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: Isle of Passion
Translator(s): Dolores M. Koch
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: La isla de la pasión
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 294 pp.
ISBN: 9780060088989
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

Title: Isles of Firm Ground
Translator(s): Mike Soto
Author: Ignacio Ruiz Pérez
Original work: Islas de tierra firme
Publisher: Phoneme Media/Deep Vellum
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9781646051298
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In wondrous, singing translation by Mike Soto, these spare, striking poems by Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez explore the infinite solitude of the universe. The poems of Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez reflect a world precariously dependent on, but also… read more

Title: It Would Be Night in Caracas
Translator(s): Beth Bryer
Author: Karina Sainz Borgo
Original work: La hija de la española
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9780062936868
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcón stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her mother--the only family she has ever known--and worries that when night falls thieves will rob the grave. Even the dead cannot find peace… read more
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Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Political fiction, Romans

Title: It's My Birthday = ¡Es Mi Cumpleaños!
Translator(s): Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
Author: Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
Original work: It's my birthday = ¡Es mi cumpleaños!
Publisher: Me+Mi Publishing
City: Wheaton, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 20 pp.
ISBN: 9781931398176
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Children enjoy typical activities at a birthday party. Includes pronunciation guides for English and Spanish speakers.Illustrated by Rémy Simard.

Title: It's So Difficult
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Raúl Nieto Guridi
Original work: Lo difícil
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9780802855848
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As an overstimulated boy heads to school, he struggles to connect with the world around him.
Literary Genre: Picture books, Juvenile works, Fiction, Livres d'images

Title: Itzalku : The Pipil Saga
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Milton Manrique Juarez
Original work: Itzalku : la saga Pipil
Publisher: Milton Manrique Juarez
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9781530849710
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long gone are the monuments and the traditions of the people. Long gone are the sacrifices and ceremonial offerings to the old gods. Most Mesoamericans have either been killed or enslaved, and Spain owns the land. Now, there are… read more

Title: Jackson Heights Chronicles : When Crossing the Border Isn't Enough
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Orlando Tobón
Original work: Las crónicas de Jackson Heights : cuando no basta cruzar la frontera
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 226 pp.
ISBN: 0743286588
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From his small travel agency tucked away in an area of New York City known as Little Colombia, the "Godfather of Jackson Heights" does far more than make travel arrangements. Fernando Padron is a social service fixer to many of… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Autobiographical fiction

Title: Jacob the Mutant
Translator(s): Jacob Steinberg
Author: Mario Bellatin
Original work: Jacobo reloaded
Publisher: Phoneme Media
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9781939419101
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, Jacob the Mutant is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and owner of a roadside… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction

Title: Jaguars' Tomb
Translator(s): Amalia Gladhart
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Original work: Tumba de jaguares
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
City: Nashville, TN
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 9780826501417
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jaguars' Tomb is a novel in three parts. Part one, "Hidden Variables" by María Celina Igarzábal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author of the second part, "Telling from Zero" ("Contar desde zero") of which… read more

Title: Jail
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Jesús Zárate Moreno
Original work: Cárcel
Publisher: Aliform
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 236 pp.
ISBN: 9780970765239
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In jail, a man loves his innocence with the same absurd force that he fears his crimes. What happens when the innocent is thrown in with the guilty, or the guilty with the innocent? Four unlikely cellmates suddenly find… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Jakarta
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Rodrigo Márquez Tizano
Original work: Yakarta
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895637
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In achaotic city, the latest in a line of viruses advances as a man recounts the fated steps that led him to be confined in a room with his lover while catastrophe looms. As he takes inventory of the city's ills, a strange stone… read more

Title: January
Translator(s): Frances Riddle, Maureen Shaughnessy
Author: Sara Gallardo
Original work: Enero
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 114 pp.
ISBN: 9781953861641
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the sweltering Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe peaches snap and fall as she gallops past. Sickly-sweet air bends, churns in Nefer's throat. Nefer measures the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Social problem fiction, Novels

Title: Jawbone
Translator(s): Sarah Booker
Author: Mónica Ojeda
Original work: Mandíbula
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 264 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896214
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?… read more
Literary Genre: Horror fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Romans

Title: Job-Boj
Translator(s): Monica Ruiz Anderson
Author: Jorge Guzmán
Original work: Job-Boj
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 290 pp.
ISBN: 9781628971651
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Written in alternating voices, Jorge Guzman's JOB BOJ is a captivating novel that explores the progression from melancholy to happiness, or vice versa. The delicate interplay between a light-hearted narrator and a brooding,… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Experimental fiction, Fiction

Title: Johnny, The Sea, And Me
Translator(s): Sara Lissa Paulson
Author: Melba Escobar
Original work: Johnny y el mar
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 115 pp.
ISBN: 9781592704095
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) While on vacation in the Caribbean, timid ten-year-old Pedro, who grows and shrinks depending on his emotions, gets lost and befriends Johnny, a gruff islander descended from pirates, who helps change Pedro's life.Illustrated by… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realist fiction, Fiction, Juvenile works, Novels, Fantasy fiction

Title: Juan de la Rosa
Translator(s): Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Author: Nataniel Aguirre
Original work: Juan de la Rosa
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 302 pp.
ISBN: 9780554344720
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's… read more

Title: Juan Martín El Empecinado
Translator(s): Alva Cellini
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Original work: Juan Martín, el Empecinado
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 0773477799
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the first English translation of Galdos's Juan Martin El Empecinado (1874), in the first series of his Empisodios nacionales. This is the only novel in the first series dedicated to a guerilla fighter rather than to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Juan Martín, El Empecinado
Translator(s): Alva Cellini
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Original work: Juan Martín, el Empecinado
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 0773477799
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This is the first English translation of Galdos's Juan Martin El Empecinado (1874), in the first series of his Empisodios nacionales. This is the only novel in the first series dedicated to a guerilla fighter rather than to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Juan the Landless
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Original work: Juan sin tierra
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785275
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This reworked and streamlined version of Goytisolo's 1975 novel spins the reader through an angry, prickly catalogue of Spanish colonialism and slavery.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Juanita La Larga
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Juan Valera
Original work: Juanita la Larga
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
City: Washington, D.C.
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9780813214351
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Juanita la Larga (1896), the third of Juan Valera's eponymous novels with a female protagonist, unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction