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: Heart of Scorpio
Translator(s): Mark David McCraw
Author: Joseph Avski
Original work: El corazón del escorpión
Publisher: Tiny Toes Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 123 pp.
ISBN: 9780985822804
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In bursts of fiction and nonfiction, Heart of Scorpio tells the tragic story of ex-champion boxer, Antonio Cervantes (Kid Pambelé), using four distinct voices that represent the personal, family, social, and public aspects of the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

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: Heavens on Earth
Translator(s): Shelby Vincent
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Original 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 Feinmann
Original 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 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: Hi, This is Conchita : And Other Stories
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original 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

Title: Hidden Path
Translator(s): Jeffrey Zamostny
Author: Elena Fortún
Original work: Oculto sendero
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 400 pp.
ISBN: 9780997228786
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the… read more

Title: His Name Was Death
Translator(s): Kit Schluter
Author: Rafael Bernal
Original work: Su nombre era muerte
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9780811230834
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut. His neighbors, a clan of the Lacodón tribe… read more

Title: His Only Son : With Doña Berta
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Leopoldo Alas
Original 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

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: Vintage Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 591 pp.
ISBN: 9780593310892
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: Homeland
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Fernando Aramburu
Original 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