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: Please Talk to Me: Selected Stories
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel, Miranda France
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven, CT
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9780300213706
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first short story collection in the Margellos series, from a master of the genre and an irrepressible critic during Argentina's brutal years of repression Acclaimed for the gemlike perfection of her short stories, Liliana… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Poetics of Wonder : Passage to Mogador
Translator(s): Rhonda Lee Dahl Buchanan
Author: Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Original work: Nueve veces el asombro : nueve veces nueve cosas que dicen de Mogador
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 158 pp.
ISBN: 9781935210559
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This undefinable book: poetry, short tales, and intellegence is written on the skin, like a ritual tattoo of desire.
Literary Genre: Translations

Title: Point of balance
Translator(s): Martin Michael Roberts
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: El paciente
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
ISBN: 9781476766980
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In this superbly written, nail-biting thriller, a top neurosurgeon is forced to choose between ending the life of the most important person in America or guaranteeing his own daughter's horrifying death.
Literary Genre: Medical novels, Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction

Title: Point of Balance: a Thriller
Translator(s): Martin Michael Roberts
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: El paciente
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 356 pp.
ISBN: 9781476766980
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In this superbly written, nail-biting thriller, a top neurosurgeon is forced to choose between ending the life of the most important person in America or guaranteeing his own daughter's horrifying death.
Literary Genre: Medical novels, Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction

Title: Points of Departure : New Stories from Mexico
Translator(s): Mónica Lavín, Gustavo Valentin Segade
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 159 pp.
ISBN: 9780872863811
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seventeen short stories by contemporary Mexican authors born in the '50s and '60s, all well-established writers in the prime of their careers. Some have already achieved critical acclaim in the U.S., but many of these prize-… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Portrait in Sepia
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Perennial
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 0060936363
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lacking all memory of the first five years of her life because of a brutal trauma, Aurora del Valle is raised by her regal grandmother Paulina and eventually seeks to confront the mystery of her past, in a novel set in late-… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: Portrait in Sepia
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 343 pp.
ISBN: 9780066211619
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: Portrait in Sepia
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9780060898489
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Aurora del Valle, raised in the privileged class of Chile by her overwhelming grandmother, is tormented by nightmares and half-memories of events that occurred when she was a child in San Francisco's Chinatown. When she becomes… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: Portrait in Sepia
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9780061991530
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: Portrait in Sepia (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: HarperLargePrint
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 434 pp.
ISBN: 9780066214016
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Aurora del Valle, the daughter of a privileged family in 1890s Chile, sets out to unlock the family secrets that shaped her childhood.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: Possession
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Florencia Bonelli
Original work: Gaza
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 691 pp.
ISBN: 9781477824252
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Matilde Martinez and Eliah Al-Saud are fighting hard to forget each other. After watching their love crumble before their eyes in the perilous Congo, the kind, beautiful pediatric surgeon and the rich, handsome soldier struggle… read more

Title: Pot Pourri : Whistlings of an Idler
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman, Josefina Ludmer
Author: Eugenio Cambacérès
Original work: Potpourri : silbidos de un vago
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 144 pp.
ISBN: 9780195144642
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Emile Zola to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Romans

Title: Prime Time Suspect
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Alicia Giménez Bartlett
Original work: Muertos de papel
Publisher: Europa editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 299 pp.
ISBN: 9781933372310
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Delicado and her perennial sidekick, Sgt. Fermin Garzon, are thrown into a high-profile case-the murder inquiry into a much reviled gossip columnist, Ernestos Valdes-after the investigators originally assigned to it are pulled… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: Procession of Shadows : the Novel of Tamoga
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Julián Ríos
Original work: Cortejo de sombras
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9781564786531
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Stories of love, war, and vengeance, focusing on the tiny, remote village of Tamoga-- a place where vendettas are passed down from generation to generation, and where violence has left its trace in every corner
Additional Information: Responsibility: Julián Ríos ; translated by Nick Caistor ; with a forword by the author.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Prodigies
Translator(s): Sue Burke
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Original work: Prodigios
Publisher: Small Beer Press
City: Easthampton, MA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 161 pp.
ISBN: 9786187309921
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Prodigies explores the story of the poet Novalis's birthplace in the German town of Weissenfels after it is converted into a boarding house. Moving, subtle, and full of wit, irony, and dreams, this novel fills the house with… read more
Literary Genre: Electronic books, Fiction, History

Title: Pubis Angelical
Author: Manuel Puig
Original work: Pubis angelical
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 236 pp.
ISBN: 9780816636815
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three women -- an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband's fairy-tale castle; a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s… read more

Title: Puerto Rican Poetry : A Selection from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times
Translator(s): Robert Márquez
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
City: Amherst, MA
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 490 pp.
ISBN: 9781558495616
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This volume offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry available in English. It includes the work of the sixty-four poest, as well as many previously inaccessible selections from Puerto Rico'… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Puppet : A Chicano Novella
Translator(s): Barbara D. Riess, Trino Sandoval
Author: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas
Original work: Puppet
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN: 082632228X
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET)  "Puppet is a complex, challenging, and ultimately compelling narrative. Revolving around the Chicano movement of the 1970s and 1980s, it tells the story of the murder of Puppet and the subsequent police cover-up. Just as… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Purgatory
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Tomás Eloy Martínez
Original work: Purgatorio
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 273 pp.
ISBN: 9781608197118
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) Simón Cardoso had been dead thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, spotted him at lunchtime in the lounge bar in Trudy Tuesday. So begins Purgatory. Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, vanished during a trip to map an… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Tomás Eloy Martínez ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: Purity of Blood
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Limpieza de sangre
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 267 pp.
ISBN: 0452287987
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Captain Alatriste attempts to rescue the daughter of a friend from a convent, but finds himself involved in a political and religious conspiracy connected with the Inquisition.
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction