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: City of Kings
Translator(s): Robert S. Rudder, Gloria Chacón de Arjona
Author: Rosario Castellanos
Original work: Ciudad Real
Publisher: Svenson Publishers
City: Claremont, CA
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 159 pp.
ISBN: 9781981006069
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Ciudad Real, as the Mexican city of San Cristobal de las Casas was called in earlier times, is the setting for this 1960 collection of stories by Rosario Castellanos that treats the passionate and timely themes of race, class… read more

Title: City of the Beasts
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: La ciudad de las bestias
Publisher: HarperTrophy
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 406 pp.
ISBN: 9780060535032
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Juvenile works, Paranormal fiction, Adventure, Romans

Title: City of the Beasts (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: La ciudad de las bestias
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 406 pp.
ISBN: 006050918
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Juvenile works, Paranormal fiction, Adventure, Romans

Title: Cleopatra Dismounts
Translator(s): Geoff Hargreaves
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Original work: De un salto descabalga la reina
Publisher: Grove
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 240 pp.
ISBN: 9780802139795
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cleopatra Dismounts is an imagined life of the Egyptian queen, called Queen of Kings by her subjects and widely said to be the incarnation of the goddess Isis. In the opening section, with Marc Antony dying in her arms, Cleopatra… read more
Literary Genre: History, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: Cleopatra Dismounts
Translator(s): Geoff Hargreaves
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Original work: De un salto descabalga la reina
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 0802117538
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Cleopatra Dismounts is an imagined life of the Egyptian queen, called Queen of Kings by her subjects and widely said to be the incarnation of the goddess Isis. In the opening section, with Marc Antony dying in her arms,… read more
Literary Genre: History, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: Closed for Repairs
Translator(s): Anne Fountain
Author: Nancy Alonso
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 89 pp.
ISBN: 9781931896320
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Closed for Repairs is a series of eleven vignettes that depict Cuban ingenuity in the face of urban problems. Each solution is framed with humor and irony and gives a glimpse of life on the island today. In a clever fashion,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Cockfight
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: María Fernanda Ampuero
Original work: Pelea de gallos
Publisher: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 117 pp.
ISBN: 9781936932825
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cockfight is the debut short story collection by Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero. Over thirteen stories, Cockfight explores the brutality and everyday violence contained in the structures of home, family, gender, and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Social problem fiction

Title: Collected Novellas
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa, J. S. Bernstein
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: HarperPerennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 281 pp.
ISBN: 9780060932664
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Colonel Lágrimas
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Carlos Fonseca
Original work: Coronel Lágrimas
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9781632061034
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Holed away in a cabin in the Pyrenees, the world-famous and enigmatic mathematician Alexander Grothendieck is working furiously on a final project. But what exactly is this monumental, mysterious undertaking? Why did this man,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Colorful Mondays : A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in Honduras
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Nelson Rodríguez, Leonardo Agustín Montes
Original work: Los lunes de colores
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9780802856166
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When a bookmobile visits Luis' neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, he and the other children of Villa Nueva discover a joy they cannot help but bring back home.Illustrated by Rosana Faría & Carla Tabora
Literary Genre: Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works, Livres d'images

Title: Comemadre
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Roque Larraquy
Original work: La comemadre
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 129 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895156
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) 1907: In a sanatorium in Temperley, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Doctor Quintana falls in love with Menéndez, the head nurse--of whom he knows almost nothing, not even her first name. Motivated by this love--which he shares… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Dystopian fiction, Fiction

Title: Commander Mendoza
Translator(s): Mary Jane Christie Serrano
Author: Juan Valera
Original work: El comendador Mendoza
Publisher: Kessinger Publishers
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 9781120242396
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Commander Mendoza is a novel written by Juan Valera and published in 1893. The book is set in the early 19th century and tells the story of a Spanish naval commander named Don Alonso Mendoza. Mendoza is a proud and honorable… read more

Title: Condomnauts
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: Yoss
Original work: Condonautas
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 9781632061867
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the 24th century, extragalactic beings arrive in the Milky Way with extraordinary new technologies. Josué, a sexual ambassador, must call upon every ounce of his talent to seal the deal for his colony and all of humanity.

Title: Conversation in the Cathedral
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: Conversación en la catedral
Publisher: Rayo
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 601 pp.
ISBN: 9780060732806
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the… read more

Title: Conversations
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: César Aira
Original work: Las conversaciones
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 88 pp.
ISBN: 9780811221108
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera's goatherd. This… read more
Literary Genre: Humorous stories, Humorous fiction, Fiction

Title: Cosme
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: José Félix Fuenmayor
Original work: Cosme
Publisher: Polyglot Press
City: Philadelphia, PA
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9781411599956

Title: Costa Rica : A Traveler's Literary Companion
Translator(s): Barbara Ras
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513009
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica's writers conjure the country… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Count Julian
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Original work: Reivindicación del conde don Julián
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9781564784841
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo's trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Goytisolo ; translated by Helen Lane.
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Historical fiction, Translations

Title: Counterfeit
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Guillermo Valcárcel
Original work: El conseguidor : un encargo sencillo, un misterioso reloj y una lucha desesperada por seguir con vida
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 212 pp.
ISBN: 9781542042215
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Antique salvager, counterfeiter, and former art forger Jota knows his newest commission pays suspiciously well, but it’s too easy to turn down. All he has to do is find an old clock that apparently has disappeared after being… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction

Title: Cousins
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Aurora Venturini
Original work: Las primas
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9781593767297
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cousins, widely regarded as Venturini's masterpiece, is the story of four women from an impoverished, dysfunctional family in La Plata, Argentina, who are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals, including illegal abortions… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans