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 Memory House
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Lucía Graves
Original work: La casa de la memoria
Publisher: Vineyard Press
City: Port Jefferson, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 240 pp.
ISBN: 9781930067172
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A crucial period in history is brought vividly to life as Graves describes the plight of two lovers who are separated when one converts to Judaism and the other leaves Spain in 1492.

Title: The Merciful Women
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Federico Andahazi
Original work: Las piadosas
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 0802116744
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In the summer of 1816, Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary's sister, and Lord Byron hid themselves inside a Swiss villa, whiling away rainy afternoons with a Gothic novel writing contest. In Andahazi's reimagining, there was a fifth… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Nouvelles

Title: The Metal of the Dead
Translator(s): Anna-Marie Aldaz
Author: Concha Espina
Original work: El metal de los muertos
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg, London
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 311 pp.
ISBN: 0838755453
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Metal of the Dead denounces the deplorable living and labor conditions of the workers in the Rio Tinto copper mine and describes the events that led up to their 1917 general strike. Concha Espina spent several weeks in… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Romans

Title: The Mongolian Conspiracy
Translator(s): Katherine Silvers
Author: Rafael Bernal
Original work: Complot Mongol
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9780811220668
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A gripping and hilarious 1960s Mexico City noir.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Rafael Bernal ; translated by Katherine Silver ; introduction by Francisco Goldman.
Literary Genre: Noir fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Moses Expedition
Translator(s): A. V Lebron
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: Contrato con Dios
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 386 pp.
ISBN: 9781416590644
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) After fifty years in hiding, the Nazi war criminal known as the Butcher of Spiegelgrund has finally been tracked down by Father Anthony Fowler, a CIA operative and a member of the Vatican's secret service. He wants… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gomez-Jurado ; translated by A.V. Lebron.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Adventure fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Movies of My Life
Translator(s): Ezra E. Fitz
Author: Alberto Fuguet
Original work: Las películas de mi vida
Publisher: Rayo
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 287 pp.
ISBN: 0060534621
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Beltran Soler is from Chile, a land in constant movement. A seismologist who knows more about the science of tectonic plate movement than about life, he is cocooned in a world of seismic data, scientific articles, and natural… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Mule
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Juan Eslava Galán
Original work: La mula
Publisher: Bantam Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 290 pp.
ISBN: 0553385089
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Soon to be a major motion picture, this tender, satirical, antiwar novel--now available in English for the first time--vividly captures the tedium, propaganda, and absurdity of war as it explores the joys of true friendship in a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Mule
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Juan Eslava Galán
Original work: La mula
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9780553385083
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A simple muleteer caught up in the Spanish Civil War, Juan Castro Přez struggles to make his way home, confronting unrequited love, conflicts with both sides of the war, and exploitation by an opportunistic journalist, a German… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Murmur of Bees
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Sofía Segovia
Original work: El murmullo de las abejas
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 461 pp.
ISBN: 9781542040495
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition,… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Novels, Magic realist fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Romans

Title: The Museum of Eterna's Novel : the First Good Novel
Translator(s): Margaret Schwartz
Author: Macedonio Fernández
Original work: Museo de la novela de la eterna
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824061
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Museum or Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) is a book ahead of its time. Written during the 1930s and '40s - the heyday of Argentine literary culture - Museum is in many ways an "anti-novel: It opens with more… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Macedonio Fernández ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Schwartz ; preface by Adam Thirlwell ; introduction by the translator.
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Fiction

Title: The Museum of Useless Efforts
Translator(s): Tobias Hecht
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: El museo de los esfuerzos inútiles
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 156 pp.
ISBN: 9780803287648
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite ordinary. Crafting… read more

Title: The musical brain and other stories
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: El cerebro musical
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 9780811220293
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A collection of twenty short stories features tales about oddballs, freaks, and crazy people.
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: The Mutations
Translator(s): Charlotte Whittle
Author: Jorge Comensal
Original work: Las mutaciones
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 184 pp.
ISBN: 9780374216535
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City. Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when his privileged life… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Humorous fiction, Medical fiction, Romans

Title: The Naked Rainbow and Other Stories = El Arco Iris Desnudo y Otros Cuentos
Translator(s): Nasario García
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9780826345998
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of fictional stories based upon the personal experiences of the author and folklorist, Nasario García.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Naked Woman
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Armonía Etchepare Locino
Original work: La mujer desnuda
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: First Feminist Press edition
Number of pages: 154 pp.
ISBN: 9781936932436
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A woman's feminist awakening drives a hypocritical village to madness in rural Uruguay.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Feminist fiction, Historical, Magic realism (literature)

Title: The Naked Woman
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Armonía Etchepare Locino
Original work: La mujer desnuda
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
ISBN: 9781936932443
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Longlisted for the 2018 National Translation Award "A wild, brutal paean to freedom...' Somers' feminism is profound, and complicated." -NPR "A surreal, nightmarish book about women's struggle for autonomy-and how that struggle… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Feminist fiction, Historical, Magic realism (literature)

Title: The Nautical Chart
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher: Harcourt
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 466 pp.
ISBN: 0151005346
Additional Information: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romantic suspense fiction

Title: The Nautical Chart
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher: Harcourt
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 466 pp.
ISBN: 9780151005345
Summary/Reviews: (Publisher description) Coy is a Suspended Sailor without a ship. At an auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century. Tanger uses her considerable… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romantic suspense fiction

Title: The Neighborhood
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: Cinco esquinas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780374155124
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History

Title: The Night Buffalo
Author: Guillermo Arriaga Jordán
Original work: El búfalo de la noche
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9780743281867
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Night Buffalo is set in Mexico City, revolving around the mysterious suicide of Gregorio, a charismatic but troubled young man who was betrayed by the two people he trusted most. The beautifully rendered narrative is driven… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans