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 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 Sanctuary
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya
Original work: El criadero
Publisher: Schaffner Press
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 186 pp.
ISBN: 9781639640225
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When their car breaks down outside of the small Argentinian village of Los Huemules, indie filmmaker Álvaro and his wife, muse, and lead actress Alicia consider it a minor inconvenience. Seeking shelter in the town's lone motel,… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Horror fiction, Fiction, Novels

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
Translator(s): Maureen Shaughnessy
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

Title: The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: F. G. Haghenbeck
Original work: El libro secreto de Frida Kahlo
Publisher: Atria Paperback
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 354 pp.
ISBN: 9781451632835
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a rich, luscious style bordering on magical realism, Haghenbeck takes readers on an intriguing ride through Frida's life, including her long and tumultuous relationship with her lover Diego Rivera, the development of her… read more

Title: The Secret Crypt
Translator(s): Joshua Pollock
Author: Salvador Elizondo
Original work: El hipogeo secreto
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: McLean, IL
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781628972917
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Originally published in 1968, The Secret Crypt is something of a cult classic in Mexican literature. Elizondo's impassioned, breathless prose launches the reader into a labyrinth that is also a hall of mirrors. Here, we find a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Salvador Elizondo ; translated by Joshua Pollock.

Title: The Secret Gardens of Mogador : Voices of the Earth
Translator(s): Rhonda Lee Dahl Buchanan
Author: Alberto Ruy Sánchez
Original work: Los jardines secretos de Mogador : voces de tierra
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9781893996991
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An erotic painter of dreams, who fuses the most unblemished sensuality with the most transparent spirituality.
Literary Genre: Literatura hispanoamericana- -- méxico

Title: The Secret History of Costaguana
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Historia secreta de Costaguana
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 283 pp.
ISBN: 9781594488030
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Miscellaneous fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Secret History of Costaguana
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Historia secreta de Costaguana
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 283 pp.
ISBN: 9781594488030
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Miscellaneous fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Secret History of Costaguana
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Historia secreta de Costaguana
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 305 pp.
ISBN: 9781594485824
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing… read more

Title: The Secret in Their Eyes
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Eduardo A. Sacheri
Original work: Pregunta de sus ojos
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 384 pp.
ISBN: 9781590514504
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Eduardo Sacheri ; translated by John Cullen.
Literary Genre: Noir fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: The Secret in Their Eyes
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Eduardo A. Sacheri
Original work: El secreto de sus ojos
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 384 pp.
ISBN: 9781590517901
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Retired detective Benjamín Chaparro is still obsessed by the decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. As he revisits the case, he also recalls the beginning of his long, unrequited love for Irene… read more

Title: The Secret Life of Insects
Translator(s): James D. Jenkins
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Valancourt Books
City: Richmond, VA
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 205 pp.
ISBN: 9781954321960
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In "The Secret Life of Insects", a forensic entomologist tries to solve the inexplicable murder of his wife, who impossibly seems to have been killed in a forest at the same time she was asleep in bed with him. The husband in "… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Secret of Evil
Translator(s): Chris Andrews, Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: El secreto del mal
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 144 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218153
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of short fiction gathers everything the author was working on before his death, including a story about a North American journalist receiving a mysterious call and a woman's recounting of the loss of her virginity.… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles