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: Leaving Tabasco
Translator(s): Geoff Hargreaves
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 0802116841
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's most acclaimed writers, and Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming-of-age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in Agustini, in the Mexican province of Tabasco. Agustini is not an… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carmen Boullosa ; translated from the Spanish by Geoff Hargreaves.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans, Fiction, Fantasy fiction

Title: Lessons For A Child Who Arrives Late
Translator(s): Valerie Miles
Author: Carlos Yushimito
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 255 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492051
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A mascot for an electronics store dreams of making it in the drug world of Rio de Janeiro. A tin man ponders the mysteries of death as a heart starts to take charge of his limbs, while in a place not so far away a boy tries to… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Let Me Tell You a Story : Tales Along the Road to Happiness
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Jorge Bucay
Original work: Déjame que te cuente
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9781609451233
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A psychoanalyst tries to help a young man find happiness and fulfillment by telling him a story each day in an effort to provide a better understanding of his hopes, dreams, fears, and relationships.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Let No One Sleep
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Juan José Millás García
Original work: Que nadie duerma
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9781942658931
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After the IT firm where she works shuts down, Lucía has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment's air vent. She obtains her taxi license and meets the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels

Title: Lies
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Enrique de Hériz
Original work: Mentira
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 415 pp.
ISBN: 0385517947
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An intricately wrought, multilayered novel, "Lies" ranges from the present to deep in the past. Told through two narratives, the stories are both brutal and exciting. Together these stories illuminate the importance of… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: Life and Deeds of the Famous Gentleman Don Catrín De La Fachenda
Author: José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
Original work: Vida y hechos del famoso caballero Don Catrín de la Fachenda
Publisher: The Modern Language Association of America
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 9781603295376
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first English translation of the picaresque novel by the Mexican author of El Periquillo Sarniento (The Itching Parrot). The main character is a rake, catrín (a dandy or fop), and criollo. The novel interrogates race and… read more
Literary Genre: Picaresque literature, Picaresque fiction, Fiction

Title: Life is a Dream
Translator(s): Gregary Joseph Racz
Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Original work: La vida es sueño
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 123 pp.
ISBN: 9780143104827
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Lights on the Sea
Translator(s): Catherine E. Nelson
Author: Miquel Reina
Original work: Luces en el mar
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 9781503903203
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On the highest point of an island, in a house clinging to the edge of a cliff, live Mary Rose and Harold Grapes, a retired couple still mourning the death of their son thirty-five years before. Weighed down by decades of grief… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Magic realist fiction

Title: Like a Bride / Like a Mother
Translator(s): Dick Gerdes
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 573 pp.
ISBN: 9780826323644
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parents' dictates, and her husband's and family's expectations. The only constant in her… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Like a Fading Shadow
Translator(s): Camilo A. Ramirez
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Original work: Como la sombra que se va
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 312 pp.
ISBN: 9780374126902
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A hypnotic novel intertwining the author's past with James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after shooting Martin Luther King Jr"-- 1968. After shooting Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray has evaded authorities, driven to… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction

Title: Like Flies from Afar
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Enrique Ferrari
Original work: Que de lejos parecen moscas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9780374239947
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Luis Machi is an Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society. He has a cocaine habit, a collection of three hundred ties, ten million dollars in the bank, and a bloody corpse in… read more
Literary Genre: Black humor, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Argentine fiction -- translations into english, Humour noir

Title: Like Flies from Afar
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Enrique Ferrari
Original work: Que de lejos parecen moscas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 0374239940
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A loathsome and hilarious Argentinian oligarch, innocent of nothing except murder, finds an unidentifiable corpse handcuffed in the trunk of his car, and must find a way to keep out of jail.
Literary Genre: Black humor, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Argentine fiction -- translations into english, Humour noir

Title: Lilus Kikus and Other Stories
Translator(s): Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 127 pp.
ISBN: 9780826335821
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lilus Kikus, was erroneously first labeled a children's book because it had a young girl as protagonist, it included illustrations, and the author was an unknown woman. Accompanying Lilus Kikus in this first American edition are… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Literary Works By 10 Dominican Women
Translator(s): Kadiri J. Vaquer Fernandez
Author: Kianny N. Antigua
Original work: 10 dominicanas de letras : homenaje & antología
Publisher: DWA Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 137 pp.
ISBN: 9781737246732
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Literary Works by 10 Dominican Women is an ode and an incentive. This book brings together ten transcendental Dominican women writers who have lived or live outside of the Dominican Republic. They are: Camila Henríquez Ureña,… read more

Title: Little Bird
Translator(s): Lily Meyer
Author: Claudia Ulloa Donoso
Original work: Pajarito
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 9781646050659
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After leaving Peru to pursue graduate school north of the Arctic circle, Claudia Ulloa Donoso began blogging about insomnia. Not hers, necessarily - the blog was never defined as fact or fiction. Her blog posts became the bones… read more

Title: Little Eyes
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Samanta Schweblin
Original work: Kentukis
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9780525541363
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of… read more
Literary Genre: Dystopian fiction, Fiction, Horror fiction, Science fiction, Dystopias

Title: Little Eyes
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Samanta Schweblin
Original work: Kentukis
Publisher: Oneworld
City: London
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9781786078612
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) They're not pets. Not ghosts or robots. These are kentukis, and they are in your home. They're everywhere. They're watching you... They've infiltrated apartments in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town… read more
Literary Genre: Dystopian fiction, Fiction, Horror fiction, Science fiction, Dystopias

Title: Little Indiscretions
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Carmen de Posadas
Original work: Pequeñas infamias
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 305 pp.
ISBN: 0375508856
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When pastry chef Nestor Chaffino turns up dead at a party at the mansion of art dealer Ernesto Teldi, the party guests all become suspects in the crime when it turns out that Nestor was threatening to reveal some dark secrets.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Humorous fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: Little Indiscretions (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Carmen de Posadas
Original work: Pequeñas infamias
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 408 pp.
ISBN: 0786260920
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When a pastry chef is found dead in a walk-in freezer in the midst of a party he's catering, there is no shortage of suspects.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Humorous fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: Little Joy : Selected Stories
Translator(s): Jacob Steinberg
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
City: South Pasadena, CA
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 9781635901405
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most prolific and central figures of the young Argentine literary scene--the so-called "Generation of the 90s": artists and writers whose… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english