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: Tattoo
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Tatuaje
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781612192086
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-marxist and constant gourmet, is hired to investigate the identity of a man pulled out of the sea with a tattoo that reads, "born to raise hell in hell."
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: Tears in Rain
Translator(s): Lilit Thwaites
Author: Rosa Montero
Original 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 Segovia
Original 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 Herrera
Original 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/Multiple
Original 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 Bazterrica
Original 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

Title: Tenochtitlan : The Last Battle of the Aztecs
Translator(s): José León Sánchez
Author: José León Sánchez
Original work: Tenochtitlán : la última batalla de los aztecas
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
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden, Jorge Volpi Escalante, Milan Kundera
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original 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 Piglia
Original 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 Franz
Original 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 Guebel
Original 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 Saavedra
Original 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

Title: The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Álvaro Mutis
Original 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

Title: The Adventures of Don Chipote, Or, When Parrots Breast Feed
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Daniel Venegas
Original 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

Title: The Adventures of Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: State Street Press
City: Ann Arbor, MI
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 531 pp.
ISBN: 9780681453906
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: The Adventures of Mr. Puttison Among the Maya
Translator(s): Susan Giersbach-Rascón
Original work: Las aventuras de Mister Puttison entre los mayas
Publisher: Yax Te' Foundation
City: Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 9781886502383
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A historical and satirical novel whose principal character is an American adventurer who suddenly turns up in a Maya community in the highlands of western Guatemala. Apart from the impact that he causes in the community by his… read more

Title: The African Shore = La Orilla Africana
Translator(s): Jeffery Gray
Author: Rosa Rodrigo Rey
Original work: La orilla Africana
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven, CT
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 9780300196108
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Loosely interweaving the stories of Hamsa, a Moroccan shepherd preparing himself to serve as a lookout for a smuggling operation run by his uncle, and of a Colombian tourist (not named until the end), who, having lost his… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Ages of Lulu
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Almudena Grandes
Original work: Las edades de Lulú
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781583226889
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long before "The Sexual Life of Catherine M", Grandes was dazzling the literary world with this highly charged novel about a young woman embarking on a series of sexual adventures. Lulu's journey begins with the night she loses… read more

Title: The Albanian Affairs
Translator(s): Leland H. Chambers
Author: Susana Fortes
Original work: El amante albanés
Publisher: McPherson & Co.
City: Kingston, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9780929701790
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Under Enver Hoxha's dictatorship Albania was the most isolated and paranoid European state, where life could only be lived in complicity with its tyranny, or in clandestine resistance. The villa of state hero Zanum Radjik on… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: The Aleph : Including the Prose Fictions from The Maker
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 0142437883
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english