TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
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Translations
Title: General Escobar's War
Author: José Luis OlaizolaOriginal work: La guerra del general Escobar
Publisher: Ignatius Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 235 pp.
ISBN: 9781621640523
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Appearing here in English translation for the first time, General Escobar's War won Spain's prestigious Planeta Prize for fiction. The historical novel takes the form of an imagined diary by General Antonio Escobar, the highest-… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction
Translator(s): Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Sampsonia Way Magazine
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9781494221799
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contents: Prologue / by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo -- The sky over Havana / by Jorge Alberto Aguiar Díaz -- Graphomania / by Lien Carrazana Lau -- Hating summer / by… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Gesell Dome
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Guillermo SaccomannoOriginal work: Cámara Gesell
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 616 pp.
ISBN: 9781940953380
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Winner of the 2013 Dashiell Hammett Prize--Through a skillful weaving of characters and plotlines, coming together like a completed puzzle, Saccomanno has crafted a monumental novel where individual stories… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Noir fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Title: Ghosts
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César AiraOriginal work: Los fantasmas
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 139 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217422
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ghosts revolves around an immigrant worker's family squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their wives and children see the ghosts, who literally hang around the place… read more
Literary Genre: Ghost stories, Fiction, Histoires de fantômes
Title: Glaxo
Translator(s): Samuel Rutter
Author: Hernán RonsinoPublisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 91 pp.
ISBN: 9781612195674
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Glaxo is a chilling novel of betrayal, romance, and murder, from a major Latin American writer being published in English for the first time. In a derelict town in the Argentine pampa, a decades-old betrayal simmers among a group… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction
Title: God's Diary
Translator(s): Alvaro de Silva
Author: Joaquín Antonio PeñalosaOriginal work: Diario del padre eterno
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 76 pp.
ISBN: 9780802839688
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Award-winning poet Peñalosa shares with us the diary of God, a daily record of the Eternal Father's hopes, plans and workings in the world. Simple yet masterful, childlike yet profound, these poetic diary entries present the… read more
Title: God's Spy
Translator(s): James Graham
Author: Juan Gómez-JuradoOriginal work: Espía de Dios
Publisher: Dutton
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780525949947
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the aftermath of the pope's death, police inspector Paola Dicanti is called in to investigate the brutal murders of two cardinals, assisted by American priest and former Army intelligence officer Anthony Fowler.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Original work: Golpes bajos : (instantáneas)
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9780299216009
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In these short, bilingual stories set in Buenos Aires (with each piece appearing in Spanish and English on facing pages), Alicia Borinsky provides unique glimpses into the lives of the city's inhabitants: its businessmen and… read more
Title: Good Hair, Bad Hair
Translator(s): Lisa Calvin
Author: Carmen L. MontañezOriginal work: Pelo bueno, pelo malo
Publisher: Xlibris Corp.
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 129 pp.
ISBN: 9781469163604
Literary Genre: Fiction
Title: Good Offices
Translator(s): Anne McLean, Anna Milsom
Author: Evelio RoseroOriginal work: Almuerzos
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 119 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219303
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tancredo, a young hunchback, observes and participates in the rites at the Catholic church where he lives under the care of Father Almida. Also in residence are the sexton Celeste Machado, his goddaughter Sabina Cruz, and three… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Evelio Rosero ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Anna Milsom.
Literary Genre: Satirical literature, Satire, Fiction
Translator(s): Nasario García
Author: Nasario GarcíaOriginal work: Grandma's santo on its head stories of days gone by in Hispanic villages of New Mexico = El santo patas arriba de mi abuelita
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 9780826353283
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this collection of bilingual stories about the Río Puerco Valley, where Nasario García grew up, he shares the traditions, myths, and stories of his homeland.
Translator(s): Anna E. Hiller
Author: Varios/MultiplePublisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 261 pp.
ISBN: 9780486476247
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A bilingual anthology of short stories that reflect the cultural diversity of the Spanish-speaking world.
Translator(s): Rosa Alcalá
Author: Lila ZemborainOriginal work: Guardianes del secreto
Publisher: Noemi Press
City: Las Cruces, NM
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 81 pp.
ISBN: 9781934819050
Literary Genre: Poetry, Poésie
Translator(s): Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Author: Guillermo Cabrera InfanteOriginal work: Delito por bailar el chachachá
Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 109 pp.
ISBN: 1566491878 9781566491877
Summary/Reviews: () Like the rhythm of the chachacha, the three short stories in this collection are marked by repetition and contrast. They all begin with the same scene, but each is the genesis of a different love story corresponding to three distinct… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories
Title: Gunter's Winter
Publisher: P. Lang
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 0820445894
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A well-connected lawyer and his deranged wife die in a mysterious fire. Their fate, however, is much more than material for a whodunit. Murder, dictatorship, love, eroticism, torture, and the healing power of art:… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Manuel Marcos ; translated by Tracy Karl Lewis.
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Rudy TenesOriginal work: Hand to hand : mano a mano, gringo chicano
Publisher: Publishamerica Inc.
City: Baltimore, MD
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 289 pp.
ISBN: 9781448928651
Title: Happy Families : Stories
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carlos FuentesOriginal work: Todas las familias felices
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 331 pp.
ISBN: 9781588368140
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In these masterly vignettes, Fuentes explores Tolstoy's classic observation that "happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In "A Family Like Any Other," each member of the Pagan family lives… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, mexican, Short stories, Fiction, Nouvelles
Title: Harsh Times
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Mario Vargas LlosaOriginal 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
Translator(s): Sara E. Cooper
Author: Mirta YáñezOriginal 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/MultipleOriginal 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© 2025 - Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos