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: When We Cease to Understand the World
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Benjamín Labatut
Original work: Un verdor terrible
Publisher: Pushkin Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781782276142
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Translations

Title: When You Get to the Other Side
Translator(s): Cecilia Weddell
Author: Mariana Osorio Gumá
Original work: Cuando llegues al otro lado
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 300 pp.
ISBN: 9781947627611
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The journey of two young siblings crossing from Mexico to the U.S. on their own is interweaved with the story of the grandmother who raised them becoming a magical folk healer.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Magic realist fiction, Novels, Road fiction

Title: Where the Air is Clear
Translator(s): Sam Hileman
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: La región más transparente
Publisher: Hasell Street Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 375 pp.
ISBN: 9781014477910
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Story of contemporary, tumultuous Mexico City, its oppressed workers, its displaced aristocrats, its decadent international set, and its heritage of rebellion.
Literary Genre: Romans, Mexican fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Where the Air Is Clear
Translator(s): Sam Hileman
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: La región más transparente
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 373 pp.
ISBN: 1564783448
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Where the Air is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, opens with a metaphorical description of Mexico City and the challenges facing its inhabitants and quickly becomes an unsparing portrayal of the upper class. Departing from… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Mexican fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Where the Bird Sings Best
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Original work: Donde mejor canta un pájaro
Publisher: Restless Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 386 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060280
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this wildly imaginative, powerfully moving, "psychomagical" autobiography-cum-novel, Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of how his Ukrainian Jewish grandfather, his fiery wife, Teresa, and their four children moved to Chile… read more

Title: Where There's Love, There's Hate
Translator(s): Silvina Ocampo, Suzanne Jill Levine, Jessica Powell
Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares
Original work: Los que aman, odian
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781612191508
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In seaside Bosque de Mar, Argentina, guests at the Hotel Central are struck by double misfortun--the mysterious death of one of their party, and an investigation headed by the physician, writer and insufferable busybody, Dr.… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: While the Women Are Sleeping
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Mientras ellas duermen
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: || 8433917919
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of short stories, including "While the women are sleeping," in which a man lying on the beach spectulates on the lives of another pair of beach goers, and "The Resignation Letter of Señor de Santiesteban,"… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Short stories, spanish, Translations into english, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: While the Women Are Sleeping
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Mientras ellas duermen
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219143
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Slippery figures in anomalous situations – ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals– haunt these stories by Javier Marías: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, spanish, Translations into english, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Wicked Weeds
Translator(s): Jessica Powell
Author: Pedro Cabiya
Original work: Malas hierbas
Publisher: Mandel Vilar Press
City: Simsbury, CT
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 161 pp.
ISBN: 9781942134114
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Caribbean zombie--smart, gentlemanly, financially independent, and a top executive at an important pharmaceutical company--becomes obsessed with finding the formula that would reverse his condition and allow him to become "a… read more
Literary Genre: Speculative fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Zombie fiction, Novels

Title: Widows
Original work: Viudas
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 167 pp.
ISBN: 9781583224830
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) One by one, men's bodies are washing up on the shore of the river that passes through town, where they are claimed by the local women as their missing husbands and fathers, even though the faces of the dead men are… read more
Literary Genre: Chronologies, History

Title: Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
Translator(s): Emma Thompson
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: General Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 73 pp.
ISBN: 9781151305749
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: Witches
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Brenda Lozano
Original work: Brujas
Publisher: MacLehose Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 281 pp.
ISBN: 9781529412277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The beguiling story of a young journalist whose investigation of a murder leads her to the most legendary healer in all of Mexico, from one of the most prominent voices of a new generation of Latin American writers. Paloma is… read more
Literary Genre: Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Novels, Witch fiction

Title: Witches
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Brenda Lozano
Original work: Brujas
Publisher: Catapult
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9781646220687
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Journalist Zoé comes to the town of San Felipe to learn about the famous healer Feliciana, who has the ability to heal the soul as well as the body, and about the murder of Feliciana's teacher, Paloma. Paloma is dead. But before… read more
Literary Genre: Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Novels, Witch fiction

Title: Without a Net
Translator(s): Steven J. Stewart
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781934909287
Summary/Reviews: () Ana María Shua's microfictions reveal oneiric universes, multiform realties, secret worlds with the unlikely coherence of the absurd, the amorphous logic of the imagination. They are characterized by the most unique form of concise… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Woes of the True Policeman
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Las sinsabores del verdadero policía
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 250 pp.
ISBN: 9780374266745
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel.The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano―an exiled Chilean university professor and widower―… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Woes of the True Policeman
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Las sinsabores del verdadero policía
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 250 pp.
ISBN: 9781447233282
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Follows Amalfitano, exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter, as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Wolfskin
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Lara Moreno
Original work: Piel de lobo
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830713
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sofía is thirty-five and her husband has left her. Her father died the year before, and her mother is living in the Canary Islands with a new partner. Sofía flees the city with her young son, seeking refuge in her father's house… read more
Literary Genre: Novels

Title: Woman in Battle Dress
Translator(s): Jessica Powell
Author: Antonio Benítez Rojo
Original work: Mujer en traje de batalla
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 479 pp.
ISBN: 9780872866768
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1809, at the age of eighteen, Henriette Faber enrolled herself in medical school in Paris--and since medicine was a profession prohibited to women, she changed her name to Henri in order to matriculate. She would spend the… read more
Literary Genre: Medical fiction, Historical fiction, Biographical fiction

Title: Women with Big Eyes
Translator(s): Amy S. Greenberg
Author: Ángeles Mastretta
Publisher: Riverhead
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 384 pp.
ISBN: 9781594480409
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The number-one international bestseller, "Women With Big Eyes" is Mexican novelist Angeles Mastretta's most wedely read work, at last translated into English. Meet the outrageous Aunt Leonor, who deines herself the forbidden… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Romance fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Short stories, Romans

Title: Women with Big Eyes
Translator(s): Amy S. Greenberg
Author: Ángeles Mastretta
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 372 pp.
ISBN: 1573223468
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A number-one international bestseller, Women with Big Eyes is Mexican novelist Ángeles Mastretta's most widely read work, now available for the first time in an English translation. Each of the stories in this volume reveals a… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Romance fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Short stories, Romans