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: Wonderful World
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: Javier Calvo
Original work: Mundo maravilloso
Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 470 pp.
ISBN: 9780061557682
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) The story of a son trying to make his father proud-- by becoming an international criminal. Set in contemporary Barcelona and made up of multiple storylines, including a fictional manuscript by Stephen King.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Calvo ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Literary Genre: General fiction, Novels, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans

Title: World's Best Mother
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Nuria Labari
Original work: La mejor madre del mundo
Publisher: World Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9781642860726
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A thirty-five-year-old writer decides she wants to have children. Rounds of IVF treatments and several years later, she has two daughters and sits down to write this book. World's Best Mother is a sublime journey--through… read more

Title: Y No Se Lo Tragó La Tierra / ...and the Earth Did Not Devour Him (Bilingual Edition)
Translator(s): Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
Author: Tomás Rivera
Original work: Y no se lo tragó la tierra
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 9781558858152
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "I tell you, God could care less about the poor. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What have we done to deserve this? You're so good and yet you suffer so much," a young boy tells his mother in Tomás Rivera's classic… read more

Title: Yankee Invasion : A Novel of Mexico City
Translator(s): Tim Compton
Author: Ignacio Solares
Original work: La invasión
Publisher: Scarletta Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 239 pp.
ISBN: 097982494X
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Yankee Invasion centers on one of the most traumatic periods of Mexican history: the 1847 invasion of Mexico City by American armed forces and the ultimate loss of almost half its territory to the United States. Abelardo, who… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: Yawar Fiesta
Translator(s): Frances Horning Barraclough
Author: José María Arguedas
Original work: Yawar fiesta
Publisher: Waveland Press
City: Prospect Heights, IL
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 200 pp.
ISBN: 9781577662457
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Yawar Fiesta describes the social relations between Indians, mestizos, and whites in the Peruvian highland town of Puquio in the early twentieth century. Each group's reaction to the national government's attempt to suppress… read more

Title: Yearning for the Sea
Translator(s): Selma Marks
Author: Esther Seligson
Original work: Sed de mar
Publisher: Frayed Edge Press
City: Philadelphia, PA
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 56 pp.
ISBN: 9781642510331
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Yearning for the Sea picks up the story of Homer's Odyssey at the point of Ulysses' return to his wife Penelope, twenty years after the destruction of Troy. He has faced a long struggle to overcome the obstacles interposed by the… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction

Title: Yesterday
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Juan Emar
Original work: Ayer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 107 pp.
ISBN: 9780811231572
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the city of San Agustín de Tango, the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre. In a single day, a man is guillotined for preaching the intellectual pleasures of sex; an ostrich in a zoo, reversing roles, devours a lion; and a… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels

Title: Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada
Translator(s): Sabina Cienfuegos
Author: Zoé Valdés
Original work: La nada cotidiana
Publisher: Arcade
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 157 pp.
ISBN: 9781611450750
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Yocandra, the first-person narrator, was born (like Valdés herself) in Havana in 1959. Now a dispirited, outspoken woman living in Cuba, narrator writes of a reality of 'nothing' that contrasts poignantly with that of a gusana… read more

Title: Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada : A Novel of Cuba
Translator(s): Sabina Cienfuegos
Author: Zoé Valdés
Original work: La nada cotidiana
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 157 pp.
ISBN: 9781611459333
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Now back in print, the debut novel that made Zoé Valdés an international literary sensation, the bold, bawdy story of a failed revolution and its discontents.
Literary Genre: History, Fiction

Title: You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot
Translator(s): Margaret Randall
Author: Freddy Prestol Castillo
Original work: El masacre se pasa a pie
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham, NC
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9781478003205
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1937 tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic were slaughtered by Dominican troops wielding machetes and knives. Dominican writer and lawyer Freddy Prestol Castillo worked on the Haiti--Dominican Republic… read more
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Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History

Title: You Cried Too
Translator(s): Kathleen Ross
Author: Matilde Herrera
Original work: Vos también lloraste
Publisher: Azul Editions
City: New London, CT
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 69 pp.
ISBN: 9781885214409
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contents:                 Dogs — The knife — Eduardito doesn't like the police — Marcos — The sign — We have to be strong — Mama is sick.

Title: Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Two : Dance and Dream
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Tu rostro mañana
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 341 pp.
ISBN: 9780811216562
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans

Title: Your Face Tomorrow. Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Veneno y sombra y adiós
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 546 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218122
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jacques Deza, hired by a shady branch of the MI6, returns to Madrid to both to spy on and to protect his own family.--From publisher's description.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans

Title: Your Face Tomorrow: Dance and Dream
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Tu rostro mañana
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 387 pp.
ISBN: 9780811216562
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans

Title: Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Tu rostro mañana
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 387 pp.
ISBN: 0811216128
ISBN (ebook): 0811216128
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, volume one of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans

Title: Zama
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Antonio Di Benedetto
Original work: Zama
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 201 pp.
ISBN: 9781590177174
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentinean and Spanish-language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, Zama takes place in the last… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction -- 20th century, Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Zapatista Stories For Dreaming An-Other World
Translator(s): Lightning Collective
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Kairos ; PM Press
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 114 pp.
ISBN: 9781629639703
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this gorgeous collection of allegorical stories, Subcomandante Marcos, idiosyncratic spokesperson of the Zapatistas, has provided "an accidental archive" of a revolutionary group's struggle against neo-liberalism. For 30 years… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Zárate
Translator(s): Ignacio L. Götz
Author: Eduardo Blanco
Original work: Zárate
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 318 pp.
ISBN: 9781433189449
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Santos Zárate, the protagonist of the novel Zárate, was a Venezuelan highwayman whose stronghold was in the forest of Güere, and who terrorized the Valleys of Aragua for some twelve years. He was a historical figure. The action… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels

Title: Zig Zag
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: José Carlos Somoza
Original work: Zigzag
Publisher: Rayo
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 504 pp.
ISBN: 0061193712
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hiding dangerous discoveries that she made a decade earlier while working with a covert string theory research team, physics professor Elisa Robledo is horrified when she learns that her former team members have been brutally… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Science fiction, Time-travel fiction

Title: Zig Zag
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: José Carlos Somoza
Original work: Zigzag
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 504 pp.
ISBN: 9780061193712
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hiding dangerous discoveries that she made a decade earlier while working with a covert string theory research team, physics professor Elisa Robledo is horrified when she learns that her former team members have been brutally… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Science fiction, Time-travel fiction