective novel that reflects rural Mexican… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Picaresque literature
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785800
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This masterful and ironic detective novel concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens-Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth-all combining to make a… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Mystery fiction
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 377 pp.
ISBN: 9781612190341
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho travels from Barcelona to Buenos Aires to search for his cousin who disappeared in the Argentine army's Dirty War, but soon finds that he is risking his own life by delving into the traumas of Argentina's history.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction
Translator(s): Edward W. Hood
Author: Roberto Castillo
Publisher: University Press of America
City: Lanham, Md.
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 0761816089
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Castillo ; translated by Edward Waters Hood.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations, Romans
Author: Gioconda Belli
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 44 pp.
ISBN: 1933372125
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Odaer likes to think of different ways to mix species of animals and plants in his experiments. One day he combines flowers with birds to create a butterfly.
Additional Information: Responsibility: [witten by] Gioconda Belli ; [illustrated by] Wolf Erlbruch ; translated from the Spanish by Charles Castaldi.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Juvenile works
Title: The Caiman
Translator(s): Amy Brill
Author: María Eugenia Manrique
Original work: La caimana
Publisher: Amazon Crossing Kids
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 29 pp.
ISBN: 9781542031585
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Faoro the clockmaker adopts a baby caiman, he has no idea that someday their story will travel far and wide. But the town of San Fernando de Apure would never forget this kind young man and his adoring alligator, who played… read more
Literary Genre: Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works, Livres d'images
Translator(s): George Henson
Author: Luis Jorge Boone
Original work: La noche caníbal
Publisher: Alligator Press
City: Salt Lake City, UT
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 9780967565873
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is a collection of haunting and breathtaking short stories. The characters are beings oppressed by their fears, tyrannized by their weaknesses, confused by their own dreams. An aura of death and delirium hovers over their… read more
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mayra Montero
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 181 pp.
ISBN: 0374118825
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For fifty years Andres Yasin has held a grudge against J.T. Bunker for an alleged affair with Andres' mother. Will the truth finally come out after all these years?
Literary Genre: Fiction
Author: Martín Adán
Original work: La casa de carton
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 126 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219594
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The novel presents a stunning series of flashes scenes, moods, dreams, and weather as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 369 pp.
ISBN: 0399156038
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Struggling to fit into the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, reluctantly remain in the employ of the crown for their unique services but find their prospects… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Historical fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, History, Adventure fiction
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 369 pp.
ISBN: 9780399156038
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, with its posh theaters and gleaming palaces, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Historical fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, History, Adventure fiction
Title: The Chase
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 121 pp.
ISBN: 0816638098
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alejo Carpentier ; translated by Alfred MacAdam ; introduction by Timothy Brennan.
Translator(s): María Bennet
Author: Tomás Modesto Galán
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 201 pp.
ISBN: 9781493741083
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This book is a collection of stories that will echo in the hearts of all who are familiar with this kind of life, but perhaps can – even more significantly-- create the illusion of an echo even in those people, who perhaps… read more
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 9780063143159
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a complete collection of the author's short stories, some of which were not previously published. The stories are mysterious, imbued with a sense of menace, and told with the warmth, wit, and humor of Zafón's inimitable… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El club Dumas
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 362 pp.
ISBN: 9780156032834
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lucas Corso, a rare book hunter, is called in to authenticate a fragment of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers," found in the possession of a murdered bibliophile, and soon finds himself involved… read more
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Viking
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9780670840656
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Arenas's finest comic achievement is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonia, a five-volume cycle of autobiographical novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate installment in… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans