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 Red of His Shadow
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mayra Montero
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 159 pp.
ISBN: 0066210593
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It is Holy Week, and the Haitian sugar cane harvesters can temporarily lose themselves in the fervor of voudou. But amidst the colorful festival, a struggle for power, as well as a ferocious passion, develops between Mistress… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mayra Montero ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: The Red Sea
Translator(s): Patricia Dubrava
Author: Rafael Courtoisie
Original work: El mar rojo
Publisher: SRLR Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 99 pp.
ISBN: 0972454217
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Rafael Courtoisie, born in Uruguay in 1958, is a writer and poet who has won various international awards for both his fiction and his poetry, most recently the Jaime Sabines International Poetry Prize, 2002. The Red Sea, is… read more

Title: The Reef
Translator(s): Yvette Siegert
Author: Juan Villoro
Original work: Arrecife
Publisher: George Braziller, Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 9780807600214
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The ex Rock Star Mario Müller discovers a visionary possibility in the Caribbean: the pleasures of fear. On the banks of an enormous coral reef The Pyramid is built, a resort that offers controlled dangers until a diver dies… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: The Regal Lemon Tree
Translator(s): Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Author: Juan José Saer
Original work: El limonero real
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830270
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set during day and night of New Year's Eve--building up a barbecue that takes on ritual significance--the novel focuses on a couple in the north of Argentina who lost their only son eight years prior. Wenceslao spends the day… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels

Title: The Remainder
Translator(s): Sophie Elizabeth Hughes, Lina Meruane
Author: Alia Trabucco Zerán
Original work: La resta
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 202 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895507
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner in the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Rest is Jungle and Other Stories
Translator(s): Harry Morales
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Host Publications
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 296 pp.
ISBN: 0924047682
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of short stories by Mario Benedetti that explores the gray area of life where people must make decisions with imperfect knowledge and flawed hearts.Contents:               … read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Return
Translator(s): Chris Andrews, Roberto, Roberto
Author: Ana María Shua
Original work: Short stories. Selections
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217156
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the title story of this collection, a dead man expresses his disdain for the film "Ghost" and describes the actual process by which one enters the afterlife and then return to haunt the earth.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Literary Genre: Translations

Title: The Return of the Young Prince
Translator(s): Oliver Brock
Author: Alejandro Guillermo Roemmers
Original work: El regreso del Joven Príncipe
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 208 pp.
ISBN: 9781780749563
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A man drives alone along the vast, desolate roads of Patagonia, a mystical land. He comes across a starving and helpless teenager, who is now the prince grown older and returned to Earth. The two travellers, extremely different… read more
Literary Genre: Fantasy fiction, Fiction

Title: The Right Intention
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Andrés Barba
Original work: La recta intención
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492068
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Nothing is simple for the men and women in Andrés Barba's stories. As they go about their lives, they are each tested by a single, destructive obsession. A runner puts his marriage at risk while training for a marathon; a… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Short stories, Fiction

Title: The Ring: The Last Knight Templar's Inheritance
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: Jorge Molist
Original work: El anillo : la herencia del último templario
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 379 pp.
ISBN: 9780743297516
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Ring follows a young New York lawyer who receives two rings -- one from her fiancé and one that will lead her on an unforgettable adventure in search of a Templar treasure that has remained hidden for centuries.

Title: The Rowdy, Rowdy Ranch
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Ethriam Cash Brammer
Original work: Allá en el Rancho Grande
Publisher: Piñata Books
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 26 pp.
ISBN: 1558854096
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) On El Rancho Grande, the grandchildren are not so interested in how Grandpa bought the ranch, but in what can be done on the ranch. The children play hide and seek in cornfields, under "the canopy of green leaves, golden… read more

Title: The Sadness of the Samurai
Translator(s): Mara Lethem
Author: Víctor del Árbol
Original work: La tristeza del samurái
Publisher: Henry Holt
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 388 pp.
ISBN: 9780805094756
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Isabel, a Spanish aristocrat living in the pro-Nazi Spain of 1941, becomes involved in a plot to kill her Fascist husband, she finds herself betrayed by her mysterious lover. The effects of her betrayal play out in a violent… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish literature -- translations into english, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Suspense fiction

Title: The Savage Detectives
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Los detectives salvajes
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 577 pp.
ISBN: 0374191484
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: To track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A… read more
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Fictional work, Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Romans

Title: The Savage Detectives
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Los detectives salvajes
Publisher: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 648 pp.
ISBN: 9780312427481
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Chronicles the strange journey of two Latin American poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, as seen through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Fictional work, Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Romans

Title: The Scale of Maps
Translator(s): Mark Schafer
Author: Belén Gopegui
Original work: La escala de los mapas
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 223 pp.
ISBN: 9780872865105
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sergio Prim is a staid and solitary middle-aged man who finds himself suddenly in love. A geographer by trade, but with a broken radar when it comes to navigating human relationships, he is thrown into a psychological crisis by… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Psychological fiction, Translations, Love stories

Title: The Scent of Buenos Aires : Stories
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 477 pp.
ISBN: 9781939810342
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) By one of Argentina's greatest contemporary storytellers, The Scent of Buenos Aires gathers twenty-five of Hebe Uhart's most remarkable and incandescent short stories in English for the first time. It draws together her best… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Scribe
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Antonio Garrido
Original work: La escriba
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 563 pp.
ISBN: 9781477848838
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The year is 799, and King Charlemagne awaits coronation as the Holy Roman emperor. But in the town of Würzburg, the young, willful Theresa dreams only of following in the footsteps of her scholarly father―a quiet man who taught… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction

Title: The Scroll of Seduction
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Gioconda Belli
Original work: El pergamino de la seducción
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 332 pp.
ISBN: 9780060833138
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Drawn to sixteen-year-old Lucia during a visit to Madrid's Prado museum, art historian Manuel draws parallels between Lucia and Juana the Mad, the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, whose story Lucia and Manuel find… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: The Scroll of Seduction
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Gioconda Belli
Original work: El pergamino de la seducción
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 325 pp.
ISBN: 0060833122
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Drawn to sixteen-year-old Lucia during a visit to Madrid's Prado museum, art historian Manuel draws parallels between Lucia and Juana the Mad, the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, whose story Lucia and Manuel find… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: The Seamstress and the Wind
Translator(s): Rosalie Knecht
Author: César Aira
Original work: Costurera y el viento
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219129
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A seamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local art teacher fears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has been accidentally kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. Completely unhinged, she calls a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Rosalie Knecht.
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Humorous fiction, Fables