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: 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
Author: Andrés Neuman
Original work: El viajero del siglo
Publisher: Pushkin
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 578 pp.
ISBN: 9781908968388
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In post-Napoleonic Germany, a traveller on his way to Dessau stops off for a night in the mysterious city of Wandernburg. He intends to move on the following day, but the town begins to ensnare him with its strange, shifting… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans
Title: Tristana
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Original work: Tristana
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 9781590177655
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Don Lope is a Don Juan, an aging but still effective predator on the opposite sex. He is also charming and generous, unhesitatingly contributing the better part of his fortune to pay off a friend's debts, kindly… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Peter Lownds
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Original work: Animal tropical
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 308 pp.
ISBN: 0786714999
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pedru Juan paints in his crumbling Havana apartment, beset by a growing sense of melancholy as he observes the lives of the hustlers, hipsters, and hookers in the city below. He is pursued by Gloria, a proud and sophisticated… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Patricia J. Duncan
Author: David Toscana
Original work: Estación Tula
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 0312205384
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The novel is three stories in one: the story of Juan Capistrán, an orphan destined to live a quixotic life in search of adventure and heroism; the life of Froylán Gómez, a man who will forever be in love with the fantasy of a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: David Toscano ; translated from the Spanish by Patricia J. Duncan.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Patricia J. Duncan
Author: David Toscana
Original work: Estación Tula
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9780312270971
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) After a hurricane smashes through the Mexican town of Tula, the narrator's friend is missing--seemingly carried off by the storm--but when his car turns up, filled with his papers, the disappeared man's wife is convinced that… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Lisa Carter
Author: Edmundo Paz Soldán
Original work: El delirio de Turing
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston, MA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 9780618541393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel "Turing" Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans, General info: other format available: online version:; paz soldán, edmundo, 1967-; delirio de turing english; turing's delirium; boston : houghton mifflin, 2006
Translator(s): Glenn Gardner
Author: Regina Moya García
Original work: El día del guajolote
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 309 pp.
ISBN: 9781539657040
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Regina, the author and main character of our story, is chased by her duties as a mother and homemaker, the transit authorities, Thanksgiving supper, her longing to write a new novel, and characters from stories written years… read more
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Jorge Magano
Publisher: Amazoncrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 370 pp.
ISBN: 9781503946347
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Spanish journalist and art historian Jaime Azcárate has always been a magnet for trouble. So when the authorities call on him to help investigate a museum heist while he’s enjoying a rare vacation, he is more annoyed than… read more
Title: Two Bodies
Translator(s): Claire Hirsch
Author: Nicolás Poblete
Original work: Dos cuerpos
Publisher: CreateSpace
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9781500441869
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Two Bodies is a text that obliquely intersects Chilean national history and the personal history of Esteban, stories that circle graves and bodies and that end up running into each other at a red letter. Fragments of events in… read more
Literary Genre: Linked stories, Political fiction, Psychological fiction
Author: Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Original work: Tirano Banderas
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 200 pp.
ISBN: 9781590174982
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for Garca Mrquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos's I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: Tirana memoria
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219174
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With pitch-perfect, pitch-black humor, this saga refracts through one family's struggles a whole country's nightmare. The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, spanish, Black humor, Fiction, History, Black humor (literature), Historical fiction, Humour noir
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9780292737778
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916-1998) and Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english