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 Captain of the Sleeping
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mayra Montero
Original work: El capitán de los dormidos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 181 pp.
ISBN: 0374118825
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For fifty years Andres Yasin has held a grudge against J.T. Bunker for an alleged affair with Andres' mother. Will the truth finally come out after all these years?
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Cardboard House
Translator(s): Katherine Silver, Rick London
Author: Martín Adán
Original work: La casa de cartón
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 126 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219594
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The novel presents a stunning series of flashes scenes, moods, dreams, and weather as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction

Title: The Cardboard House
Translator(s): José Garay Boszeta
Author: Martín Adán
Original work: La casa de cartón
Publisher: Dulzorada
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 157 pp.
ISBN: 9780578690162
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Originally published in Perú in 1928 to great acclaim, The Cardboard House was clearly destined to become a classic. Written during Martín Adán's prodigious adolescence in Barranco —a peaceful sea resort in the coast of Lima—,… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction

Title: The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El caballero del jubón amarillo
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 369 pp.
ISBN: 0399156038
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Struggling to fit into the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, reluctantly remain in the employ of the crown for their unique services but find their prospects… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Historical fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, History, Adventure fiction

Title: The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El caballero del jubón amarillo
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 369 pp.
ISBN: 9780399156038
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, with its posh theaters and gleaming palaces, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Historical fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, History, Adventure fiction

Title: The Celestina : A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue
Translator(s): Lesley B. Simpson
Author: Fernando de Rojas
Original work: La Celestina
Publisher: University of California Press
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9780520309593
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Celestina is considered by scholars to be the first European novel. Written in fifteenth-century Spain, this masterpiece is remarkable for its originality, depth, handling of dialogue, and drawing of character. The novel's… read more

Title: The Cells of Terror
Translator(s): Ellis Ging
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 67 pp.
ISBN: 9781934909737
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The Cells of Terror consists of twenty-four stories, all very short, scientifically formulated, about the cells that are the origin of terror--which is to say, about a few of the key situations that sow in the hearts of human… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Chase
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 121 pp.
ISBN: 0816638098
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alejo Carpentier ; translated by Alfred MacAdam ; introduction by Timothy Brennan.

Title: The Children of Mount Eden
Translator(s): María Bennet
Author: Tomás Modesto Galán
Original work: Los niños del Monte Edén : cuentos
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 201 pp.
ISBN: 9781493741083
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This book is a collection of stories that will echo in the hearts of all who are familiar with this kind of life, but perhaps can – even more significantly-- create the illusion of an echo even in those people, who perhaps… read more

Title: The City of Mist : Stories
Translator(s): Lucia Graves, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La ciudad de vapor : todos los cuentos
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 9780063143159
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a complete collection of the author's short stories, some of which were not previously published. The stories are mysterious, imbued with a sense of menace, and told with the warmth, wit, and humor of Zafón's inimitable… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: The City of the Discreet
Translator(s): Jacob S. Fassett
Author: Pío Baroja
Original work: La feria de los discretos
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 356 pp.
ISBN: 9781354444795
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original… read more

Title: The Clerk
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Guillermo Saccomanno
Original work: El oficinista
Publisher: Open Letter, literary translations from the University of Rochester
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 138 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830256
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Perfectly normal men and women head to their desks every day in a city laid to waste by guerrilla incursions, menaced by hordes of starving people, murderous children and cloned dogs, patrolled by armed helicopters, and plagued… read more
Literary Genre: Dystopian fiction, Fiction, Dystopias

Title: The Clouds
Translator(s): Hilary Vaughn Dobel
Author: Juan José Saer
Original work: Las nubes
Publisher: Open Letter, literary translations from the University of Rochester
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 9781940953342
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Garay receives a computer disk containing a manuscript--which might be fictional, or could be a memoir--by Doctor Real, a nineteenth-century physician tasked with leading a group of five mental patients on a trip to a recently… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction

Title: The Club Dumas
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El club Dumas
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 362 pp.
ISBN: 9780156032834
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lucas Corso, a rare book hunter, is called in to authenticate a fragment of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers," found in the possession of a murdered bibliophile, and soon finds himself involved… read more

Title: The Cockslayer
Translator(s): Richard McCallister
Author: Richard McCallister
Original work: El matagallos
Publisher: Casasola Editores
City: Washington D.C.
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9781942369073
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The life of a fictional Salvadoran bureaucrat and the havoc, destruction, and misery he causes.

Title: The Color of Summer, or, The New Garden of Earthly Delights
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Viking
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9780670840656
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Arenas's finest comic achievement is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonia, a five-volume cycle of autobiographical novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate installment in… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Color of Summer, Or, The New Garden of Earthly Delights
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 465 pp.
ISBN: 0140157190
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Color of Summer: Or The New Garden of Earthly Delights
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 465 pp.
ISBN: 0140157190
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Colors of Memory
Translator(s): Gabriela Tagliavini
Author: Gabriela Tagliavini
Original work: Los colores de la memoria
Publisher: Herodias
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 9781928746171
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Facing death from cancer in a Mexican hospital, Carla Arnone escapes from the hospital to California with a ten-year-old boy, relating her life story to "the kid" and her obsession with colors before they reach their… read more

Title: The Colors of Memory
Translator(s): Gabriela Tagliavini
Author: Gabriela Tagliavini
Original work: Los colores de la memoria
Publisher: Herodias
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9781928746171
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Facing death from cancer in a Mexican hospital, Carla Arnone escapes from the hospital to California with a ten-year-old boy, relating her life story to "the kid" and her obsession with colors before they reach their destination.