On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Así empieza lo malo
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 443 pp.
ISBN: 9781101946084
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Love stories
Translator(s): Daniel Balderston
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 354 pp.
ISBN: 9781590177679
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Hardie St. Martin
Author: Sylvia Iparraguirre
Original work: Tierra del fuego
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 1880684721
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Tierra del Fuego is a suspenseful seafaring tale in the tradition of Horatio Hornblower, enriched by a chilling psychological and cultural tale that probes deeply into human nature - one reminiscent of Heart of Darkness or… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Sea stories, Romans
Translator(s): Howard Curtis
Author: Francisco Coloane
Original work: Tierra del Fuego
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 187 pp.
ISBN: 9781933372631
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of nine short stories set in the bleak and unforgiving landscape of Chile's southern islands explores the harsh reality of the baseness of human nature.
Translator(s): Nathan C. Henne
Author: Luis de Lión
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 119 pp.
ISBN: 129919205
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tells the story of a violent village crisis in Guatemala sparked by the return of a prodigal son, Pascual. He had been raised tough by a poor, single mother in the village before going off with the military. When Pascual comes… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Title: Timote
Translator(s): David William Foster
Author: José Pablo Feinmann
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
City: Lubbock, TX
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 216 pp.
ISBN: 9780896728066
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A fictionalization of the 1970 abduction and execution of Argentinean general and former president Pablo Eugenio Aramburu.Introduction by Douglas Unger.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction
Title: Tinisima
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: Tinísima
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 353 pp.
ISBN: 9780826341235
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For this fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti (1896-1942), Elena Poniatowska devoted ten years of research to understand the woman who was so caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II… read more
Translator(s): Gavin Hyde, Juan Fernández
Author: Floreal Hernández
Original work: Morir en Isla Vista
Publisher: Publishing by the Seas
City: Santa Barbara, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 9781940654904
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) To Die in the USA portrays, not unlike Citizen Kane, the metaphorical death, and life of a Spanish exile. Set mainly in California and New York, but also in Spain, England, France, Venezuela, Colombia, and Chile, this work is a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Samuel Nyal Henrie
Author: José Antonio Bravo
Original work: A la hora del tiempo
Publisher: Hats Off Books
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 1587360004
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The novel portrays a love triangle, as the two Peruvians protagonists--Melisa, a young artist, and Miguel, a middle-aged writer--jaunt about Europe in search of themselves and their roots, finding the joy of love and the anxiety… read more
Translator(s): Guillermo Bleichmar
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 419 pp.
ISBN: 9780374190255
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "A novel tracing the path of a nameless wanderer as he walks the length of Manhattan and beyond-from South Ferry to the Grand Concourse in the Bronx-taking note of all the literary and historical ghosts haunting him, and the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Romans
Translator(s): John King
Author: Ray Loriga
Original work: Tokio ya no nos quiere
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 0802141471
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Set in the very near future, Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore is the story of a traveling salesman floating from arid Arizona parking lots to steamy Bangkok bars to peddle the hottest new commodity for a group known only as the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Tomás Nevinson
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 640 pp.
ISBN: 9780593534588
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited by British intelligence. Thou shalt not kill. But, as our narrator admits, "Killing is not so extreme or so difficult… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Fiction, Novels, Spy fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Romans
Title: Tomb Song
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Julián Herbert
Original work: Canción de tumba
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9781555977993
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sitting at the bedside of his mother as she is dying from leukemia in a hospital in northern Mexico, Julián is immersed in memories of his unstable boyhood and youth. Guadalupe was a prostitute, and Julián spent his childhood… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction, Translations
Title: Tomochic
Author: Heriberto Frías
Original work: Tomóchic
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 208 pp.
ISBN: 0195117433
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the fictional narration of a military campaign ordered by the dictator Porfirio Diaz in October 1892, which resulted in the massacre of the village of Tomochic. The work is narrated by an eyewitness, the author, and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 313 pp.
ISBN: 0811214826
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "No one ever suspects, " begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms ..." Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 310 pp.
ISBN: 9780307950758
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Marta, the woman with whom he was about to begin an affair, suddenly dies in his arms, Víctor first considers walking away but is unable to resist delving into Marta's dark secrets.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 0486434303
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The 1889 novella Torquemada at the Stake focuses on a character who had appeared in previous works by Galdós (and who would reappear in three subsequent novels). Named after the infamous Grand Inquisitor of the fifteenth… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Title: Trafalgar
Translator(s): Amalia Gladhart
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Original work: Trafalgar
Publisher: Small Beer Press
City: Easthampton, MA
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9781618730336
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nobody knows if Trafalgar Medrano actually travels to the stars, but whenever he is in town he stretches his stories out over at least seven coffees and everyone knows he is the best storyteller in town.
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Science fiction
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Osvaldo Fernández Gordián
Publisher: iUniverse
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 186 pp.
ISBN: 1450229077
Author: Andrés Neuman
Original work: El viajero del siglo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 564 pp.
ISBN: 9780374119393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans