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): Valerie Miles
Author: Edmundo Paz Soldán
Original work: Norte
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 326 pp.
ISBN: 9780226207209
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexico/US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Juan Gómez Bárcena
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830676
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Toñanes is just one of the many inglorious soldiers eking a small existence on the land he helped conquer. When he receives one last mission, to hunt down a renegade Indian who calls… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Romans
Author: Marisela Rizik
Original work: El tiempo del olvido
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 215 pp.
ISBN: 1931896003
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Of Forgotten Times tells the story of women from two different families - one rich and the other mired in poverty - whose only point in common is their connection to the ruthless dictator of their Caribbean homeland. It is at… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Graciela Lucero-Hammer
Author: Reyna Carranza
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston [N.Y.]
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9780773421110
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first English translation of Reyna Carranza's historical novel of dynastic decline in twentieth-century Argentina.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Reyna Carranza ; translated from the Spanish, with an introduction by Graciela Lucero-Hammer ; with a foreword by Fernando Reati.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, History
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 9781400034925
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in the Spanish colonial era, a doomed love affair takes place between a young girl who is thought to be possessed and the priest who is sent to oversee her exorcism.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Love stories, Fictional work, Novels, Romance fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: De amor y de sombra
Publisher: Dial Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 290 pp.
ISBN: 0553383833
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A woman reporter in a Latin American country and a photographer are sent on a routine assignment. The two uncover a hideous crime, the revelation of which could challenge the terrorism of the military regime.
Literary Genre: Love stories, Romance fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Sandra Kingery
Author: Ana María Moix
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 1891270230
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ten stories complete this collection of emotionally charged characters connected through a complex interweaving of repeated themes. Their tales include the humorous dynamics of a tour group in Italy; the haunting reality of a man… read more
Author: Emilio Lascano Tegui
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 174 pp.
ISBN: 9781564786043
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first English translation of the self-proclaimed 'Viscount' Emilio Lascano Tegui--a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right --On Elegance While Sleeping is the macabre novel, part… read more
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Experimental fiction, Fiction, Journaux intimes fictifs
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Rafael Chirbes
Original work: En la orilla
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 410 pp.
ISBN: 9780811222846
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The novel "opens with the discovery of a rotting corpse in the marshes on the outskirts of Olba, Spain--a town wracked by despair after the burst of the economic bubble, and a microcosm of a world of defeat, debt, and… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Linda J. Craft
Author: Manlio Argueta
Original work: Siglo de o(g)ro
Publisher: University Press of America
City: Lanham, MD
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 239 pp.
ISBN: 9780761837862
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Once Upon a Time (Bomb) is a memoir of a young boy growing up in El Salvador. It tells the story of Alfonso Duque the Thirteenth, a youngster from a poverty-stricken family and a budding poet. Surrounded by hovering women -… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Ena Lucía Portela
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 202 pp.
ISBN: 9780292722491
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One Hundred Bottles, with its intersecting characters and unresolved whodunits, can be read as a murder mystery. But it's really a survivor's story. In a voice that blends gossip, storytelling, and literature, Zthe vivacious… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Perennial Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 458 pp.
ISBN: 9780060929794
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Probably García Márquez finest and most famous work. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive,… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Epic fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9780060883287
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Epic fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9780060531041
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family history of the Buendias.
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Epic fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Penguin
City: London
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 422 pp.
ISBN: 9780141184999
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Epic fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 458 pp.
ISBN: 0965018948
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement of a Nobel Prize winning career. The novel tells the story… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Epic fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: HarperLargePrint
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 541 pp.
ISBN: 9780060750763
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family history of the Buendias.
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Epic fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Daniel Sada
Original work: Una de dos
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 100 pp.
ISBN: 9781555977245
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Identical twin spinsters, Gloria and Constitución Gamal, enjoy their successful tailoring business in rural Mexico and take particular thrills in confusing people. When a new suitor arrives, one sister decides she wants all the… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Love stories
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Luis Manuel Ruiz
Original work: Sólo una cosa no hay
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 308 pp.
ISBN: 0802117309
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Grieving the loss of her husband and child, Alicia is haunted by surreal nighmares that start to appear in her waking world, a situation that causes her to question her sanity and the sincerity of her support network.
Literary Genre: Horror tales, Paranormal fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Mystery fiction
Title: Op Oloop
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Juan Filloy
Original work: Op oloop
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 251 pp.
ISBN: 9781564784346
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mr. Optimus Oloop is a Finnish statistician living in Buenos Aires. His life runs according to a methodical and rigid schedule, with everything - from his meals down to his visits to the city brothels - timed to the minute.… read more