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 Sound of Things Falling
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: El ruido de las cosas al caer
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 302 pp.
ISBN: 9781594632747
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young lawyer reflects on the mid-twentieth-century uprising between Pablo Escobar's drug cartel and government forces that trapped Pablo's community in a nightmarish existence and culminated in a friend's murder.
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

Title: The Steps : Stories from Heaven & Inferno | Los pasos cuentos del cielo y del infierno
Translator(s): Timothy Pratt, Mireya Pérez
Author: Luz E. Macías
Original work: Los pasos : cuentos del cielo y del infierno = The steps : stories from heaven and inferno
Publisher: La Casa del Hada Editores
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 7 pp.
ISBN: 9789583315183

Title: The Sterile Seed
Translator(s): José Z. Tallet
Author: José Z. Tallet
Original work: La semilla estéril
Publisher: Cefatex International
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 371 pp.
ISBN: 9780965623285

Title: The Stories of Eva Luna
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 330 pp.
ISBN: 0743217187
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Collection of twenty-three short stories of Argentinean peasants and patricians, revolutionaries and tyrants, and seductresses and fortune tellers.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Picaresque fiction, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles, Romans picaresques

Title: The Story of H
Translator(s): Valerie Miles
Author: Marina Perezagua
Original work: Yoro
Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 284 pp.
ISBN: 9780062660718
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the wake of the inferno unleashed over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, two stories unfold: that of Jim, an American soldier when the bomb dropped, and H, a mere schoolgirl at the time. Both victims of the bomb, the two cross… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: The story of my teeth
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Original work: La historia de mis dientes
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 195 pp.
ISBN: 9781566894104
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Romans, Fictional work

Title: The Story of My Teeth
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Original work: La historia de mis dientes
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 195 pp.
ISBN: 9781566894098
Summary/Reviews: (Back cover) Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez Sanchez is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the 'Notorious Infamous' like Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton,… read more
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Romans, Fictional work

Title: The Storyteller
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Picador
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 0312420285
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the Publisher: At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man-that the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen Lane.
Literary Genre: Spanish literature, Translations

Title: The Strongest Passion
Translator(s): Clary Loisel
Author: Luis Zapata
Original work: La más fuerte pasión
Publisher: Floricanto Press
City: Mountain View, CA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780915745760
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Using only dialogue as its narrative technique, Luis Zapata recounts the story of his protagonist Santiago, a middle-aged businessman hopelessly in love with Arturo, a 19-year-old teenager, who is the son of Sarita, his best… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: The Sugar Cane Curtain
Translator(s): Zilia L. Laje
Author: Zilia L. Laje
Original work: La cortina de bagazo
Publisher: Guarina
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 536 pp.
ISBN: 9780964622418

Title: The Summer of Dead Toys
Translator(s): Laura McGloughlin
Author: Toni Hill
Original work: El verano de los juguetes muertos
Publisher: Black Swan
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 378 pp.
ISBN: 9780552778268
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inspector Hector Salgado is known for his violent moments. He has a murky emotional past and a runaway wife. So he is moved off his current case to investigate the story behind a young boys fall to his death from a balcony in one… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Summer of Dead Toys : A Thriller
Translator(s): Laura McGloughlin
Author: Toni Hill
Original work: El verano de los juguetes muertos
Publisher: Crown Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9780770435875
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inspector Hector Salgado is a transplanted Argentine living in Barcelona. While working on a human trafficking case, Salgado's violent temper got the best of him and he beat a suspect within an inch of his life. Ordered on… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Summer of Dead Toys : A Thriller
Translator(s): Laura McGloughlin
Author: Toni Hill
Original work: El verano de los juguetes muertos
Publisher: Broadway Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 362 pp.
ISBN: 9780770435899
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inspector Hector Salgado is known for his violent moments. He has a murky emotional past and a runaway wife. So he is moved off his current case to investigate the story behind a young boy's fall to his death from a balcony in… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Sun Over Breda
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El sol de Breda
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 273 pp.
ISBN: 9780399153839
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquézar.

Title: The Sun Over Breda
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El sol de Breda
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 282 pp.
ISBN: 9780452289741
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquézar/

Title: The Surprising Adventures of Balthazar
Translator(s): Christine Cervenak, Alejandra Mendez
Author: Claudio Orrego Vicuña
Original work: Las sorprendentes memorias de Baltazar
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
City: Scranton, PA
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 82 pp.
ISBN: 9781589662186
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recounts the experiences of Baltazar, a polar bear of wisdom and humor, after he is captured by hunters and confined in an urban zoo, in a satiric novel orginally written shortly after the 1973 Chilean coup.

Title: The Table Dancer's Tale
Translator(s): Sabina C. Becker
Author: Lupita Dominguez
Original work: Historias del table dance
Publisher: Editorial Mazatlan
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 9781937799199
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With stories collected through years of work as a table dancer, these true tales uncover a world of night clubs filled with housewives, mothers, students, drug addicts, minors, and illegal aliens working as dancers. The stories… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Taiga Syndrome
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine, Aviva Kana
Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
Original work: El mal de la taiga
Publisher: Dorothy, a Publishing project
City: St. Louis, MO
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 121 pp.
ISBN: 9780997366679
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Follows an unnamed female Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down-- that she… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction