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: Pirates of the Levant
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Corsarios de Levante
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 368 pp.
ISBN: 9780399156649
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
Additional Information: Responsibility: Arturo Perez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Historical fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, History, Adventure fiction

Title: Platero and I
Translator(s): Antonio T. De Nicolás
Author: Juan Ramón Jiménez
Original work: Platero y yo
Publisher: ToExcel
City: Lincoln, NB
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 179 pp.
ISBN: 0595003451
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this translated Spanish classic, Juan Ramón Jiménez tells his burro Platero about their native Andalusian village of Moguer. Their dialogue creates an evanescent portrait of provincial Spain--its streets, homes, animals,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Juvenile works

Title: Please talk to me: Selected Stories
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel, Miranda France
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9780300213706
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The first short story collection in the Margellos series, from a master of the genre and an irrepressible critic during Argentina's brutal years of repression Acclaimed for the gemlike perfection of her short… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Point of balance
Translator(s): Martin Michael Roberts
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: El paciente
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
ISBN: 9781476766980
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In this superbly written, nail-biting thriller, a top neurosurgeon is forced to choose between ending the life of the most important person in America or guaranteeing his own daughter's horrifying death.
Literary Genre: Medical novels, Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction

Title: Point of Balance: a Thriller
Translator(s): Martin Michael Roberts
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: El paciente
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 356 pp.
ISBN: 9781476766980
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In this superbly written, nail-biting thriller, a top neurosurgeon is forced to choose between ending the life of the most important person in America or guaranteeing his own daughter's horrifying death.
Literary Genre: Medical novels, Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction

Title: Points of Departure : New Stories from Mexico
Translator(s): Mónica Lavín, Gustavo Valentin Segade
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 159 pp.
ISBN: 9780872863811
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seventeen short stories by contemporary Mexican authors born in the '50s and '60s, all well-established writers in the prime of their careers. Some have already achieved critical acclaim in the U.S., but many of these prize-… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Portrait in Sepia
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Perennial
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 0060936363
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lacking all memory of the first five years of her life because of a brutal trauma, Aurora del Valle is raised by her regal grandmother Paulina and eventually seeks to confront the mystery of her past, in a novel set in late-… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: Portrait in Sepia
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 343 pp.
ISBN: 9780066211619
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: Portrait in Sepia
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9780060898489
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Aurora del Valle, raised in the privileged class of Chile by her overwhelming grandmother, is tormented by nightmares and half-memories of events that occurred when she was a child in San Francisco's Chinatown. When she becomes… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: Portrait in Sepia
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9780061991530
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: Portrait in Sepia (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: HarperLargePrint
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 434 pp.
ISBN: 9780066214016
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Aurora del Valle, the daughter of a privileged family in 1890s Chile, sets out to unlock the family secrets that shaped her childhood.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: Pot Pourri : Whistlings of an Idler
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman, Josefina Ludmer
Author: Eugenio Cambacérès
Original work: Potpourri : silbidos de un vago
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 144 pp.
ISBN: 9780195144642
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Emile Zola to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Romans

Title: Prime Time Suspect
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Alicia Giménez Bartlett
Original work: Muertos de papel
Publisher: Europa editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 299 pp.
ISBN: 9781933372310
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Delicado and her perennial sidekick, Sgt. Fermin Garzon, are thrown into a high-profile case-the murder inquiry into a much reviled gossip columnist, Ernestos Valdes-after the investigators originally assigned to it are pulled… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: Procession of Shadows : the Novel of Tamoga
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Julián Ríos
Original work: Cortejo de sombras
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9781564786531
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Stories of love, war, and vengeance, focusing on the tiny, remote village of Tamoga-- a place where vendettas are passed down from generation to generation, and where violence has left its trace in every corner
Additional Information: Responsibility: Julián Ríos ; translated by Nick Caistor ; with a forword by the author.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Prodigies
Translator(s): Sue Burke
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Original work: Prodigios
Publisher: Small Beer Press
City: Easthampton, MA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9781618731005
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Prodigies explores the story of the poet Novalis's birthplace in the German town of Weissenfels after it is converted into a boarding house. Moving, subtle, and full of wit, irony, and dreams, this novel fills the house with… read more
Literary Genre: Electronic books, Fiction, History

Title: Pubis Angelical
Author: Manuel Puig
Original work: Pubis angelical
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 236 pp.
ISBN: 9780816636815
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three women -- an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband's fairy-tale castle; a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s… read more

Title: Puerto Rican Poetry : A Selection from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times
Translator(s): Robert Márquez
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
City: Amherst, MA
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 490 pp.
ISBN: 9781558495616
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This volume offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry available in English. It includes the work of the sixty-four poest, as well as many previously inaccessible selections from Puerto Rico'… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Puppet : A Chicano Novella
Translator(s): Barbara D. Riess, Trino Sandoval
Author: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas
Original work: Puppet
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN: 082632228X
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET)  "Puppet is a complex, challenging, and ultimately compelling narrative. Revolving around the Chicano movement of the 1970s and 1980s, it tells the story of the murder of Puppet and the subsequent police cover-up. Just as… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Purgatory
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Tomás Eloy Martínez
Original work: Purgatorio
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 273 pp.
ISBN: 9781608197118
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) Simón Cardoso had been dead thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, spotted him at lunchtime in the lounge bar in Trudy Tuesday. So begins Purgatory. Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, vanished during a trip to map an… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Tomás Eloy Martínez ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: Purity of Blood
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Limpieza de sangre
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 267 pp.
ISBN: 0452287987
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Captain Alatriste attempts to rescue the daughter of a friend from a convent, but finds himself involved in a political and religious conspiracy connected with the Inquisition.
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction