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: The Last Reader
Translator(s): Asa Zatz
Author: David Toscana
Original work: Último lector
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
City: Lubbock
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9780896726642
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A small town in the Mexican desert has a library where few are interested in books. The only reader is the librarian who sees everything through the lens of literature. When a girl is found dead in the librarian's… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: David Toscana ; translated by Asa Zatz.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: The Last Resort (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Carmen Posadas
Original work: Cinco moscas azules
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 496 pp.
ISBN: 0786285214
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Rafael Molinet Rojas, a Spaniard living in London, plans his suicide following the death of his mother. However, the story of the scandalous and deeply suspicious death of high-society lothario Jaime Valdes causes him to… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Psychological fiction, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: The Last Resort : A Mystery
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Carmen Posadas
Original work: Cinco moscas azules
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 299 pp.
ISBN: 0375508864
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Depressed over the death of his mother, Rafael Molinet, an elderly, introverted Spaniard living in London, makes plans for his suicide until he becomes involved in the investigation of the murder of a Madrid playboy at a lavish… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Psychological fiction, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: The Legacy of Shadows
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Daniel Boán
Original work: Legado de sombras
Publisher: John Gordon Burke Publisher
City: Evanston, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 126 pp.
ISBN: 9780934272889
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The Legacy of Shadows is an enigma wrapped in mystery as a writer, in an attempt to understand the death of his artist friend, finds unexpected answers in a remote and largely uninhibited mining town which is lost in both space… read more

Title: The Letters That Never Came
Translator(s): Louise B. Popkin
Author: Mauricio Rosencof
Original work: Las cartas que no llegaron
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 106 pp.
ISBN: 0826333737
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of one family, which reaches from Hitler's camps to the dungeons of the Uruguayan junta, is recounted in soul-stirring fragments by a single subject: in the memory of Moishe the child, the youth, and the man, fiction… read more
Literary Genre: Biography, Fiction, Biographies, Romans

Title: The Librarian of Auschwitz
Translator(s): Lilit Žekulin Thwaites
Author: Antonio Iturbe
Original work: La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz
Publisher: Goodwin Books/Henry Holt and Company
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 423 pp.
ISBN: 9781627796187
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many… read more
Literary Genre: Young adult fiction, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction, Fictional work, War fiction, Novels, Young adult works, Fiction, Juvenile works, Spanish fiction, Romans

Title: The Librarian of Saint-Malo
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: La bibliotecaria de Saint-Malo
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
City: Nashville, TN
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 369 pp.
ISBN: 9780785239918
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village" -- Saint-Malo, France: August 1939. Jocelyn's husband Antoine is drafted… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, War fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Life and Adventures of Lazarillo de Tormes
Translator(s): Thomas Roscoe, Alain René Le Sage, John Henry Brady , Mateo Alemán
Author: Desconocido
Original work: Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2010
ISBN: 9780548934883

Title: The Life and Memoirs of Doctor Pi and Other Stories
Translator(s): Emily Toder
Author: Edgar Bayley
Original work: Vida y memoria del Doctor Pi y otras historias
Publisher: Clockroot Books
City: Northampton, MA
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 86 pp.
ISBN: 9781566568371
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The first English translation of a major Argentine literary figure. With an uncommon blend of elation and discretion, The Life and Memoirs of Doctor Pi takes readers on a journey of mysterious encounters, unspoken agreements,… read more

Title: The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes : His Fortunes and Adversities
Translator(s): W. S. Merwin
Author: Desconocido
Original work: Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 118 pp.
ISBN: 9781590171325
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The bastard son of a prostitute, Lazarillo goes to work for a blind beggar, who beats and starves him, while teaching him some very useful dirty tricks. The boy then drifts in and out of the service of a succession of masters,… read more

Title: The Linden Tree
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: El tilo
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 92 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219082
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In The Linden Tree, the narrator, who could be Aira himself (born the same year, in the same place, a writer who is now also living in Buenos Aires) writes down his childhood memories.
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Psychological fiction

Title: The Literary Conference
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: César Aira
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 90 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218788
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cesar is a translator who's fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Science fiction, Fiction

Title: The Lizard's Tale
Translator(s): Julio Ortega, Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: José Donoso
Original work: Lagartija sin cola
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, Ill.
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9780810127029
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) At the center of The Lizard's Tale is Antonio Muñoz-Roa, a prominent painter whose circumstances bear a striking resemblance to Donoso's own when he wrote the novel. Hiding in his Barcelona apartment, obsessed with… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: José Donoso ; edited by Julio Ortega ; translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Chilean fiction -- 20th century -- translations into english

Title: The Lonely Hearts Club
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
City: London
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 151 pp.
ISBN: 9781852427528
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the forty-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into his… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Lords of Time
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Eva García Sáenz
Original work: Los señores del tiempo
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 481 pp.
ISBN: 9781984898630
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The third novel in the internationally bestselling White City Trilogy sees Kraken on the hunt for a murderer whose macabre crimes are lifted straight from history. Kraken is charged with investigating the death of a businessman… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Lost Angel
Translator(s): Carlos Frías
Author: Javier Sierra
Original work: El ángel perdido
Publisher: Atria
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9781451632798
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In approximately seventy-two hours, a little known Middle Eastern terrorist group plans to bring about the end of the world, and a central aspect of their plan is the kidnapping of Martin Fabor, an undercover American scientist.… read more

Title: The Lost Steps
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Original work: Los pasos perdidos
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 9780816638079
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York City, takes a journey with his mistress to one of the few remaining areas of the world not yet touched by civilization the upper reaches of a great South American river.

Title: The Madwoman of Gandoca
Translator(s): Terry J. Martin
Author: Anacristina Rossi
Original work: La loca de Gandoca
Publisher: E. Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 110 pp.
ISBN: 0773456376
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) La Loca de Gandoca caused a national outcry in Costa Rica when it was published in 1992. It blew the whistle on a secret plot by government officials and private investors to develop the Gandoca-Manzanilla Wildlife Refuge, which… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Magic Lantern
Translator(s): Margaret Carson
Author: José Tomás de Cuéllar
Original work: La linterna mágica
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 166 pp.
ISBN: 9780195115024
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Two "renderings of a Mexican society fast unraveling under the mounting influence of European culture.Edited and with an introduction by Margo Glantz. Illustrations by José María Villasana.
Literary Genre: Translations

Title: The Maids of Havana
Translator(s): Jonathan Curry-Machado
Author: Pedro Pérez Sarduy
Original work: Las criadas de La Habana
Publisher: AuthorHouse
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 9781449070700
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her… read more