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: Ripper
Translator(s): Oliver Brock, Frank Wynne
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El juego de Ripper
Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 478 pp.
ISBN: 9780062291400
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Amateur sleuth mystery, Thrillers (fiction), Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Parodies, imitations, etc, Mystery fiction

Title: Ripper: a novel
Translator(s): Oliver Brock, Frank Wynne
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El juego de Ripper
Publisher: HarperLuxe
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 658 pp.
ISBN: 9780062298737
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Amateur sleuth mystery, Thrillers (fiction), Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Parodies, imitations, etc, Mystery fiction

Title: River of Sorrows
Translator(s): Mary G. Berg
Author: Libertad Demitrópulos
Original work: Río de las congojas
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 1877727881
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) River of Sorrows is set in the sixteenth century Argentina of the earliest Spanish settlements, when Juan de Garay came down the Parana River from Asuncion, Paraguay, to found the settlement of Santa Fe in 1573. After he left… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Libertad Demitrópulos ; translated by Mary G. Berg.
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Rosario Tijeras
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Jorge Franco Ramos
Original work: Rosario Tijeras
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 1583226095
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco Ramos' delicately balanced novel, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellin. Her very name-evoking the rosary and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Rosario Tijeras
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Jorge Franco Ramos
Original work: Rosario Tijeras
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 176 pp.
ISBN: 9781583226780
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of death with that of love." So begins Rosario Tijeras, Jorge Franco's eponymous novel of a violent, violated woman on the run in 1980s… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Ruth : The One Who Fled the Bible
Translator(s): Deborah Ann Dougherty
Author: Josefina Leyva
Original work: Rut, la que huyó de la Biblia
Publisher: University Press of the South
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 176 pp.
ISBN: 1931948585
Literary Genre: Fiction, Christian fiction

Title: Sanctuaries of the Heart = Santuarios Del Corazón : A Novella in English and Spanish
Translator(s): Barbara Riess, Trino Sandoval
Author: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas
Original work: Sanctuaries of the Heart = Santuarios del Corazón : A Novella in English and Spanish
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 187 pp.
ISBN: 9780816524655
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Petra Leyva has begun to write a novel about the Sanctuary Movement when she hears that her widowed, womanizing father has set fire to his house in a drunken rage. Overwhelmed by family memories, Petra begins a journey of… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Santa : a Novel of Mexico City
Translator(s): John Charles Chasteen
Author: Federico Gamboa
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
City: Chapel Hill
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1238 pp.
ISBN: 9780807899502
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Federico Gamboa ; translated and edited by John Charles Chasteen.

Title: Savage Theories
Translator(s): Roy Kesey
Author: Pola Oloixarac
Original work: Teorías salvajes
Publisher: Soho
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 9781616957353
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize--against… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Fiction

Title: Scars
Translator(s): Steve Dolph
Author: Juan José Saer
Original work: Cicatrices
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824221
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Juan José Saer's Scars explores a crime committed by Luis Fiore, a thirty-nine-year-old laborer who shot his wife twice in the face with a shotgun; or, rather, it explores the circumstances of four characters who have… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan José Saer ; translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph.
Literary Genre: Legal fiction (literature), Fiction, Romans judiciaires

Title: Season of Ash : A Novel in Three Acts
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Jorge Volpi Escalante
Original work: No será la tierra
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 413 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824108
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jorge Volpi's international bestseller Season of Ash puts a human face on the earth-shaking events of the late twentieth century: the Chernobyl disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of Soviet communism and the rise of… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Seeds of Silence
Translator(s): Gretta K. Siebentritt
Author: Mercedes Salisachs
Original work: El secreto de las flores
Publisher: Jorge Pinto Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 0979557666
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Can flowers speak? Can they remember? Doctor Patricio Gallardo begins to wonder when his son Gregorio abruptly cuts off their unusually close relationship. In the pages of this book, an intricate web of emotions gradually is… read more

Title: Seeing Red
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Lina Meruane
Original work: Sangre en el ojo
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, Texas
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 157 pp.
ISBN: 9781941920244
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Seeing Red describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke which leaves her blind. It charts her journey through hospitals and an increased dependency on… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fiction

Title: Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 1: Peace in War: A Novel
Translator(s): Allen Lacy, Martin Nozick
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Original work: Paz en la guerra
Publisher: Princeton University Press
City: Princeton, New Jersey
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9781400886623
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first English translation of Unamuno's first novel, published in 1897, when he was 33. Its setting is the Basque country of northern Spain during the Second Carlist War (1874--1876), a conflict he lived through as a child.… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Miguel de Unamuno ; translated by Allen Lacy and Martin Nozick with Anthony Kerrigan ; annotated by Allen Lacy and Martin Nozick ; with an introduction by Allen Lacy.
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 6 : Novela/Nivola
Translator(s): Anthony Kerrigan
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Princeton University Press
City: Princeton, New Jersey
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9781400886647
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The three remarkable pieces of fiction included in this volume are not so much novelets, novels, as nivolas, a form invented by Unamuno.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Senselessness
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: Insensatez
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 142 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217071
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) An alcoholic, atheist, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to edit the testimonies of the survivors of slaughtered Indian villages. The writer's job is to tidy… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Suspense fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Sepharad
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Original work: Sefarad
Publisher: Harcourt
City: Orlando, FL
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 385 pp.
ISBN: 9780151009015
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book -- at once fiction, history, and memoir -- that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story.… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Historical fiction, Fiction, Spanish fiction

Title: Sepharad
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Original work: Sefarad
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
City: Orlando, FL
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 385 pp.
ISBN: 9780156034746
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book-at once fiction, history, and memoir-that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story.… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Historical fiction, Fiction, Spanish fiction

Title: Sepharad
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Original work: Sefarad
Publisher: Harcourt
City: Orlando, FL
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 385 pp.
ISBN: 0151009015
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book -- at once fiction, history, and memoir -- that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story.… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Historical fiction, Fiction, Spanish fiction

Title: September 11 From The Inside
Translator(s): Rúbram Fernández
Author: Rúbram Fernández
Original work: 11 de septiembre : desde dentro
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 85 pp.
ISBN: 9780595276684
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) On September 11, 2001 the world watched from the outside as thousands of people died. This novel portrays what it might have been like for those on the inside. The fear, the anguish, the heartache, and the human side of this… read more