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 Night Buffalo
Author: Guillermo Arriaga Jordán
Original work: El búfalo de la noche
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 0743281853
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer Guillermo Arriaga weaves a luminous, insightful story of love and friendship, passion and betrayal, lunacy and mental illness. Set in Mexico City, The Night Buffalo revolves around… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans

Title: The Night Travelers
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Faye Williams, Cecilia Molinari
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La viajera nocturna
Publisher: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 354 pp.
ISBN: 9781501187988
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Novels, Romans

Title: The Night Travelers (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Faye Williams, Cecilia Molinari
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La viajera nocturna
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 527 pp.
ISBN: 9781638086055
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Novels, Romans

Title: The North Face of the Heart
Translator(s): Michael Meigs
Author: Dolores Redondo
Original work: La cara norte del corazón
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 473 pp.
ISBN: 9781542022323
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie. And… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Mystery fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Nubian Prince
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Juan Bonilla
Original work: Los príncipes nubios
Publisher: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 258 pp.
ISBN: 0805077812
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A comic odyssey of a hapless hero ensnared by globalization, humanitarian aid, and the international sex trade, this story takes place in a pitiless world where the have-nots will do anything to become haves, while the privileged… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Obstacles
Translator(s): Ezra E. Fitz
Author: Eloy Urroz Kanan
Original work: Las Rémoras
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 350 pp.
ISBN: 1564784274
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One of the most remarkable books of contemporary Mexican literature, The Obstacles is the story of young writers coming of age in a world dominated entirely by their own fictions. It tells, in alternating chapters, the stories of… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction

Title: The Old Gringo
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Gringo viejo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 0374530521
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American author, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers - particularly his encounter with one of Villa's… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Old Gringo
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Gringo viejo
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 9780374525224
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The celebrated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disapeared in Mexico during its civil war. In this brilliant novel, Carlos Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among Pancho Villa's troops and dramatizes… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories
Translator(s): Ilan Stavans
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, IL
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 196 pp.
ISBN: 9780810124608
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Haunting and enigmatic, these nine loosely connected stories are evidence of the growing field of Jewish-Latin American fiction. 'A Heaven Without Crows,' structured as a letter from Kafka to his friend Max Brod, details the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Oxford Brotherhood
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Guillermo Martínez
Original work: Los crímenes de Alicia
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 9781643138770
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes. When Kristen, a researcher hired by the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood,… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction

Title: The Oxford Murders
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Guillermo Martínez
Original work: Crímenes imperceptibles
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 1596921501
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A paperback sensation in Argentina, Spain, and the United Kingdom, The Oxford Murders has been hailed as "a remarkable feat" (Time Out London) and its author as "one of Argentina's most distinctive voices" (The Times Literary… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: The Oxford Murders
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Guillermo Martínez
Original work: Crímenes imperceptibles
Publisher: Penguin Group
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 9780143037965
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It begins on a summer day in Oxford, when a young Argentine graduate student finds his landlady-an elderly woman who helped crack the Enigma Code during World War II -murdered in cold blood. Meanwhile, a renowned Oxford logician… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: The Painter of Battles
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El pintor de batallas
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780812977301
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retreated to a tower overlooking the Spanish coast, where he paints a vast mural incorporating the indelible images of conflict he’s witnessed in his lifetime.One night,… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Translations, Fiction, War stories, Romans

Title: The Painter of Battles
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El pintor de batallas
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781400065981
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as continues to try to understand it, he… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Translations, Fiction, War stories, Romans

Title: The Painter of Battles
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El pintor de batallas
Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781400065981
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as continues to try to understand it, he… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Translations, Fiction, War stories, Romans

Title: The Paris Enigma
Translator(s): Mara Lethem
Author: Pablo de Santis
Original work: Enigma de París
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780061479670
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Arriving in Paris for their inaugural meeting during the 1889 World's Fair, an exclusive society of the world's most renowned detectives wonders at the absence of its co-founding member, who has sent a secret message about a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Pablo De Santis ; translated from Spanish by Mara Lethem.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Historical fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Poet's Wedding
Translator(s): Susan Giersbach-Rascón
Author: Antonio Skármeta
Original work: La boda del poeta
Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 288 pp.
ISBN: 9781566492492
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the end of the 19th century, a successful store owner, Stamos Marikanis, marries GemaUs most beautiful woman. But his bride dies in a bizarre accident. Twenty years later, Stamos comes back to life in the form of Jeronimo… read more

Title: The Pope's Secrets : Uncovering the Vatican Conspiracy Against the Church
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Camilo Perez
Original work: Los secretos del papa : destapando la conspiración vaticana contra la iglesia
Publisher: Epaphax Books
City: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 9780971904606

Title: The Postman
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Antonio Skármeta
Original work: Ardiente paciencia
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 112 pp.
ISBN: 9780393330397
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tender book about a simple man and what he learns about poetry, love, politics and life from his friend.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Potbellied Virgin
Translator(s): Amalia Gladhart
Author: Alicia Yánez Cossío
Original work: La Cofradía del Mullo del Vestido de la Virgen Pipona
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 176 pp.
ISBN: 9780292714106
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In an unnamed town in the Ecuadorian Andes, a small wooden icon - La Virgen Pipona (the Potbellied Virgin) - conceals the documents that define the town's social history. That history has been dominated by the women of the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans