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: The Color of Summer, Or, The New Garden of Earthly Delights
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 465 pp.
ISBN: 0140157190
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Color of Summer: Or The New Garden of Earthly Delights
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 465 pp.
ISBN: 0140157190
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Colors of Memory
Translator(s): Gabriela Tagliavini
Author: Gabriela Tagliavini
Original work: Los colores de la memoria
Publisher: Herodias
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 9781928746171
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Facing death from cancer in a Mexican hospital, Carla Arnone escapes from the hospital to California with a ten-year-old boy, relating her life story to "the kid" and her obsession with colors before they reach their… read more

Title: The Colors of Memory
Translator(s): Gabriela Tagliavini
Author: Gabriela Tagliavini
Original work: Los colores de la memoria
Publisher: Herodias
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9781928746171
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Facing death from cancer in a Mexican hospital, Carla Arnone escapes from the hospital to California with a ten-year-old boy, relating her life story to "the kid" and her obsession with colors before they reach their destination.

Title: The Confidantes
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Original work: Las confidentes
Publisher: Gaon Books
City: Santa Fe, NM
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 139 pp.
ISBN: 9780982065723
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) One day two women gather to tell stories. As the stories take life, the two women become their characters. A day and night of telling builds into a crescendo of unimaginable truth where the boundaries between story, fable, and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fiction

Title: The Corpse Reader
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Antonio Garrido
Original work: El lector de cadáveres
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 471 pp.
ISBN: 9781612184364
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he's forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Historical fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History, Mystery fiction

Title: The Creator's Map
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Emilio Calderón
Original work: El mapa del creador
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9781594201813
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jose Maria, a young Spaniard studying at the Real Academia Espanola in Rome during the Spanish Civil War, and his beloved Montse become involved with Junio, a pro-Nazi Italian prince, in a search for the map God used to create… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Creator's Map
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Emilio Calderón
Original work: El mapa del creador
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9780143115502
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jose Maria, a young Spaniard studying at the Real Academia Espanola in Rome during the Spanish Civil War, and his beloved Montse become involved with Junio, a pro-Nazi Italian prince, in a search for the map God used to create… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Creator's Map (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Emilio Calderón
Original work: El mapa del creador
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 429 pp.
ISBN: 9781410411716
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Jose Maria, an architect, is forced to wait out the Spanish Civil War in 1937 at the Spanish Academy in Rome, he learns of an underground Nazi plot to acquire a legendary map that is said to be penned by God depicting the… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Crossed-out Notebook
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Nicolás Giacobone
Original work: El cuaderno tachado
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9781501198748
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction

Title: The Cypresses Believe in God
Translator(s): Harriet De Onís
Author: José María Gironella
Original work: Los cipreses creen en Dios
Publisher: Ignatius Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 806 pp.
ISBN: 9781586170462
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Dancer and the Thief
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Antonio Skármeta
Original work: Baile de la victoria
Publisher: W.W. Norton
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 300 pp.
ISBN: 9780393064940
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Granted amnesty along with other non-violent Chilean prisoners, Ángel Santiago plots revenge against those who abused him in jail, teaming up with bank robber Nicolás Vergara Grey during a heist that is complicated by the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Antonio Skármeta : translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Dark
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Sergio Chejfec
Original work: Boca de lobo
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824436
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The narrator remembers a young factory worker, named Delia. Delia is beautiful, but also very poor, and the narrator mentions her "proletarian nature" compared to the narrator's well-educated, middle-class background. He seems… read more

Title: The Dark Bride
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: La novia oscura
Publisher: Ecco
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780732273835
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Colombian forest prostitute Sayonara violates the boundaries of her profession by pursuing a relationship with an unavailable man, a choice that jeopardizes her clients, the oil company workers, as well as her own happiness.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Love stories, Fiction

Title: The Dark Bride
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: La novia oscura
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 006008894
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Colombian forest prostitute Sayonara violates the boundaries of her profession by pursuing a relationship with an unavailable man, a choice that jeopardizes her clients, the oil company workers, as well as her own happiness.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Laura Restrepo ; translated by Stephen A. Lytle.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Love stories, Fiction

Title: The Daughter's Tale
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La hija olvidada
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 303 pp.
ISBN: 9781501187933
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic ficiton, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, American fiction (spanish), Romans

Title: The Daughter's Tale (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La hija olvidada
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 391 pp.
ISBN: 9781643584836
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children.
Literary Genre: Domestic ficiton, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, American fiction (spanish), Romans

Title: The Days of the Deer
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Liliana Bodoc
Original work: Los días del venado
Publisher: Corvus
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 320 pp.
ISBN: 9781848870277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It is known that the strangers will sail from some part of the Ancient Lands and will cross the Yentru Sea. All our predictions and sacred books clearly say the same thing. The rest is all shadows. Shadows that prevent us from… read more

Title: The Death of Artemio Cruz
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: La muerte de Artemio Cruz
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 307 pp.
ISBN: 9780374531805
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A powerful Mexican newspaper owner recalls episodes of his earlier life as he lies confined to his bed, gravely ill.

Title: The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Horacio Quiroga
Original work: La gallina degollada y otros cuentos
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 166 pp.
ISBN: 0299198340
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American storyteller Horacio Quiroga. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other… read more
Literary Genre: Translations, Short story genre