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: Harsh Times
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: Tiempos recios
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 288 pp.
ISBN: 9780374601232
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it" -- Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Political fiction, Fiction / literary, Fiction / political, Fiction / historical / general, Fiction, History

Title: Havana is a Really Big City : and Other Short Stories
Translator(s): Sara E. Cooper
Author: Mirta Yáñez
Original work: La Habana es una ciudad bien grande
Publisher: Cubanabooks
City: Chico, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 98 pp.
ISBN: 9780982786000
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) These humorous and poignant stories that illustrate everyday life in contemporary Havana will challenge the reader's assumptions about the Cuban reality. Mirta Yanez is a Havana-born poet, novelist, critic, and extraordinary… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Havana Noir
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 314 pp.
ISBN: 9781933354385
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of stories by current and former residents of Havana that relate tales of ambiguous moralities, collective cruelty, and the damage incurred by self-preservation at all costs.Contents:     … read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: He walked in and sat down, and other stories
Translator(s): Rosaura Sánchez, Beatrice Pita
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2000
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 0826322131
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of seventeen short stories, presented in Spanish and English, that examine the lives of Chicano men and women in the contemporary United States.Contents:He walked in and sat down -- Entró y se sentó -- Road detours… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Heartbreak Tango
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Manuel Puig
Original work: Boquitas pintadas
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785534
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Awash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig's Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world, and the impossible promises of commercials, pop… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romance fiction, Love stories

Title: Heaven is Hard to Swallow = Paraísos Duros De Roer
Translator(s): Eduardo Jiménez Mayo
Author: Rafael Pérez Gay
Original work: Paraísos duros de roer
Publisher: Floricanto Press
City: Mountain View, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 135 pp.
ISBN: 9781888205299
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A forlorn psychoanalyst; a cultural historian exploring the possibility of life after death; a middle-aged couple that schedules a rendezvous with a younger version of itself; a man who compensates for his phobia of death and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles

Title: Here's to You, Jesusa!
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 303 pp.
ISBN: 0142001228
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Publisher's description: Jesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned some of the seminal events in early twentieth-century Mexican history. Having joined a cavalry unit during… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Elena Poniatowska ; translated from the Spanish by Deanna Heikkinen.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Here's To You, Jesusa!
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 303 pp.
ISBN: 9780374168193
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Based on Josefina Borquez, a working-class woman whose difficult life spanned some of the seminal events in early-twentieth-century Mexican history, Poniatowska's Jesusa is a tough, coarse-mouthed, cantankerous character who… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Heretics
Translator(s): Anna Kushner
Author: Leonardo Padura
Original work: Herejes
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 528 pp.
ISBN: 9780374168858
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: Hitler in Central America : A Non-Kosher Story from the Tropics
Author: Jacobo Schifter Sikora Pagos de polaco amores y traiciones en los años del nazismo
Original work: Pagos de polaco : amores y traiciones en los años del nazismo
Publisher: Authors Choice Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 418 pp.
ISBN: 9780595172610
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel about Hitler's persecution of Polish Jews all the way to Central America, and how they fought against his plans for their destruction. The novel also reveals these immigrant's internal struggles for their personal… read more

Title: Home Reading Service
Translator(s): Curtis Bauer
Author: Fabio Morábito
Original work: El lector a domicilio
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 223 pp.
ISBN: 9781635420722
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the English-language debut novel of one of Mexico's most poignant writers, a man guilty of a minor offense finds himself caught between the tedium of his temperate city and the growing menace of crime there. After an accident-… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Homeland
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Fernando Aramburu
Original work: Patria
Publisher: Pantheon Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 590 pp.
ISBN: 9781524747121
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Here is the story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology and violence of the terrorist group ETA (Basque Homeland and Liberty), from the unrelentingly grim 1980s to October 2011… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction

Title: Hopscotch, Blow-up and other stories, We love Glenda so much and other tales
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa, Paul Blackburn
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 909 pp.
ISBN: 9780375712661
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In time for his centenary: two groundbreaking works from a major figure of world literature, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. With these two books--the "counter-novel" Hopscotch and the short-… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: House of Mist
Translator(s): María Luisa Bombal
Author: María Luisa Bombal
Original work: La última niebla
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 9780374531362
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) House of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young bride struggling with her marriage to an aloof landowner--and the mysteries… read more

Title: How I Became a Nun
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: Cómo me hice monja
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 117 pp.
ISBN: 0811216314
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun, ' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations, Romans

Title: How to Order the Universe
Translator(s): Beth Bryer
Author: María José Ferrada
Original work: Kramp
Publisher: Tin House
City: Portland, OR
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 175 pp.
ISBN: 9781951142308
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A richly imaginative debut, detailing a girl and her father finding their way -and themselves - while they work as traveling hardware salesmen in Pinochet-era Chile, is a rare work of magic and originality. For seven-year-old M,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: María José Ferrada ; translated by Elizabeth Bryer.
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: How to Turn into a Bird
Translator(s): Beth Bryer
Author: María José Ferrada
Original work: El hombre del cartel
Publisher: Tin House
City: Portland, OR
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 216 pp.
ISBN: 9781953534460
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After years of hard work in a factory outside of Santiago, Chile, Ramón accepts a peculiar job: to look after a Coca-Cola billboard located by the highway. And it doesn't take long for Ramón to make an even more peculiar decision… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Novels, Romans

Title: Human Sacrifices
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: María Fernanda Ampuero
Original work: Sacrificios humanos
Publisher: The Feminist Press, at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 130 pp.
ISBN: 9781558612983
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Human Sacrifices is a short story collection by Ecuadorian author María Fernanda Ampuero that explores the horrors of inequality, exploitation, marginalization, and violence against working-class women and children under… read more
Literary Genre: Horror tales, Short stories, Fiction, Translations, Horror fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Hunting the Last Wild Man
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Angela Vallvey
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 190 pp.
ISBN: 9781583224885
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Candela lives in a house of women nine to be exact: six sisters, their mother, their grandmother, and their rich aunt Mary, who owns the house. Candela has had her disappointments in love and floats from one job to another before… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Hurricane Season
Translator(s): Sophie Elizabeth Hughes
Author: Fernanda Melchor
Original work: Temporada de huracanes
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 9780811228039
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Dystopias