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: Retrospective
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Volver la vista atrás
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 436 pp.
ISBN: 9780593539613
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has… read more
Literary Genre: Biographical fiction, Novels, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: Return to the Dark Valley
Translator(s): Howard Curtis
Author: Santiago Gamboa
Original work: Volver al oscuro valle
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, N.Y.
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 461 pp.
ISBN: 9781609454258
Summary/Reviews: (Cover) Manuela Beltrán, a poet haunted by a troubled childhood, is bent on revenge for the wrongs she suffered at the hands of her mother's lover. Her vendetta will draw together a cast of enigmatic characters, the inhabitants of Gamboa's… read more
Literary Genre: Colombian fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction

Title: Return to the Same City
Translator(s): Laura Dail
Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Original work: Regreso a la misma ciudad y bajo la lluvia
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 153 pp.
ISBN: 9781590581360
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hector Belascoaran Shayne has danced with the dead. Luke Estrella does the rumba in white patent leather shoes. Together, they make the perfect pair to lead each other into an inferno under an azure Acapulco sky: a hell populated… read more

Title: Returning As Shadows
Translator(s): Ezra E. Fitz
Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Original work: Retornamos como sombras
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 455 pp.
ISBN: 0312301561
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Revisits the domino-playing characters twenty years later as they seek to combat German forces in their country at the beginning of the Second World War.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Mexican fiction, Fiction

Title: Revolution Sunday
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Wendy Guerra
Original work: Domingo de Revolución
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 9781612196619
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The writer daughter of a Cuban dissident falls in love with an actor making a documentary about her father, but soon discovers that neither the actor nor her father are who she thought they were.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Political fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Rex
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: José Manuel Prieto González
Original work: Rex
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 321 pp.
ISBN: 9780802118790
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Proust-worshipping narrator falls into the dangerous world of the Russian mob in this novel run amok by the author of Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire.
Additional Information: Responsibility: José́ Manuel Prieto ; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen.
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Humorous fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Dust jackets (binding), Romans

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