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: Inez
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Instinto de Inez
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 150 pp.
ISBN: 0374175535
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In "Inez, " readers find Carlos Fuentes at the height of his magical and realist powers in a tale of two couples. This profound and beautiful work confirms his standing as Mexico's preeminent novelist.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romance fiction, Love stories

Title: Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand : a Novel of Adam and Eve
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Gioconda Belli
Original work: Infinito en la palma de la mano
Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 209 pp.
ISBN: 9780061673641
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a novel based on the Bible and ancient traditions, Adam and Eve discover the world around them, react to their punishment, and learn to adjust to the outside world, where it is necessary to kill to survive.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Gioconda Belli ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Parables, Fiction, Bible fiction, Paraboles

Title: Irene
Translator(s): Ollie O. Oviedo, Angela McEwan
Author: Jorge Eliécer Pardo
Original work: Irene
Publisher: Research University Press
City: Blacksburg, VA
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 153 pp.
ISBN: 0964023008
Additional Information: Responsibility: Jorge Eliécer Pardo ; translated by Ollie O. Oviedo, Angela McEwan.

Title: Irene (Bilingual Edition)
Translator(s): Ollie O. Oviedo, Angela McEwan
Author: Jorge Eliécer Pardo
Original work: Irene
Publisher: Research University Press
City: Blacksburg, VA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 299 pp.
ISBN: 9780964023048

Title: Irlanda
Translator(s): Toshiya Kamei
Author: Espido Freire
Original work: Irlanda
Publisher: Fairy Tale Review Press
City: Tuscaloosa, AL
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9780979995446
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) "Sagrario died in May, after much suffering." So begins Espido Freire's haunting novel IRLANDA, with a sentence that is bright and troubled at once, just like its hero. After the death of her sister Sagrario, young Natalia has… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Island Beneath the Sea
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Isla bajo el mar
Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 457 pp.
ISBN: 9780061988240
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Isle of Passion
Translator(s): Dolores M. Koch
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: La isla de la pasión
Publisher: Ecco
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 298 pp.
ISBN: 0060088982
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1908, under orders to defend a tiny, isolated Pacific atoll from an improbable French invasion, Mexican captain Ramon Arnaud, his young bride, Alicia, and eleven soldiers and their families set sail for the so-called Isle of… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: Isle of Passion
Translator(s): Dolores M. Koch
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: La isla de la pasión
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 294 pp.
ISBN: 9780060088989
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1908, under orders to defend a tiny, isolated Pacific atoll from an improbable French invasion, Mexican captain Ramon Arnaud, his young bride, Alicia, and eleven soldiers and their families set sail for the so-called Isle of… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: It Would Be Night in Caracas
Translator(s): Beth Bryer
Author: Karina Sainz Borgo
Original work: La hija de la española
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9780062936868
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcón stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her mother--the only family she has ever known--and worries that when night falls thieves will rob the grave. Even the dead cannot find peace… read more
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Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Political fiction, Romans

Title: It's My Birthday = ¡Es Mi Cumpleaños!
Translator(s): Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
Author: Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
Original work: It's my birthday = ¡Es mi cumpleaños!
Publisher: Me+Mi Publishing
City: Wheaton, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 20 pp.
ISBN: 9781931398176
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Children enjoy typical activities at a birthday party. Includes pronunciation guides for English and Spanish speakers.Illustrated by Rémy Simard.

Title: It's So Difficult
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Raúl Nieto Guridi
Original work: Lo difícil
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9780802855848
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As an overstimulated boy heads to school, he struggles to connect with the world around him.
Literary Genre: Picture books, Juvenile works, Fiction, Livres d'images

Title: Jackson Heights Chronicles : When Crossing the Border Isn't Enough
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Orlando Tobón
Original work: Las crónicas de Jackson Heights : cuando no basta cruzar la frontera
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 226 pp.
ISBN: 0743286588
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From his small travel agency tucked away in an area of New York City known as Little Colombia, the "Godfather of Jackson Heights" does far more than make travel arrangements. Fernando Padron is a social service fixer to many of… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Autobiographical fiction

Title: Jail
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Jesús Zárate Moreno
Original work: Cárcel
Publisher: Aliform
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 236 pp.
ISBN: 9780970765239
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In jail, a man loves his innocence with the same absurd force that he fears his crimes. What happens when the innocent is thrown in with the guilty, or the guilty with the innocent? Four unlikely cellmates suddenly find… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Jawbone
Translator(s): Sarah Booker
Author: Mónica Ojeda
Original work: Mandíbula
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 264 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896214
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?… read more
Literary Genre: Horror fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Romans

Title: Juan de la Rosa
Translator(s): Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Author: Nataniel Aguirre
Original work: Juan de la Rosa
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 302 pp.
ISBN: 9780554344720
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's… read more

Title: Juan Martín El Empecinado
Translator(s): Alva Cellini
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Original work: Juan Martín, el Empecinado
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 0773477799
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the first English translation of Galdos's Juan Martin El Empecinado (1874), in the first series of his Empisodios nacionales. This is the only novel in the first series dedicated to a guerilla fighter rather than to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Juan Martín, El Empecinado
Translator(s): Alva Cellini
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Original work: Juan Martín, el Empecinado
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 0773477799
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This is the first English translation of Galdos's Juan Martin El Empecinado (1874), in the first series of his Empisodios nacionales. This is the only novel in the first series dedicated to a guerilla fighter rather than to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Juan the Landless
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Original work: Juan sin tierra
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785275
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This reworked and streamlined version of Goytisolo's 1975 novel spins the reader through an angry, prickly catalogue of Spanish colonialism and slavery.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Juanita La Larga
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Juan Valera
Original work: Juanita la Larga
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
City: Washington, D.C.
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9780813214351
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Juanita la Larga (1896), the third of Juan Valera's eponymous novels with a female protagonist, unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Julia
Translator(s): Sandra Kingery
Author: Ana María Moix
Original work: Julia
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 0803232357
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Through the long hours of one sleepless night, twenty-year-old Julia sorts through the story of her life so far. Set against the backdrop of Franco's forty-year dictatorship, her personal history reveals its own small… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans