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 Private Lives of Trees
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: La vida privada de los árboles
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 98 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824245
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Julian is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Veronica to return from her art class. Each night, Julian has been improvising a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alejandro Zambra ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Promise
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine, Jessica Powell
Author: Silvina Ocampo
Original work: La promesa
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 9780872867710
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity. A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship falls overboard; adrift, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter… read more
Literary Genre: Novellas, Fiction

Title: The Prosecutor
Translator(s): Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
Original work: El fiscal
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
City: Vancouver
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 255 pp.
ISBN: 9781683930341
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The book is a translation and critical edition of The Prosecutor written by Paraguay’s most famous writer, Augusto Roa Bastos. The novel traces the journey of Félix Moral, exiled by the Stroessner government, as he travels back… read more

Title: The Queen of the South
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: La Reina del Sur
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 436 pp.
ISBN: 0399151850
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to… read more
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Queen of the South
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: La Reina del Sur
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 384 pp.
ISBN: 9780965501828
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Derived from factual evidence, Perez-Reverte brings us a surprising novel with an interesting twist. Teresa Mendoza is nicknamed 'The Queen of the South' by journalists, and 'The Mexican' by the authorities of three continents… read more
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Queen of the South
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: La Reina del Sur
Publisher: Penguin/Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 449 pp.
ISBN: Penguin/Plume
ISBN (ebook): 9780452286542
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to… read more
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Queen of the South
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: La Reina del Sur
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 436 pp.
ISBN: 9780399151859
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A woman who's lover is a pilot for an illegal narcotics operation learns her boyfriend has been killed and she is next.
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Queen of the South (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: La Reina del Sur
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 784 pp.
ISBN: 9780786267583
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Teresa Mendoza's boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa, Mexico, call "the king of the short runway," because he can get a plane full of cocaine off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business,… read more
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Quest
Translator(s): Isaac Goldberg
Author: Pío Baroja
Original work: La busca
Publisher: Hardpress
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 9781407649085

Title: The Rainforest
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Alicia Steimberg
Original work: La selva
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 9780803243156
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a novel as fragmented and verdant as memory itself, Argentine author Steimberg (Call Me Magdalena) creates a troubled Argentine writer, a widow in her late 50s who seeks comfort and recovery at a convalescent spa in the lush… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Ravine
Translator(s): Carol Maier
Author: Nivaria Tejera
Original work: El barranco
Publisher: State University of New York Press
City: Albany
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1165 pp.
ISBN: 9781435658592
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Set in the Canary Islands at the outset of the Spanish Civil War, The Ravine is the provocative, disturbing account of a child's experience with war. Narrated by an unnamed seven-year-old girl, the story begins in the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Nivaria Tejera ; translation and with an afterword by Carol Maier.
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Red of His Shadow
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mayra Montero
Publisher: The Ecco Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 159 pp.
ISBN: 0066210593 9780066210599 0060952911 9780060952914
Summary/Reviews: () It is Holy Week, and the Haitian sugar cane harvesters can temporarily forget their misery and lose themselves in the fervor of Voudon. But amidst the colorful festival, a struggle for power, as well as a devastating passion, develops… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories

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 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 Remembered Part
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Rodrigo Fresán
Original work: La parte inventada
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 773 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830546
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The protagonist-narrator of The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part returns to find an answer the question: how does a writer remember? In particular, how does a he--a writer who no longer writes but can't stop reading and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Science fiction

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