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 Shadow of the Wind
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La sombra del viento
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 486 pp.
ISBN: 1594200106
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Barcelona, 1945: just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: The Shadow of the Wind
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La sombra del viento
Publisher: Phoenix Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 506 pp.
ISBN: 9780752859545
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son, Daniel, one cold morning in 1945… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: The Shadow of the Wind (Excerpt)
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La sombra del viento
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 511 pp.
ISBN: 9780143126393
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: The Shadow of What We Were
Translator(s): Howard Curtis
Author: Luis Sepúlveda
Original work: La sombra de lo que fuimos
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9781609450021
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Three old members of Chile's Socialist Liberation Army have been summoned by the anarchist known as The Shadow to carry out one last revolutionary mission. The Shadow disappears before he can meet with them, though, and now one… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Political fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Shape of the Ruins
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: La forma de las ruinas
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 509 pp.
ISBN: 9780735211148
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Novels, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The She-devil in the Mirror
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: Diabola en el espejo
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218467
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Laura Rivera can't believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in her own living room! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger or who might have masterminded the murder, but Laura - an upper-… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Horror fiction

Title: The Sickness
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Alberto Barrera
Original work: La enfermedad
Publisher: Quercus
City: London
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 151 pp.
ISBN: 9781935639268
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The fixation has its own… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Siege
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El asedio
Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 598 pp.
ISBN: 9781400069682
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Cádiz, 1811. The Spanish port city has been surrounded by Napoleon's army for a year. Their backs to the sea, its residents endure routine bombardments and live in constant fear of a French invasion. And now the bodies of… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Thrillers (fiction)

Title: The Silence of the White City
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Eva García Sáenz
Original work: El silencio de la ciudad blanca
Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 508 pp.
ISBN: 9781984898593
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Already a major bestseller in Spain and Latin America, the first installment of the sensational Trilogy of the White City introduces Inspector Unai López de Ayala and follows his hunt for a terrifying serial killer. Young… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Sister : A Novel of Emily Dickinson
Translator(s): William Rowlandson
Author: Paola Kaufmann
Original work: La hermana
Publisher: Overlook/Rookery
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 1585679518
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale based on the life of the reclusive classic author follows her precarious relationship with her parents, her hidden passions and aspirations, her secret views on religion and love, and her interactions with the men in her… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Sixty-five Years of Washington
Translator(s): Steve Dolph
Author: Juan José Saer
Original work: Glosa
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824207
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A wealthy, elegant, educated man returns to the seaside Argentinean city of Santa Fe and befriends a newcomer to the area and the two men's lives take drastically different paths that lead them both back to the same point.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan José Saer ; translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Skating Rink
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: A New Directions Book
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217132
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a civil servant secretly uses public funds to build her a skating rink in the ruins of a seaside mansion, but Nuria has affairs and soon the rink becomes a crime… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Literary Genre: Noir fiction, Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Fiction

Title: The Skin of the Sky
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: La piel del cielo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 0374265755
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Skin of the Sky is the story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant and troubled astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother, brothers,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Skin of the Sky
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: La piel del cielo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780374265755
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Skin of the Sky is the story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant and troubled astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Skin of the Sky
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: La piel del cielo
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780826341204
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The illegitimate son of a wealthy Mexico City businessman and a poor, but intelligent, peasant woman, Lorenzo is introduced to science (pasteurization and the wonders of flight) by his mother, beginning his lifelong passion. This… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Sky over Lima
Translator(s): Andrea Rosenberg
Author: Juan Gómez Bárcena
Original work: El cielo de Lima
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
City: Boston
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 275 pp.
ISBN: 9780544630055
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A retelling of a fantastical true story: two young men seduce Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jiménez with the words of an imaginary woman and inspire one of his greatest love poems. Jose Galvez and Carlos Rodriguez are poets. Or, at… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction

Title: The Song of the Distant Root
Author: Elizabeth Subercaseaux
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 88 pp.
ISBN: 1891270117
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Elizabeth Subercaseaux ; translation and foreword by John J. Hassett.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Allegories, Romans

Title: The Sound of Things Falling
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Ruido de las cosas al caer
Publisher: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 9781594487484
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realizes that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Speed of Light
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Original work: La velocidad de la luz
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 1596912146
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young would-be writer from Catalonia meets Vietnam veteran Rodney Falk at a Midwestern university in 1987, but it is only years later, when he is a successful novelist, that he begins to understand what Rodney reveals about… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Spirit of Science Fiction
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: El espíritu de la ciencia-ficción
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 196 pp.
ISBN: 9780735222854
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mexico, 1970s. Jan and Remo find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world- or sacrifice themselves to it. The city tugs… read more
Literary Genre: Novels