TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
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Translations
Title: Heartbreak Tango
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Manuel PuigOriginal 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
Translator(s): Eduardo Jiménez Mayo
Author: Rafael Pérez GayOriginal 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: Heavens on Earth
Translator(s): Shelby Vincent
Author: Carmen BoullosaOriginal work: Cielos de la tierra
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 395 pp.
ISBN: 9781941920442
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Three narrators from different historical eras are each engaged in preserving history in Carmen Boullosa's Heavens on Earth. As her narrators sense and interact with each other over time and space, Boullosa challenges the primacy… read more
Literary Genre: Science fiction, Fiction
Title: Heidegger's Shadow
Translator(s): Joshua M. Price
Author: José Pablo FeinmannOriginal work: La sombra de Heidegger
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
City: Lubbock, TX
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 126 pp.
ISBN: 9780896729704
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Explores the philosopher Martin Heidegger's collusion with the Nazis through a two-part letter between the fictional Dieter Müller and his son.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Argentine fiction
Title: Here's to You, Jesusa!
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena PoniatowskaPublisher: 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 PoniatowskaPublisher: 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 PaduraOriginal 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
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Two Lines Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 174 pp.
ISBN: 9781931883221
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Told entirely in dialog, this is a comic novella about men pushed past their breaking point and the women who drive them crazy. A complex tale of an office worker hiring a hit man to kill his mistress, a man leaving feverish… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Leopoldo AlasOriginal work: Su único hijo
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 318 pp.
ISBN: 9781681370187
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain, Leopoldo Alas employed his satirical talent to powerful and humorous effect in fiction as well. In His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, a romantic flautist by… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Psychological fiction, Fiction
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 MorábitoOriginal 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 AramburuOriginal work: Patria
Publisher: Picador
City: London
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 608 pp.
ISBN: 9781509858026
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An epic and heartbreaking story of two best friends whose families are divided by the conflicting loyalties of terrorism.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction
Title: Homeland
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Fernando AramburuOriginal 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
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Julio CortázarOriginal work: Rayuela
Publisher: Pantheon Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 564 pp.
ISBN: 9780394752846
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an… read more
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa, Paul Blackburn
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal 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: Hot Sur
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Author: Laura RestrepoOriginal work: Hot sur
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 439 pp.
ISBN: 9781477827598
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) María Paz is a young Latin American woman who, like many others, has come to America chasing a dream. When she is accused of murdering her husband and sentenced to life behind bars, she must struggle to keep hope alive as she… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction
Title: House of Mist
Translator(s): María Luisa Bombal
Author: María Luisa BombalOriginal 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 AiraOriginal 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 FerradaOriginal 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 FerradaOriginal 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
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