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, MN
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
Translator(s): Laura McGloughlin
Author: Toni Hill
Original work: El verano de los juguetes muertos
Publisher: Anchor Canada
City: Toronto
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 362 pp.
ISBN: 9780385678728
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) When the death of a vulnerable young witness in a case of human trafficking and voodoo causes the normally calm Police Inspector Hector Salgado to beat someone up, he is moved off the project and sent instead to investigate a… 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