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: Ornamental
Translator(s): Lizzie Davis
Author: Juan Sebastián Cárdenas
Original work: Ornamento
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 124 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895804
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ornamental is Juan's third novel, but it will be his first translated into English. It follows a scientist who recruits a group of volunteers for the trial of a new recreational drug that only affects women. Among them is "number… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Our Lady of the Circus
Translator(s): Patricia J. Duncan
Author: David Toscana
Original work: Santa María del Circo
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780312271169
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Acclaimed Mexican writer David Toscana's second novel is a whimsical and dark tale of a group of circus performers who are seduced by the idea of living like ordinary people.

Title: Our Lady of the Night
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 356 pp.
ISBN: 9780061731303
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Born into poverty and then abandoned by her mother, Isabel "La Negra" Luberza blossoms into a supremely sensual young woman. Obsessed with attaining aristocratic status - armed with incredible physical presence,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mayra Santos-Febres ; translated from Spanish by Ernesto Mestre-Reed.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Our Lives are the Rivers
Translator(s): Jaime Manrique
Author: Jaime Manrique
Original work: Nuestras vidas son los ríos
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9780060820701
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Chronicles the enthralling life of Manuela Sáenz, who won her place in history as the great love of South American liberator Simón Bolivar. Abandoning her position as one of the richest women in Lima, Sáenz worked to overthrow… read more

Title: Our Lives are the Rivers
Translator(s): Jaime Manrique
Author: Jaime Manrique
Original work: Nuestras vidas son los ríos
Publisher: Rayo
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9780060820701
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Chronicles the enthralling life of Manuela Sáenz, who won her place in history as the great love of South American liberator Simón Bolivar. Abandoning her position as one of the richest women in Lima, Sáenz worked to overthrow… read more

Title: Out in the Open
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Jesús Carrasco
Original work: Intemperie
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 226 pp.
ISBN: 9781594634369
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A searing dystopian vision of a young boy's flight through an unnamed, savaged country, searching for sanctuary and redemption--from one of Europe's bestselling literary stars. A young boy has fled his home. He's pursued by… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Dystopian fiction, Bildungsromans, Fiction

Title: Outlaws
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Original work: Las leyes de la frontera
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 369 pp.
ISBN: 1620403250
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Decades after sixteen-year-old Ignacio Cañas becomes the partner-in-crime of two charistmatic rebels, Ignacio, now a successful defense lawyer, encounters his former comrades and falls under their spell again.
Literary Genre: Legal stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories

Title: Over the Waves and Other Stories = Sobre Las Olas Y Otros Cuentos
Translator(s): Emmanuel Harris
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9780974888156
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Appearing for the first time outside of Cuba, this bold collection of short stories provides an intimate and critical view of Afro-Cuba. Inés María Martiatu's stories--presented in a unique "split" English/Spanish edition--span… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Oy, caramba!: an anthology of Jewish stories from Latin America
Translator(s): Ilan Stavans
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 329 pp.
ISBN: 9780826354969
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) First published in 1994 as Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers, Ilan Stavans's classic anthology is expanded and updated in this new edition.Contents: Introduction /; by Ilan Stavans --;… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Papi
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Rita Indiana Hernández Sánchez
Original work: Papi
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
City: Chicago ; London
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 9780226244891
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Papi tells a story in the voice of an eight year old girl waiting in Santo Domingo for her father to return from New York to lavish her with gifts and the glory of his fame. Things don't go according to plan.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fiction

Title: Paradais
Translator(s): Sophie Elizabeth Hughes
Author: Fernanda Melchor
Original work: Páradais
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 112 pp.
ISBN: 9780811231329
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor-an attractive married woman and mother… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Fiction, Novels, Thrillers (fiction), Romans

Title: Paradise Travel
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Jorge Franco Ramos
Original work: Paraíso travel
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9780312425968
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tragicomic story of unrequited love and a view of New York through the wide eyes of an illegal immigrant. This book recounts the adventures of Marlon Cruz, a naïve young man from Medellín, Colombia, who agrees to accompany… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Paradise Travel
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Jorge Franco Ramos
Original work: Paraíso travel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 0374229775
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From one of Colombia's leading novelists, a tragicomic story of unrequited love and a view of New York through the wide eyes of an illegal immigrant Paradise Travel recounts the adventures of Marlon Cruz, a naïve young man from… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Paradiso
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: José Lezama Lima
Original work: Paradiso
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2000
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 466 pp.
ISBN: 156478228X
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Tells the story of Jose Cemi, who, in the wake of his father's premature death, comes of age in turn-of-the-century Cuba.
Literary Genre: Lesbian fiction, Romans, Nouvelles

Title: Passionate Nomads
Translator(s): Brett Alan Sanders
Author: María Rosa Lojo de Beuter
Original work: La pasión de los nómades
Publisher: Aliform Publishing
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 9780982278420
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Merlin the Magician and his ward the fairy Rosaura dos Carballos, daughter of Morgan Le Fey, depart their dusty castle in the Old World and set off on a journey through the modern Americas in search of the legendary Ranquel… read more
Literary Genre: Fantasy fiction, Fiction

Title: Pedro Páramo
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Juan Rulfo
Original work: Pedro Páramo
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 161 pp.
ISBN: 9780292771215
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of two artists--writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Josephine Sacabo. In one such village of the mind,… read more
Literary Genre: Mexican fiction, Romans

Title: People Like Us : Short Stories
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Javier Valdés
Original work: Cuentos para baño
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 213 pp.
ISBN: 0743286464
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Darkly comic and highly entertaining, Javier Valdés's stories insinuate themselves in the unsuspecting reader like a heady brew with a strange kick. From the exploits of an urban vigilante to the erotic pleasures exacted from an… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, latin american, Short stories

Title: Pierced by the Sun
Translator(s): Jordi Castells
Author: Laura Esquivel
Original work: A Lupita le gustaba planchar
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9781503954748
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lupita hard-knock life has gotten the better of her time and time again. A childhood robbed of innocence set off a chain of events that she still has not managed to control, no matter how hard she tries. Every time she thinks she… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Pig's Foot
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Carlos Acosta
Original work: Pata de puerco
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 333 pp.
ISBN: 9781620400814
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Oscar Kortico, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales--some taller than others--of slavery, revolution, family secrets, love, and identity that span three… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Translations, Fantasy fiction, Romans

Title: Pirates of the Levant
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Corsarios de Levante
Publisher: Plume/Penguin
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 368 pp.
ISBN: 9780452297302
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Taking work as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon, Captain Alatriste, accompanied by his faithful foster son, Íñigo, participates in a grueling battle on the high seas that brings Íñigo's readiness for independence into… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Historical fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, History, Adventure fiction