On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Original work: Noche de los tiempos
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
City: Boston
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 641 pp.
ISBN: 9780547547848
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Antonio Muñoz Molina ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Romans
Translator(s): John Hassett
Author: Poli Délano
Original work: En este lugar sagrado
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 216 pp.
ISBN: 9781893996595
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gabriel Canales, raised in the countryside, has come to Santiago to attend university and seek his fortune. He soon falls into a pattern of partying. After he unintentionally kills a man following a session of drinking, he flees… read more
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: María Sonia Cristoff
Original work: Inclúyanme afuera
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 131 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492303
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mara is a simultaneous interpreter who moves to a provincial town in Argentina in order to speak as little as possible for a year. Steeled with the ten rules of silence set out in her manual of rhetoric, she takes a job as a… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Inés del alma mía
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: London
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 321 pp.
ISBN: 9780007257393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Born into a poor Spanish family in the sixteenth century, Inés leaves Spain for the New World to find her missing husband. There she discovers that he's been killed and soon begins a love affair with Pedro de Valdivia, a war hero… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Inés del alma mía
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 321 pp.
ISBN: 9780061161544
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A work of historical fiction chronicles the brave deeds and passionate loves of a spirited woman who journeyed to the New World and helped found a nation.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Inés del alma mía
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 321 pp.
ISBN: 9780061161537
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Born into a poor Spanish family in the sixteenth century, Inés leaves Spain for the New World to find her missing husband. There she discovers that he's been killed and soon begins a love affair with Pedro de Valdivia, a war hero… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Romans
Title: Inez
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Instinto de Inez
Publisher: Harcourt
City: Orlando, FL
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9780156013611
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Two narratives twine through this superb novel: one introduces Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great passion, Inez Prada, a red-haired Mexican diva; the other is a mysterious telling of the first… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romance fiction, Love stories
Title: Inez
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Instinto de Inez
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 150 pp.
ISBN: 0374175535
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In "Inez, " readers find Carlos Fuentes at the height of his magical and realist powers in a tale of two couples. This profound and beautiful work confirms his standing as Mexico's preeminent novelist.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romance fiction, Love stories
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Inés del alma mía
Publisher: HarperVia
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 421 pp.
ISBN: 9780063021754
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Though she was born into poverty, Inés Suárez, a seamstress in 16th-century Spain, embodies the same restless hope and opportunism that fuels her nation's conquest of the Americas. Learning that her shiftless husband has… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Gioconda Belli
Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 209 pp.
ISBN: 9780061673641
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a novel based on the Bible and ancient traditions, Adam and Eve discover the world around them, react to their punishment, and learn to adjust to the outside world, where it is necessary to kill to survive.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Gioconda Belli ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Parables, Fiction, Bible fiction, Paraboles
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: Desastres íntimos
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 108 pp.
ISBN: 9781891270543
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this modern age, when the means of communication have turned individual and collective history into a spectacle, literature is the privileged space of subjectivity. This book allows us to peer into the fascinating inner world… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Short stories, Romans
Title: Irene
Author: Jorge Eliécer Pardo
Original work: Irene
Publisher: Antípodas Monographs
City: Jannali
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9780977586868
Title: Irene
Author: Jorge Eliécer Pardo
Original work: Irene
Publisher: Research University Press
City: Blacksburg, VA
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 153 pp.
ISBN: 0964023008
Additional Information: Responsibility: Jorge Eliécer Pardo ; translated by Ollie O. Oviedo, Angela McEwan.
Author: Jorge Eliécer Pardo
Original work: Irene
Publisher: Research University Press
City: Blacksburg, VA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 299 pp.
ISBN: 9780964023048
Title: Irlanda
Translator(s): Toshiya Kamei
Author: Espido Freire
Original work: Irlanda
Publisher: Fairy Tale Review Press
City: Tuscaloosa, AL
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9780979995446
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) "Sagrario died in May, after much suffering." So begins Espido Freire's haunting novel IRLANDA, with a sentence that is bright and troubled at once, just like its hero. After the death of her sister Sagrario, young Natalia has… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Title: Ischia
Translator(s): Grady C. Wray
Author: Gisela Heffes
Original work: Ischia
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781646052141
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ischia is a portrait of an unnamed narrator and protagonist who, along with her friends, wanders through the margins of different cities, especially Buenos Aires, searching for something unknown and seemingly unfathomable. An… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Isla bajo el mar
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 581 pp.
ISBN: 9780063021778
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor, Zarité - known as Tété - was born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue. Growing up amid brutality and fear, Tété found solace in the traditional rhythms… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Isla bajo el mar
Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 457 pp.
ISBN: 9780061988240
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Isla bajo el mar
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 457 pp.
ISBN: 9780061988257
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Dolores M. Koch
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: La isla de la pasión
Publisher: Ecco
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 298 pp.
ISBN: 0060088982
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1908, under orders to defend a tiny, isolated Pacific atoll from an improbable French invasion, Mexican captain Ramon Arnaud, his young bride, Alicia, and eleven soldiers and their families set sail for the so-called Isle of… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans