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: A Trip to Salto = Un Viaje a Salto
Translator(s): Stephanie Stewart
Author: Circe Maia
Original work: Un viaje a Salto
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 0967880874
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A mother and daughter try desperately to get to Salto, Uruguay, where their husband and father is being taken under military guard as a political prisoner, and the mother writes in her diary between 1972 and 1974.Postscript by… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish language materials, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: A True Story : A Cuban in New York
Translator(s): Regina Galasso
Author: Miguel Barnet
Original work: La vida real
Publisher: Jorge Pinto Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 226 pp.
ISBN: 9781934978351
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Miguel Barnet's A True Story is based on the life of Julián Mesa, a Cuban living in New York City. The novel spans the years between the 1930s to the 1980s as the protagonist moves from Cuba to the US. Throughout the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: A Tuesday Like Today
Translator(s): Clare E. Sullivan
Author: Cecilia Urbina
Original work: Un martes como hoy
Publisher: Wings Press
City: San Antonio, TX
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 9780916727475
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) During their travels in the Cambodian jungle, two sisters, Camila and Margara, meet David Masters-Iturbe and discover that they all have something in common--their Mexican heritage. The three proceed to tell stories in order to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: A Universal History of Iniquity
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Original work: Historia universal de la infamia
Publisher: Penguin
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 100 pp.
ISBN: 0142437891
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Black humor, Fiction, Humour noir, Nouvelles

Title: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes
Publisher: Susan Barnes : Washington University
City: St. Louis, MO
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 21 pp.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is a short story by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1955 in the journal Casa de las Américas. The story is a magical-realist allegory that follows the… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Illustrated books, Illustrated works, Magic realist fiction, Nouvelles, Ouvrages illustrés

Title: A Week in October
Translator(s): Marina Harss
Author: Elizabeth Subercaseaux
Original work: Una semana de octubre
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 208 pp.
ISBN: 9781590512883
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Week in October is a thriller for those who usually prefer a good love story. Clara Griffin, the beautiful wife of a successful Chilean architect, courageously confronts a life-threatening illness while recording her thoughts… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Love stories

Title: A Whistler in the Nightworld : Short Fiction from the Latin Americas
Translator(s): Thomas Colchie
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 410 pp.
ISBN: 9780452283589
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of twenty-one short stories representing some of the finest work by today's Latin American writers.Contents:                 Flight / Mayra Santos-Febres ; Nothing to do… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: A Working Woman
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Elvira Navarro
Original work: La trabajadora
Publisher: Two Lines Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 9781931883658
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An ambitious tale of feminine friendship, madness, a radically changing city, and the vulnerability that makes us divulge our most shameful secrets. It begins as Elisa transcribes the chaotic testimony of her roommate Susana,… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: A World for Julius
Translator(s): Dick Gerdes
Author: Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Original work: Un mundo para Julius
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 430 pp.
ISBN: 0299196747
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his… read more

Title: A Zero-Sum Game
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Eduardo Rabasa
Original work: La suma de los ceros
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 425 pp.
ISBN: 9781941920381
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A satirical look at the origins of power, A Zero-Sum Game uses the highly-charged election for the presidency of a residents' committee and the influence of a powerful stranger to both expose those in power and sympathize with… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Political fiction, Satirical literature

Title: About Spirits and Other Mysteries = Sobre Espiritus y Otros Misterios
Translator(s): Manuel Martínez, Sara E. Cooper
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Cubanabooks
City: Chico, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 549 pp.
ISBN: 9781944176105
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Díaz Llanillo is known for her blending of paranormal fantasy with black humor and metaphysical undertones; her short fiction has been described as bizarre, uncanny, absurd, macabre, intellectual and ironic. Her work explores… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Above the Rain
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Víctor del Árbol
Original work: Por encima de la lluvia
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 592 pp.
ISBN: 9781635429954
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the latest novel from a master of European crime fiction, past, present, and future intertwine on a breathtaking journey from Tangier in 1955 to Malmö in 2014. Miguel and Helena meet at a nursing home in Tarifa, at an age when… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Thrillers (fiction)

Title: Abrupt Mutations
Translator(s): Priscilla Hunter
Author: Enrique Luis Revol
Original work: Mutaciones bruscas
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 305 pp.
ISBN: 9781628972313
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Abrupt Mutations leads the reader on a humorous, meandering tour of 1960s Megalopolis, at the heart of which is a hotly anticipated gathering of the city's culturati at the home of O Jango, a Brazilian billionaire and aesthete… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Fantasy fiction, Fiction

Title: Abyss
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Pilar Quintana
Original work: Los abismos
Publisher: World Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9781642861228
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction, Novels, Bildungsromans, Romans

Title: Acid Test
Translator(s): Mark Fried
Author: Élmer Mendoza
Original work: La prueba del ácido
Publisher: MacLehose Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 240 pp.
ISBN: 9781681442891
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is found by the side of a dusty road, detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra had no shortage of… read more

Title: Adam in Eden
Translator(s): E. Shaskan Bumas, Alejandro Branger
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Adán en Edén
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 201 pp.
ISBN: 9781564787965
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A respected Mexican businessman finds his idyllic life crumbling in the face of his wife's infidelity with a corrupt director of national security, his brother-in-law's worship of a child preacher, and his mistress' break with… read more
Literary Genre: Legal fiction, Legal fiction (literature), Fiction, Humorous fiction, Romans judiciaires

Title: Adam's Secret
Translator(s): Diane Stockwell
Author: Guillermo Ferrara
Original work: El secreto de Adán
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 346 pp.
ISBN: 9781612185613
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A passionate novel that unite the activation of DNA, the mystery of sexual alchemy, the Atlantis, Earth's ascent as forecasted by the 2010 Mayan prophesy, cover-up conspiracies between the secret government and the Catholic… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Adios Hemingway
Translator(s): John King
Author: Leonardo Padura
Original work: Adiós, Hemingway
Publisher: Canongate
City: London
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9781841955414
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a detective story set against the backdrop of Hemingway's Cuba, the discovery of the skeletal remains of the victim of a forty-year-old murder on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, draws ex-cop Mario Conte back into the… read more

Title: Adios Muchachos
Author: Daniel Chavarría
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 1888451165
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Fiction. Latin/Latina Studies. In Havana, Cuba, a beautiful young woman rides a bicycle through the city streets to lure men into her "services". Desperate to escape her dead-end life in a city plagued with scarcity, the luscious… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Daniel Chavarría ; translation by Carlos Lopez.
Literary Genre: Picaresque literature, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Romans

Title: Ado's Plot of Land
Translator(s): Priscilla Gac-Artigas
Author: Gustavo Gac-Artigas
Original work: El solar de Ado
Publisher: Ediciones Nuevo Espacio
City: Fair Haven, NJ
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 202 pp.
ISBN: 1930879326