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 Way to Paradise
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El paraíso en la otra esquina
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 373 pp.
ISBN: 0374228035
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recounts the stories of civil rights campaigner Flora Tristan and Paul Gauguin, the artist grandson who was born after her death, in a tale that follows Flora's struggles with class imbalances and her grandson's effort to escape… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Weeping Woman
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: Zoé Valdés
Original work: La mujer que llora
Publisher: Arcade Publisher
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 302 pp.
ISBN: 9781628725810
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Winner of the prestigious Azoriń Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar. A writer resembling Zoé Valdés--a Cuban exile living in Paris with her… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Biographical fiction

Title: The Weight of Temptation
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Ana María Shua
Original work: El peso de la tentación
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2012
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 187 pp.
ISBN: 9780803239777
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Dystopian fantasy, political parable, morality tale-however one reads it, this novel is first and foremost pure Ana María Shua, a work of fiction like no other and a dark pleasure to read. Shua, an Argentinian writer widely… read more

Title: The Whispering City
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: Rosa Ribas Moliné, Sabine Hofmann
Original work: Don de lenguas
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 405 pp.
ISBN: 9781605988955
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Barcelona 1952. General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History, Thrillers (fiction), Mystery fiction

Title: The Wind from the East
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Almudena Grandes
Original work: Los aires difíciles
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 536 pp.
ISBN: 1583227466
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Is a blend of two narratives set alternately in Madrid and an Andalusian town by the sea. Sara Gomes Morales, given up at birth to be raised by her wealthy godmother, is betrayed on her sixteenth birthday when she is forced to… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Wind Knows My Name
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El viento conoce mi nombre
Publisher: Ballantine Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 9780593598108
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Wind Knows My Name (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El viento conoce mi nombre
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 348 pp.
ISBN: 9780593743720
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Wind That Lays Waste
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Selva Almada
Original work: El viento que arrasa
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 124 pp.
ISBN: 9781555978457
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads… read more
Literary Genre: Novellas, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Argentine fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Wind Traveler
Translator(s): Frank Wynne, Jessie Mendez Sayer
Author: Alonso Cueto
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 9781477317747
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Traveler of the Wind is set in the aftermath of the Shining Path years in Peru, bringing into perspective how violent histories can continue to haunt a person and a country, and the lengths to which individuals will go to seek… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Winterlings
Translator(s): Samuel Rutter
Author: Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Original work: Las inviernas
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 9781632061096
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Two sisters return to the small parish of Tierra de Chá in Galicia after a long absence, to the former home of their grandfather, from which they fled when they were just children. When news arrives that the famous American… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Woman from Uruguay
Translator(s): Jennifer Croft
Author: Pedro Mairal
Original work: La uruguaya
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 9781635577334
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. An advance due to him on his upcoming novel, the small fortune might mean the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction / diversity & multicultural, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Wonders
Translator(s): Lizzie Davis, Thomas Bunstead
Author: Elena Medel
Original work: Las maravillas
Publisher: Pushkin Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 222 pp.
ISBN: 9781782276586
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Maria and Alicia are a grandmother and granddaughter who have never met. Decades apart, both are drawn to Madrid in search of work and independence. Maria, scraping together a living as a cleaner and carer, sending money back… read more
Literary Genre: Feminist fiction, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Novels

Title: The Wonders
Translator(s): Lizzie Davis, Thomas Bunstead
Author: Elena Medel
Original work: Las maravillas
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
City: Chapel Hill, NC
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9781643752112
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) María moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, a caregiver, a cleaner--somehow always taking care of someone else. Two… read more
Literary Genre: Feminist fiction, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Novels

Title: The Word of the Speechless : Selected Stories of Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 9781681373232
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the great flourishing of Latin American literature that followed the Second World War. In a letter to an editor, Ribeyro… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Wrong Blood
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Manuel de Lope
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 288 pp.
ISBN: 9781590513095
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the days before the Civil War, two women in the Basque Country in northern Spain conspire to commit a victimless crime.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Manuel de Lope ; translated by John Cullen.
Literary Genre: War stories, Spanish fiction -- translations into english, War fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Year 200
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Hebe Powell
Author: Agustín de Rojas
Original work: El año 200
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 539 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060518
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Science fiction, Dystopias

Title: The Years with Laura Díaz
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Los años con Laura Díaz
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 516 pp.
ISBN: 0374293414
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The grandson of Laura Díaz provides the story of his grandmother, a lover of great men and "a politically committed artist on whom none of the poignant paradoxes of Mexican life have been lost.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Feminist fiction, Fiction

Title: The Years with Laura Díaz
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Los años con Laura Díaz
Publisher: Harvest
City: San Diego, CA
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 528 pp.
ISBN: 9780156007566
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters. The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Feminist fiction, Fiction

Title: The Yellow Rain
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Julio Llamazares
Original work: La lluvia amarilla
Publisher: Harcourt
City: Orlando, FL
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 130 pp.
ISBN: 0151005982
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the nearly deserted and ruined town of Ainielle, high in the Spanish Pyrenees, the village's sole remaining inhabitant, an elderly man on his deathbed, reminiscences about his life and summons the ghosts of his friends and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: The Young Teacher and the Great Serpent
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Irene Vasco
Original work: La joven maestra y la gran serpiente
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9780802856173
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young teacher eager to change her students' lives with her books. An indigenous community with its own stories to share. And a great and dangerous serpent not to be underestimated. Set along the Amazon River, this stunningly… read more
Literary Genre: Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works, Livres d'images