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 Movies of My Life
Translator(s): Ezra E. Fitz
Author: Alberto Fuguet
Original work: Las películas de mi vida
Publisher: Rayo
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 287 pp.
ISBN: 0060534621
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Beltran Soler is from Chile, a land in constant movement. A seismologist who knows more about the science of tectonic plate movement than about life, he is cocooned in a world of seismic data, scientific articles, and natural… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Mule
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Juan Eslava Galán
Original work: La mula
Publisher: Bantam Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 290 pp.
ISBN: 0553385089
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Soon to be a major motion picture, this tender, satirical, antiwar novel--now available in English for the first time--vividly captures the tedium, propaganda, and absurdity of war as it explores the joys of true friendship in a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Mule
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Juan Eslava Galán
Original work: La mula
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9780553385083
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A simple muleteer caught up in the Spanish Civil War, Juan Castro Přez struggles to make his way home, confronting unrequited love, conflicts with both sides of the war, and exploitation by an opportunistic journalist, a German… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Murmur of Bees
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Sofía Segovia
Original work: El murmullo de las abejas
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 461 pp.
ISBN: 9781542040495
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition,… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Novels, Magic realist fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Romans

Title: The Museum of Eterna's Novel : the First Good Novel
Translator(s): Margaret Schwartz
Author: Macedonio Fernández
Original work: Museo de la novela de la eterna
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824061
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Museum or Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) is a book ahead of its time. Written during the 1930s and '40s - the heyday of Argentine literary culture - Museum is in many ways an "anti-novel: It opens with more… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Macedonio Fernández ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Schwartz ; preface by Adam Thirlwell ; introduction by the translator.
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Fiction

Title: The Museum of Useless Efforts
Translator(s): Tobias Hecht
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: El museo de los esfuerzos inútiles
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 156 pp.
ISBN: 9780803287648
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite ordinary. Crafting… read more

Title: The musical brain and other stories
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: El cerebro musical
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 9780811220293
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A collection of twenty short stories features tales about oddballs, freaks, and crazy people.
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: The Mutations
Translator(s): Charlotte Whittle
Author: Jorge Comensal
Original work: Las mutaciones
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 184 pp.
ISBN: 9780374216535
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City. Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when his privileged life… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Humorous fiction, Medical fiction, Romans

Title: The Naked Rainbow and Other Stories = El Arco Iris Desnudo y Otros Cuentos
Translator(s): Nasario García
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9780826345998
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of fictional stories based upon the personal experiences of the author and folklorist, Nasario García.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Naked Woman
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Armonía Etchepare Locino
Original work: La mujer desnuda
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: First Feminist Press edition
Number of pages: 154 pp.
ISBN: 9781936932436
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A woman's feminist awakening drives a hypocritical village to madness in rural Uruguay.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Feminist fiction, Historical, Magic realism (literature)

Title: The Naked Woman
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Armonía Etchepare Locino
Original work: La mujer desnuda
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
ISBN: 9781936932443
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Longlisted for the 2018 National Translation Award "A wild, brutal paean to freedom...' Somers' feminism is profound, and complicated." -NPR "A surreal, nightmarish book about women's struggle for autonomy-and how that struggle… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Feminist fiction, Historical, Magic realism (literature)

Title: The Nautical Chart
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher: Harcourt
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 466 pp.
ISBN: 0151005346
Additional Information: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romantic suspense fiction

Title: The Nautical Chart
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher: Harcourt
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 466 pp.
ISBN: 9780151005345
Summary/Reviews: (Publisher description) Coy is a Suspended Sailor without a ship. At an auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century. Tanger uses her considerable… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romantic suspense fiction

Title: The Neighborhood
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: Cinco esquinas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780374155124
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History

Title: The Neruda Case
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Roberto Ampuero
Original work: El caso Neruda
Publisher: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 340 pp.
ISBN: 9781594487439
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling literary luminary. Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brule are an international… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Night Buffalo
Author: Guillermo Arriaga Jordán
Original work: El búfalo de la noche
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9780743281867
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Night Buffalo is set in Mexico City, revolving around the mysterious suicide of Gregorio, a charismatic but troubled young man who was betrayed by the two people he trusted most. The beautifully rendered narrative is driven… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans

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