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 Magic Lantern
Translator(s): Margaret Carson
Author: José Tomás de Cuéllar
Original work: La linterna mágica
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 166 pp.
ISBN: 9780195115024
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Two "renderings of a Mexican society fast unraveling under the mounting influence of European culture.Edited and with an introduction by Margo Glantz. Illustrations by José María Villasana.
Literary Genre: Translations

Title: The Maids of Havana
Translator(s): Jonathan Curry-Machado
Author: Pedro Pérez Sarduy
Original work: Las criadas de La Habana
Publisher: AuthorHouse
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 9781449070700
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her… read more

Title: The Man of Feeling
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: El hombre sentimental
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 0811215318
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After meeting during a train ride from Milan to Venice, a young opera singer and a married woman begin a passionate love affair.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Man Who Loved Dogs
Translator(s): Anna Kushner
Author: Leonardo Padura
Original work: El hombre que amaba a los perros
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 576 pp.
ISBN: 9780374201746
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Historical fiction, Political fiction, Fiction

Title: The Mangy Parrot : The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento : Written by Himself for His Children
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
Original work: El Periquillo Sarniento
Publisher: Hackett Pub.
City: Indianapolis, IN
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 541 pp.
ISBN: 0872206696
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Mangy Parrot has become a Mexican classic beloved by generations of Latin American readers. Now, in vibrant American idiom, translator David Frye captures the exuberance of Lizardi's tale-telling as the author follows his… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: The Mangy Parrot, Abridged : The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento, Written by Himself for His Children
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
Original work: El Periquillo Sarniento
Publisher: Hackett
City: Indianapolis, IN
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9780872206717
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The author follows his narrator and alter ego, Periquillo Sarniento, through a series of misadventures that exposes the ignorance and corruption plaguing Mexican society on the eve of the wars for independence. Raw descriptions… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: The Map of Chaos
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Félix J. Palma
Original work: El mapa del caos
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 574 pp.
ISBN: 9781451688184
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The action of the wondrous final volume in Spanish author Palma's speculative thriller trilogy (which began with "The Map of Time" unfolds in several Victorian eras in parallel universes, beginning with esteemed… read more
Literary Genre: Science fiction, Historical fiction, Steampunk fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fiction

Title: The Map of the Sky
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Félix J. Palma
Original work: El mapa del cielo
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 594 pp.
ISBN: 9781451660319
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue.
Literary Genre: Science fiction, english, Fantasy fiction, english, Steampunk fiction, english, Science fiction, Fantasy fiction, Historical fiction, Time-travel fiction, Fiction

Title: The Map of Time
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Félix J Palma
Original work: Mapa del tiempo
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 611 pp.
ISBN: 9781439167397
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) London, 1896. Andrew Harrington's lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty, forever being matched with men her family considers suitable,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Félix J. Palma ; translated by Nick Caistor.
Literary Genre: Science fiction, spanish, Time-travel fiction, Fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy fiction, Historical fiction

Title: The Marién Revelation
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Miguel Angel Santana
Original work: Revelación de Marién
Publisher: Alligator Press
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 205 pp.
ISBN: 9780967565859
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) About to turn forty, Marién Valbuena, finds herself evaluating her relationships, her faith and her life. Two millennia separate her and Mary, a young woman in Ancient Judea. While Marién can't find a reason to hold on to a… read more

Title: The Martyrs of Anahuac
Translator(s): Guillermo I. Castillo-Feliú
Author: Eligio Ancona
Original work: Los mártires del Anáhuac
Publisher: Peter Lang
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 297 pp.
ISBN: 0820467235
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Martyrs of Anahuac is a translation of Eligio Ancona's Los Martires del Anahuac (1873). In this historical novel, Ancona employs the writings of Hernan Cortes and others to present an encompassing view of the conquest of… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, mexican -- translations into english, Belletristische darstellung, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Master of the Prado
Translator(s): Jasper Reid
Author: Javier Sierra
Original work: El maestro del Prado
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 306 pp.
ISBN: 9781476776965
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra takes you on a grand tour of the Prado museum in this historical novel that illuminates the fascinating mysteries behind European art--complete with gorgeous, full-color inserts… read more
Literary Genre: Alternative histories (fiction), Fiction

Title: The Matter of Desire
Translator(s): Lisa Carter
Author: Edmundo Paz Soldán
Original work: La materia del deseo
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston, MA
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 214 pp.
ISBN: 0618395571
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a university in upstate New York. Having become entangled in an erotically charged romance with Ashley, a beautiful red-headed… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romance fiction, Romans

Title: The Medicine Man
Translator(s): Robert S. Rudder, Gloria Chacón de Arjona
Author: Francisco Rojas González
Original work: El diosero
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA.
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 111 pp.
ISBN: 1891270079
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Medicine Man, which won first place at the 1955 Cannes film festival, is indeed a masterful and compelling narrative, always surprising the reader with a final, unexpected twist, eloquently illustrates in "The Sad Story of… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Francisco Rojas González ; translated by Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Arjona.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Short stories, Romans

Title: The Memory House
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Lucía Graves
Original work: La casa de la memoria
Publisher: Vineyard Press
City: Port Jefferson, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 240 pp.
ISBN: 9781930067172
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A crucial period in history is brought vividly to life as Graves describes the plight of two lovers who are separated when one converts to Judaism and the other leaves Spain in 1492.

Title: The Merciful Women
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Federico Andahazi
Original work: Las piadosas
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 0802116744
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In the summer of 1816, Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary's sister, and Lord Byron hid themselves inside a Swiss villa, whiling away rainy afternoons with a Gothic novel writing contest. In Andahazi's reimagining, there was a fifth… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Nouvelles

Title: The Metal of the Dead
Translator(s): Anna-Marie Aldaz
Author: Concha Espina
Original work: El metal de los muertos
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg, London
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 311 pp.
ISBN: 0838755453
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Metal of the Dead denounces the deplorable living and labor conditions of the workers in the Rio Tinto copper mine and describes the events that led up to their 1917 general strike. Concha Espina spent several weeks in… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Romans

Title: The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: César Aira
Original work: Las curas milagrosas del doctor Aira
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 80 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219990
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Short fiction about a doctor who has a gift for making miracles and who is not deterred by his archenemy, Dr. Actyn, who is constantly trying to prove he is a charlatan.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: The Mongolian Conspiracy
Translator(s): Katherine Silvers
Author: Rafael Bernal
Original work: Complot Mongol
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9780811220668
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A gripping and hilarious 1960s Mexico City noir.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Rafael Bernal ; translated by Katherine Silver ; introduction by Francisco Goldman.
Literary Genre: Noir fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Moses Expedition
Translator(s): A. V Lebron
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: Contrato con Dios
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 386 pp.
ISBN: 9781416590644
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) After fifty years in hiding, the Nazi war criminal known as the Butcher of Spiegelgrund has finally been tracked down by Father Anthony Fowler, a CIA operative and a member of the Vatican's secret service. He wants… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gomez-Jurado ; translated by A.V. Lebron.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Adventure fiction, Suspense fiction