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): Anne McLean
Author: Paula Varsavsky
Original work: Nadie alzaba la voz
Publisher: Ontario Review Press
City: Princeton, NJ
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 0865380996
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Luz Goldman, the narrator of No One Said a Word, grows up in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in the seventies when Argentina is ruled by a military dictatorship. But politics is only peripheral in Paula… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 1880684918
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Joaquin Buitrago, a photographer in the Castaneda Insane Asylum, believes a patient is a prostitute he knew years earlier. His obsession in confirming Matilde's identity leads him to explore the clinics records, and her tragic… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Psychological fiction, Romans
Translator(s): J. S. Bernstein
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Perennial Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9780060751579
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: Demasiados héroes
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 272 pp.
ISBN: 9780385519915
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lorenza and her son, Mateo, return to Buenos Aires as they try to find Ramon, Mateo's father, who was a political radical with Lorenza in Argentina's "Dirty War," as Lorenza deals with her memories of the past and Mateo, who is… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Laura Restrepo ; translated from the Spanish by Ernesto Mestre-Reed.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Romans
Translator(s): Jessica Knauss
Author: Lidia Falcón
Original work: Camino sin retorno
Publisher: Loose Leaves Publishing
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 293 pp.
ISBN: 1624320023
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Barcelona, 1986: The dictatorship is over and life is free and easy. But what if you can't forget the seventies? Elisa's troubled past comes back to her in the form of her ex-husband, Arnau, who needs her help to exonerate a… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Agustín Fernández Mallo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 179 pp.
ISBN: 9780374222819
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the middle of the Nevada desert stands a solitary poplar tree, covered in hundreds of pairs of shoes. Farther along U.S. Route 50, a lonely prostitute falls in love with a collector of found photographs. In Las Vegas, an… read more
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Agustín Fernández Mallo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 195 pp.
ISBN: 9780374222826
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Somewhere in Spain, Marc, an avid reader of the Philips Agricultural Guide: 1968, pegs mathematical formulas to clotheslines on the roof of an eight-story building. In London, the artist Jodorkovski spends hours painting tiny… read more
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Agustín Fernández Mallo
Original work: Nocilla lab
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 153 pp.
ISBN: 9780374222789
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a deserted city near Chernobyl, a man returns to wander the desolate streets. In a bar on a small island south of Sardinia, a writer struggling to complete the Project drifts into reverie.
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction
Author: José Manuel Prieto González
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 0802116655
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A brilliant novel of love, international smuggling, and the art of letter writing is offered by one of Latin America's promising young literary talents. J. lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories
Author: José Manuel Prieto González
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780802138651
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A brilliant novel of love, international smuggling, and the art of letter writing is offered by one of Latin America's promising young literary talents. J. lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories
Translator(s): León Ma. Guerrero
Author: José Rizal
Original work: Noli me tángere
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 357 pp.
ISBN: 9780486834429
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A scorching exposé of the Spanish government's corruption and abuses of power, this novel is famed as a catalyst to the Philippine Revolution. Noli Me Tángere was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, History, Fiction, Romance fiction, Translations, Love stories, Romans
Translator(s): Harold Augenbraum
Author: José Rizal
Original work: Noli me tángere
Publisher: Penguin Group
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 444 pp.
ISBN: 0143039695
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, History, Fiction, Romance fiction, Translations, Love stories, Romans
Translator(s): Valerie Miles
Author: Edmundo Paz Soldán
Original work: Norte
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 326 pp.
ISBN: 9780226207209
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexico/US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Juan Gómez Bárcena
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830973
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Tonanes is one of so many soldiers without glory who roam like beggars for the land they helped subdue. When he receives one last mission, to hunt down a renegade Indian who's called… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Juan Gómez Bárcena
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830676
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Toñanes is just one of the many inglorious soldiers eking a small existence on the land he helped conquer. When he receives one last mission, to hunt down a renegade Indian who calls… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Romans
Author: Lourdes Vázquez
Original work: Not myself without you
Publisher: Bilingual Press
City: Tempe, AZ
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 141 pp.
ISBN: 9781931010689
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In Not Myself without You, a working-class Puerto Rican family of the 1950s lives surrounded by spirits, ghosts, and witches, a result of incantations performed in their living room. Chronicling nearly two decades of the family… read more
Title: Obsession
Translator(s): Rosemary Peele
Author: Florencia Bonelli
Original work: Gaza
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 593 pp.
ISBN: 9781612184357
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) When Eliah Al-Saud and Matilde Martinez meet on a flight to Paris, they have little in common. Eliah is the rich and powerful son of a Saudi prince, and the owner of a French security company―actually a front for mercenary and… read more
Author: Marisela Rizik
Original work: El tiempo del olvido
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 215 pp.
ISBN: 1931896003
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Of Forgotten Times tells the story of women from two different families - one rich and the other mired in poverty - whose only point in common is their connection to the ruthless dictator of their Caribbean homeland. It is at… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Graciela Lucero-Hammer
Author: Reyna Carranza
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston [N.Y.]
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9780773421110
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first English translation of Reyna Carranza's historical novel of dynastic decline in twentieth-century Argentina.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Reyna Carranza ; translated from the Spanish, with an introduction by Graciela Lucero-Hammer ; with a foreword by Fernando Reati.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, History
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: London
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 9780241968741
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1949 Garcia Marquez witnessed the opening of several tombs, one of which contained the skeleton of a young girl with 22 metres of red hair. This novel recreates her legend as a popular saint. Marquez won the Nobel Prize for… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Love stories, Fictional work, Novels, Romance fiction, Fiction, Romans