TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
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Translations
Translator(s): John Pluecker
Author: Rosario SanmiguelOriginal work: Callejón Sucre y otros relatos
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 1558855149
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seven short stories explore the hard lives of women of different ages on both sides of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Conrado EspinozaOriginal work: El sol de Texas
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 257 pp.
ISBN: 9781558854802
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Considered the first novel of Mexican immigration depicting the diverse experiences of Mexican immigrants.With an introduction by John Pluecker.
Literary Genre: Fiction
Title: Undiscovered
Translator(s): Julia Sanches
Author: Gabriela WienerOriginal work: Huaco retrato
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9780063256682
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Elaine Brooks
Author: Fernando Contreras CastroOriginal work: Única mirando al mar
Publisher: Diálogos Books
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9781944884291
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Inside the great landfill at Río Azul, Única and her friends, her family, society's cast-offs, struggle to survive on what those in the city throw away…
Title: Uselessness
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Eduardo LaloOriginal work: La inutilidad
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 185 pp.
ISBN: 9780226207797
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The streets of Paris at night are pathways coursing with light and shadow, channels along which identity may be formed and lost, where the grand inflow of history, art, language, and thought--and of love--can both inspire and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Autobiographical fiction
Title: Usmaíl
Translator(s): Charlie Connelly
Author: Pedro Juan SotoOriginal work: Usmaíl
Publisher: Sombrero Pub.
City: St. John, US Virgin Islands
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 9780964122086
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In USMAÍL, Pedro Juan Soto gives us a masterful description of life on the small Puerto Rican Island of Vieques during the 1930s, 40s and 50s as seen through the eyes of the islanders themselves. The story follows the life of a… read more
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
City: Urbana
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 0252026551
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A world-famous neurobiologist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal won the Nobel Prize for his scientific research in 1906. The previous year, he published these stories: five ingenious tales that take a microscopic look at the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Santiago Ramón y Cajal ; translated from the Spanish by Laura Otis.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Science fiction, Romans
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
City: Urbana, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 272 pp.
ISBN: 9780252073557
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Stories about the bright and dark side of scientific curiosity from a world-famous scientist. Fearing they would compromise his scientific career, neurobiologist Ramón y Cajal waited almost twenty years to publish these stories… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Science fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Jasper Reid
Author: Martín CaparrósOriginal work: Valfierno
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 9780743297936
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by the infamous 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa finds the dying Marquis de Valfierno divulging to an American journalist the truth about his secret identity as a working-class Argentine youth who became one of the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Martín Caparrós ; translated by Jasper Reid.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 9780811223461
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gathered for the first time in English, and spanning his entire career], "Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas's finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Varamo
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César AiraOriginal work: Varamo
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 89 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217415
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Varamo concerns a day in the life of a hapless government employee. After being paid by the ministry in counterfeit money, our unfortunate bureaucrat, Varamo, wanders around all night, then sits down and writes the most… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Title: Variations on the Body
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: María Ospina PizanoOriginal work: Azares del cuerpo
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896108
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In six subtly connected stories, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from different strata of Colombian society. A former FARC guerilla fighter adjusts to urban life and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles
Title: Violeta
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel AllendeOriginal work: Violeta
Publisher: Ballantine Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780593496206
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel AllendeOriginal work: Violeta
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 446 pp.
ISBN: 9780593558713
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans
Title: Vlad
Translator(s): E. Shaskan Bumas, Alejandro Branger
Author: Carlos FuentesOriginal work: Vlad
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 122 pp.
ISBN: 9781564787798
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After centuries of war and blood shortages in Eastern Europe, an undead Vlad the Impaler moves to Mexico and offers eternal life to the only child of Yves and Asunción Navarro in exchange for their legal and real estate services.
Literary Genre: Horror tales, Occult fiction, Suspense fiction, Horror fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Paranormal fiction, Vampire fiction, Fiction, Novels
Title: Voltaire's Calligrapher
Translator(s): Lisa Carter
Author: Pablo de SantisPublisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9780061479885
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As calligrapher for the great Voltaire, Dalessius becomes witness to many wonders-- and finds himself in the middle of a secret battle between the malevolent remnants of the all-but-dead Dark Ages and the progressive elements of… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Pablo de Santis ; translated by Lisa Carter.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History
Title: Voyage Along the Horizon
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Javier MaríasOriginal work: Travesía del horizonte
Publisher: Believer Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 1932416404
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Marias's second novel was written in the early '70s when he was 21, and it has all of the stylistic grace and wry invention that has put Maras on the Nobel shortlist. An unnamed narrator ruminates on the intentions of a man (… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction, Sea stories
Title: Waiting for Robert Capa
Translator(s): Adriana V. Lopez
Author: Susana FortesOriginal work: Esperando a Robert Capa
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 201 pp.
ISBN: 9780062000385
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gerta Pohorylle meets Andre Friedmann in Paris in 1935 and is drawn to his fierce dedication to justice, journalism, and the art of photography. Assuming new names, [they] travel together to Spain, Europe's most harrowing war… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Biographical fiction
Title: Ways of Going Home
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro ZambraOriginal work: Formas de volver a casa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 139 pp.
ISBN: 9780374286644
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The writer son of a quiet sympathizer with the Pinochet regime reflects on the progress of his novel, in which an unnamed boy from a Chilean suburb witnesses an earthquake and meets an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alejandro Zambra ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell ; [illustrations on title and part title pages by Charlotte Strick].
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Historical fiction, Domestic fiction, Chilean fiction, Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans, Historical
Title: Weight of the Heart
Translator(s): Lilit Žekulin Thwaites
Author: Rosa MonteroOriginal work: El peso del corazón
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 335 pp.
ISBN: 9781503936461
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Part human and part robot, private investigator Bruna Husky has been hired to locate a stolen diamond. But as Bruna's leads start to drop dead, her case becomes about much more than a stolen gem--and much more dangerous.… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Science fiction© 2025 - Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos