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: Hunting the Last Wild Man
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Angela Vallvey
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 190 pp.
ISBN: 9781583224885
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Candela lives in a house of women nine to be exact: six sisters, their mother, their grandmother, and their rich aunt Mary, who owns the house. Candela has had her disappointments in love and floats from one job to another before… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Hurricane Season
Translator(s): Sophie Elizabeth Hughes
Author: Fernanda Melchor
Original work: Temporada de huracanes
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 9780811228039
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Dystopias

Title: Hypothermia
Translator(s): Brendan Riley
Author: Alvaro Enrigue
Original work: Hipotermia
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 9781564788733
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills… read more

Title: I Am Not a Monster
Translator(s): Dick Cluster
Author: Carme Chaparro
Original work: No soy un monstruo
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 297 pp.
ISBN: 9781503905375
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) No one has forgotten the unsolved kidnapping of four-year-old Nicolás Acosta. It galvanized Madrid, shaking it to its core. Two years later, another young child - similar in age and appearance to Nicolás - disappears from the… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: I Gave You All I Had
Translator(s): Nadia Benabid
Author: Zoé Valdés
Original work: Te di la vida entera
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781611459326
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cuca Martinez is the youngest child in a brood of five, born in prerevolutionary Cuba to a flighty would-be actress and a Chinese enthusiast of New World riches upon whom fortune has consistently failed to smile. At sixteen, she… read more

Title: I Took Panama
Translator(s): Nikki Settelmeyer
Author: Rodolfo M. Leitón
Original work: Yo tomé Panamá
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 138 pp.
ISBN: 9781469915265
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) I Took Panama is a short novel based on the life and achievements of the French Colonel Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla, the man considered by Eric Sevareid to be the "inventor of Panama," and about whom President Theodore Roosevelt… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: I Wait in Silence
Author: Tomás Fernández-Travieso
Original work: Epero en silencio
Publisher: Alexandria Library Publishing House
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 194 pp.
ISBN: 9781544829524
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The hope of an illusion transpires through the last twenty years of Boris’s life. Having escaped Cuba for executing his colonel, the young counterintelligence lieutenant takes refuge in the United States to live a life without… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: I Was Never the First Lady
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Wendy Guerra
Original work: Nunca fui primera dama
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 262 pp.
ISBN: 9780062990747
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: I Wish You Could Hear The Song I'm Listening To As I Write This
Translator(s): Jeannine Marie Pitas
Author: Manuela Espinal Solano
Original work: Quisiera que oyeran la canción que escucho cuando escribo esto
Publisher: Mosaic Press
City: Ontario
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 69 pp.
ISBN: 9781771615242
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) I Wish You Could Hear the Song I'm Listening to As I Write This... explores the classic tale of adolescent rebellion but it is more complex. How do young people deal with the apparent universal desire for attention and… read more

Title: I'll Sell You a Dog
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
Original work: Te vendo un perro
Publisher: And Other Stories
City: Los Angeles
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9781908276742
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long before he was the taco seller whose 'Gringo Dog' recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist, that is, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera, and his dreams… read more
Literary Genre: Humorous fiction, Fiction, Satirical literature

Title: I'm a Box
Translator(s): Johanna Warren
Author: Natalia Carrero
Original work: Soy una caja
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 9781611090130
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Nadila is a writer who believes blindly in the redemptive power of literature. In her search for her own voice, she sets to work studying the complete oeuvre of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. As if trying different styles… read more

Title: I've Forgotten Your Name
Translator(s): Mary G. Berg
Author: Martha Rivera
Original work: He olvidado tu nombre
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 1893996735
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) When this novel was first published, Dominican readers were stunned by its dark, poetic power. At last, someone had given voice to the profound sense of loss of national and personal identity felt by young Dominicans in the… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction

Title: I, the Supreme
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
Original work: Yo, el Supremo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 433 pp.
ISBN: 1564782476
Summary/Reviews: (Provided by publisher) Latin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dream of absolute power, who sought to impose their mad visions of Perfect Order on their own people. Latin American… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Nouvelles, Political fiction

Title: I, the Supreme
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
Original work: Yo, el Supremo
Publisher: Vintage Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 433 pp.
ISBN: 9780525564690
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Nouvelles, Political fiction

Title: Ice For Martians
Translator(s): Lily Meyer
Author: Claudia Ulloa Donoso
Original work: Ice for martians = Hielo para marcianos
Publisher: Sundial House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
ISBN: 9780578367569
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Claudia Ulloa Donoso is an expert at writing gently alienated characters. Sometimes, their dislocation is the result of geography. Occasionally, it stems from their social consider "Alarm," in which every sound and moment is… read more

Title: Ice For Martians = Hielo Para Marcianos
Translator(s): Lily Meyer
Author: Claudia Ulloa Donoso
Original work: Ice for martians = Hielo para marcianos
Publisher: Sundial House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 158 pp.
ISBN: 9798987926406
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Claudia Ulloa Donoso is an expert at writing gently alienated characters. Sometimes, their dislocation is the result of geography. Occasionally, it stems from their social conditions: consider "Alarm," in which every sound and… read more

Title: Imminence
Translator(s): Alice Whitmore
Author: Mariana Dimópulos
Original work: Pendiente
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492556
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her with an absence of feeling. Disoriented, she wanders with her partner around their plant-filled Buenos Aires apartment. Set over the course of an… read more

Title: In a State of Memory
Translator(s): Peter Kahn
Author: Tununa Mercado
Original work: En estado de memoria
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9780803231573
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a State of Memory is a novelistic memoir about exile, displacement, and return. Tununa Mercado explores the psychological and physical effects of the narrator's transition into a life in exile: the splintering of her identity… read more

Title: In Her Absence
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Original work: En ausencia de Blanca
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 9781590512531
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into the… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction, Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: In Praise of the Stepmother
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: Elogio de la madrastra
Publisher: Picador USA
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 0312421303
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, little by little, darkens the extraordinary happiness and harmony of his characters.… read more