TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
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Title: Tales from the Cuban Empire
Author: Antonio José PonteOriginal work: Cuentos de todas partes del imperio
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 190 pp.
ISBN: 0872864073
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the manner of fabled storytellers, Ponte creates a vivid picture of contemporary Cuba -- its real and imagined place in the world -- through stories told by a foreign exchange physics student, urban planners who discover an… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Short stories
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc.
City: Denver, CO
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 337 pp.
ISBN: 9781432704933
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The unimaginable has already begun.Tales from the Tortilla Curtain: There are projects under way even today that may result in a great wall between the United States and Mexico. In this day and age of fear and suspicion, we can… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Tales of Love and Distance
Translator(s): House of Writers / Casa de Escritores Inc.
Author: Javier Amaya Original work: Cuentos de amor y distancia
Publisher: La Cigarra Editions
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 45 pp.
ISBN: 9780967922638
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Javier Amaya depicts the experience of the human being who struggles with social and economic differences and the ultimate consequences of these differences: war. Fierce, incomprehensible, and useless wars that are the result of… read more
Translator(s): Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Black Coat Press
City: Encino, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 253 pp.
ISBN: 9781932983364
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contents: Mask of the monster / Matthew Baugh -- Cadavres exquis / Bill Cunningham -- When Lemmy met Jules / Terrance Dicks -- The vanishing devil / Win Scott Eckert… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Talking to Ourselves
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Author: Andrés NeumanOriginal work: Hablar solos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 150 pp.
ISBN: 9780374167530
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voices One trip. Two love stories. Three voices. Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he concentrates very hard. His father,… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Domestic fiction
Title: Tarzan's Tonsillitis
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alfredo Bryce EcheniquePublisher: Pantheon Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 262 pp.
ISBN: 0375421432
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Traces the relationship of a Peruvian composer and a cultured Salvadoran from 1960s Paris to 1980s California.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alfredo Bryce Echenique ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam.
Literary Genre: Epistolary fiction, Fiction, General info: other format available: online version:; bryce echenique, alfredo, 1939-; amigdalitis de tarzán english; tarzan's tonsillitis; 1st american ed; new york : pantheon, Books, ©2001
Title: Tattoo
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Manuel Vázquez MontalbánOriginal work: Tatuaje
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
City: London
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9781846686672
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-marxist and constant gourmet, is working as a private detective in Barcelona, when a body is pulled out of the sea, its face so badly destroyed that the only way of identifying it is through a tattoo… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Title: Tears in Rain
Translator(s): Lilit Thwaites
Author: Rosa MonteroOriginal work: Lágrimas en la lluvia
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9781612184388
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the United States of Earth, Madrid, 2109, the number of techno-human deaths is rapidly growing. Detective Bruna Husky is hired to discover what's behind this wave of insanity. She must trust no one, because those who call… read more
Literary Genre: Science fiction, Fiction
Title: Tears of Amber
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Sofía SegoviaOriginal work: Peregrinos
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 469 pp.
ISBN: 9781542027915
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With war looming dangerously close, Ilse's school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. As battle lines are drawn and East Prussia'… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction / historical / general, Fiction / sagas, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, War fiction, Mexica fiction -- translations into english
Title: Ten Planets : Stories
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Yuri HerreraOriginal work: Diez planetas
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 108 pp.
ISBN: 9781644452233
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by "one of Mexico's finest novelists". The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Philosophical fiction, Science fiction, Nouvelles
Title: Ten tales
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 0838754368
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This work contains new English translations of three short novels and seven short stories that critics have singled out as representative of Leopoldo Alas's short prose fiction. "The Two Boxes" evokes the frustration of an… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Tender is the Flesh
Translator(s): Sarah Moses
Author: Agustina María BazterricaOriginal work: Cadáver exquisito
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 1982150920
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans -- though no one calls them that anymore. First an infectious virus made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Dystopian fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Dystopias, Romans
Translator(s): José León Sánchez
Author: José León SánchezOriginal work: Tenochtitlán
Publisher: Roca-Basa Productions Inc
City: Tampa, FL
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 401 pp.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A novel which tells the story of those who lost the battle that led to the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521, i.e., the Aztecs.
Title: Terra Nostra
Author: Carlos FuentesOriginal work: Terra nostra
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 785 pp.
ISBN: 1564782875
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Chronological time is abolished and space concentrated into one area in a multi-dimensional pageant of Spanish history and culture that touches upon all facets of human experience.Introduction by Jorge Volpi Escalante; afterword… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Translations, Romans
Title: The absent city
Translator(s): Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Author: Ricardo PigliaOriginal work: La ciudad ausente
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham, NC
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 0822325578
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Absent City takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition todemocracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Romans
Title: The Absent Sea
Translator(s): Leland H. Chambers
Author: Carlos FranzOriginal work: Desierto
Publisher: McPherson & Co.
City: Kingston, N.Y.
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 375 pp.
ISBN: 9780929701943
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Just before the coup d'etat that overturned Chile's govenrment under Allende, a young, idealistic judge is posted to a provincial center in the vast northern desert. After the coup, the town is occupied by the military, which… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Carlos Franz ; translated by Leland H. Chambers.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Political fiction, Fiction, History
Title: The Absolute
Translator(s): Jessica Sequeira
Author: Daniel GuebelOriginal work: El absoluto
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 464 pp.
ISBN: 9781644211601
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "he Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans
Title: The Adventures and Misadventures of Don Quixote : An Up-to-Date Translation for Today's Readers
Translator(s): James H. Montgomery
Author: Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraOriginal work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: Ne Plus Ultra Pub.
City: [Place of publication not identified]
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 703 pp.
ISBN: 1419626914
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An up-to-date translation of Cervatnes' classic 17th century novel of an old man who goes somewhat insane and believes he is a knight errant.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Álvaro MutisOriginal work: Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero
Publisher: New York Review of Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 700 pp.
ISBN: 0940322919
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death,… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Short stories, Translations, Adventure fiction, Picaresque literature, Nouvelles
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Daniel VenegasOriginal work: Aventuras de don Chipote o cuando los pericos mamen
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 1558852972
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The hapless journey of the poor farmer Don Chipote de Jesús Maria Domínguez, who naively leaves behind his wife and children in Mexico to seek riches in the United States--where, he is assured, one can sweep up gold dust off… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Daniel Venegas ; translated from the Spanish by Ethriam Cash Brammer ; with a new introduction by Nicolás Kanellos.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans© 2025 - Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos