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: 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: Poso Wells
Translator(s): Dick Cluster
Author: María Gabriela Alemán Salvador
Original work: Poso Wells
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 157 pp.
ISBN: 9780872867550
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the squalid settlement of Poso Wells, women have been regularly disappearing, but the authorities have shown little interest. When the leading presidential candidate comes to town, he and his entourage are electrocuted in a… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction)

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

Title: Purity of Blood
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Limpieza de sangre
Publisher: Penguin Group
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 267 pp.
ISBN: 9780452287983
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A desperate father hires Alatriste to rescue his daughter a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. The priest has threatened to reveal that the man's family is of Jewish descent, so he has no… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Purity of Blood
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Limpieza de sangre
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 267 pp.
ISBN: 0399153209
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hired to rescue a man's daughter from a convent where a powerful corrupt priest is forcing her to be his personal concubine, Alatriste finds himself thrust into a religious and political conspiracy with ties to the highest levels… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Queen Cocaine
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Núria Amat
Original work: Reina de América
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 222 pp.
ISBN: 9780872864351
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Queen Cocaine takes place amid the violence that rules everyday life in Colombia. In the remote Pacific Coast jungle, a region of incessant rain that is ravaged by the drug trade and by civil war, the army, the guerillas, and the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Quesadillas
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
Original work: Si viviéramos en un lugar normal
Publisher: & Other Stories
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9781908276223
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It's the eighties in Lagos de Moreno - a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows - and a poor family struggles to overcome the bizarre dangers of living in Mexico. The father, a high school civics… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Humorous fiction

Title: Quesadillas
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
Original work: Si viviéramos en un lugar normal
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 168 pp.
ISBN: 9780374533953
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "A brilliant new comic novel from "a linguistic virtuoso" (José Antonio Aguado, Diari de Terrassa). It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno--a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows--and a poor family… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Humorous fiction