On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Inés del alma mía
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: London
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 321 pp.
ISBN: 9780007257393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Born into a poor Spanish family in the sixteenth century, Inés leaves Spain for the New World to find her missing husband. There she discovers that he's been killed and soon begins a love affair with Pedro de Valdivia, a war hero… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Inés del alma mía
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 321 pp.
ISBN: 9780061161544
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A work of historical fiction chronicles the brave deeds and passionate loves of a spirited woman who journeyed to the New World and helped found a nation.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Inés del alma mía
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 321 pp.
ISBN: 9780061161537
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Born into a poor Spanish family in the sixteenth century, Inés leaves Spain for the New World to find her missing husband. There she discovers that he's been killed and soon begins a love affair with Pedro de Valdivia, a war hero… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Romans
Title: Inez
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Instinto de Inez
Publisher: Harcourt
City: Orlando, FL
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9780156013611
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Two narratives twine through this superb novel: one introduces Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great passion, Inez Prada, a red-haired Mexican diva; the other is a mysterious telling of the first… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romance fiction, Love stories
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
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Gioconda Belli
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
Translator(s): Robert S. Rudder
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: Desastres íntimos
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 108 pp.
ISBN: 9781891270543
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this modern age, when the means of communication have turned individual and collective history into a spectacle, literature is the privileged space of subjectivity. This book allows us to peer into the fascinating inner world… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Short stories, Romans
Title: Irene
Author: Jorge Eliécer Pardo
Original work: Irene
Publisher: Antípodas Monographs
City: Jannali
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9780977586868
Title: Irene
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.
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
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
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Isla bajo el mar
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 457 pp.
ISBN: 9780061988257
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) 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.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans
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
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
Translator(s): Beth Bryer
Author: Karina Sainz Borgo
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
Translator(s): Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
Author: Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
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.
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
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Orlando Tobón
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