TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
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Translations
Title: The Neighborhood
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas LlosaOriginal work: Cinco esquinas
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9781250310361
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History
Title: The Neruda Case
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Roberto AmpueroOriginal work: El caso Neruda
Publisher: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 340 pp.
ISBN: 9781594487439
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling literary luminary. Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brule are an international… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Title: The Night
Translator(s): Daniel Hahn, Noel Hernández González
Author: Rodrigo Blanco CalderónOriginal work: The night
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 349 pp.
ISBN: 9781644210406
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount… read more
Title: The Night Buffalo
Author: Guillermo Arriaga JordánOriginal work: El búfalo de la noche
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9780743281867
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Night Buffalo is set in Mexico City, revolving around the mysterious suicide of Gregorio, a charismatic but troubled young man who was betrayed by the two people he trusted most. The beautifully rendered narrative is driven… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Title: The Night Buffalo
Author: Guillermo Arriaga JordánOriginal work: El búfalo de la noche
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 0743281853
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer Guillermo Arriaga weaves a luminous, insightful story of love and friendship, passion and betrayal, lunacy and mental illness. Set in Mexico City, The Night Buffalo revolves around… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Title: The Night Travelers
Author: Armando Lucas CorreaOriginal work: La viajera nocturna
Publisher: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 354 pp.
ISBN: 9781501187988
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Novels, Romans
Original work: La viajera nocturna
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 527 pp.
ISBN: 9781638086055
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Novels, Romans
Title: The Night Will Be Long
Translator(s): Andrea Rosenberg
Author: Santiago GamboaOriginal work: Será larga la noche
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 392 pp.
ISBN: 9781609457112
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When a horribly violent confrontation occurs outside of Cauca, Colombia, only a young boy is around to witness it. But no sooner does the violence happen than it disappears, vanished without a trace. Nobody claims to have seen… read more
Translator(s): Darren Koolman
Author: Luis ChitarroniOriginal work: Peripecias del no : diario de una novela inconclusa
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9781564787293
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A dizzying look at the backrooms of literature, with petty squabbles, long-nurtured grudges, envied or undeserved prizes, failing publishers, and self-important critics, The No Variations is a serious game, or perhaps a frivolous… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, General info: other format available: print version:; chitarroni, luis, 1958-; peripecias del no english; no variations; first edition
Title: The No World Concerto
Translator(s): Darren Koolman, Rhett McNeil
Author: Antoni García PortaOriginal work: Concierto del no mundo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 364 pp.
ISBN: 9781564788610
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hailed as one of the top ten Spanish-language novels of the decade, The No World Concerto is a many-layered puzzle concerning an old screenwriter who has holed up in a shabby hotel in a never-named but familiar city in order to… read more
Literary Genre: General fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Erotic fiction, Romans
Title: The North Face of the Heart
Translator(s): Michael Meigs
Author: Dolores RedondoOriginal work: La cara norte del corazón
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 473 pp.
ISBN: 9781542022323
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie. And… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Mystery fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): David Coulter
Author: Eugenio Fernández GranellOriginal work: La novela del indio Tupinamba
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 205 pp.
ISBN: 9780872867468
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Picaresque novel of the Spanish Civil War written by one of the most important post-WWII members of the Surrealist Movement. Written by Galician surrealist artist and communist revolutionary E.F. Granell, The Novel of the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Political fiction, Picaresque fiction, War stories, Allegories
Title: The Nubian Prince
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Juan BonillaOriginal work: Los príncipes nubios
Publisher: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 258 pp.
ISBN: 0805077812
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A comic odyssey of a hapless hero ensnared by globalization, humanitarian aid, and the international sex trade, this story takes place in a pitiless world where the have-nots will do anything to become haves, while the privileged… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Title: The Obscene Bird of Night
Translator(s): Hardie St. Martin, Leonard Mades
Author: José DonosoOriginal work: El obsceno pájaro de la noche
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc.
City: Boston, MA
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 438 pp.
ISBN: 1567920462
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Humberto, who lives and works at a convent home for old women, loses his sanity as he becomes obsessed with black magic and his duty to protect a monstrous child.
Translator(s): H. E. Francis
Author: Norberto Luis RomeroOriginal work: El lado oculto de la noche
Publisher: Otis Books
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 93 pp.
ISBN: 9780986017384
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) I know what really happened.I read in the fat man's annals my mother's memory and my false father's words:"Watch out for the yellow amatory gloves. At times they escape from the confines of the fat man and… read more
Title: The Obstacles
Translator(s): Ezra E. Fitz
Author: Eloy Urroz KananOriginal work: Las Rémoras
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 350 pp.
ISBN: 1564784274
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One of the most remarkable books of contemporary Mexican literature, The Obstacles is the story of young writers coming of age in a world dominated entirely by their own fictions. It tells, in alternating chapters, the stories of… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction
Title: The Octopus Deception
Translator(s): Daniel Estulin
Author: Daniel Estulin Original work: Conspiración Octopus
Publisher: Trine Day
City: Walterville, OR
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 234 pp.
ISBN: 9781937584238
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this timely political thriller, CIA special agent Curtis Fitzgerald, scholar Simone Casoloro, and historian Michael Asbury, must race against the clock to find trillions of dollars worth of stolen funds to prevent global… read more
Title: The Old Gringo
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos FuentesOriginal work: Gringo viejo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 0374530521
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American author, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers - particularly his encounter with one of Villa's… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, History
Title: The Old Gringo
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos FuentesOriginal work: Gringo viejo
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 9780374525224
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The celebrated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disapeared in Mexico during its civil war. In this brilliant novel, Carlos Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among Pancho Villa's troops and dramatizes… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, History
Title: The One Before
Translator(s): Roanne L. Kantor
Author: Juan José SaerOriginal work: La mayor
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824788
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of a series of short pieces with two novellas, treating many of the same characters.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels© 2025 - Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos