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): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: Jorge Molist
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 379 pp.
ISBN: 9780743297516
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Ring follows a young New York lawyer who receives two rings -- one from her fiancé and one that will lead her on an unforgettable adventure in search of a Templar treasure that has remained hidden for centuries.
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Ethriam Cash Brammer
Publisher: Piñata Books
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 26 pp.
ISBN: 1558854096
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) On El Rancho Grande, the grandchildren are not so interested in how Grandpa bought the ranch, but in what can be done on the ranch. The children play hide and seek in cornfields, under "the canopy of green leaves, golden… read more
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 577 pp.
ISBN: 0374191484
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: To track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A… read more
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Fictional work, Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 648 pp.
ISBN: 9780312427481
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Chronicles the strange journey of two Latin American poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, as seen through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Fictional work, Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Mark Schafer
Author: Belén Gopegui
Original work: La escala de los mapas
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 223 pp.
ISBN: 9780872865105
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sergio Prim is a staid and solitary middle-aged man who finds himself suddenly in love. A geographer by trade, but with a broken radar when it comes to navigating human relationships, he is thrown into a psychological crisis by… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Psychological fiction, Translations, Love stories
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Gioconda Belli
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 332 pp.
ISBN: 9780060833138
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Drawn to sixteen-year-old Lucia during a visit to Madrid's Prado museum, art historian Manuel draws parallels between Lucia and Juana the Mad, the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, whose story Lucia and Manuel find… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Gioconda Belli
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 325 pp.
ISBN: 0060833122
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Drawn to sixteen-year-old Lucia during a visit to Madrid's Prado museum, art historian Manuel draws parallels between Lucia and Juana the Mad, the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, whose story Lucia and Manuel find… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Rosalie Knecht
Author: César Aira
Original work: Costurera y el viento
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219129
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A seamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local art teacher fears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has been accidentally kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. Completely unhinged, she calls a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Rosalie Knecht.
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Humorous fiction, Fables
Author: Alberto Ruy Sánchez
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9781893996991
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An erotic painter of dreams, who fuses the most unblemished sensuality with the most transparent spirituality.
Literary Genre: Literatura hispanoamericana- -- méxico
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 283 pp.
ISBN: 9781594488030
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Miscellaneous fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 283 pp.
ISBN: 9781594488030
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Miscellaneous fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Eduardo A. Sacheri
Original work: Pregunta de sus ojos
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 384 pp.
ISBN: 9781590514504
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Eduardo Sacheri ; translated by John Cullen.
Literary Genre: Noir fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Javier Sierra
Original work: La cena secreta
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 329 pp.
ISBN: 9780743287654
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1497 Milan, a Papal Inquisitor seeks to confirm, or deny, the messages of the "Soothsayer," who alleges that Leonardo Da Vinci is a heretic and has hidden heretical messages in his painting of The Last Supper. 
Literary Genre: Christian fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Javier Sierra
Original work: La cena secreta
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 329 pp.
ISBN: 0743287649
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message… read more
Literary Genre: Christian fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Javier Sierra
Original work: La cena secreta
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 533 pp.
ISBN: 9780739465417
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message… read more
Literary Genre: Christian fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Javier Sierra
Original work: La cena secreta
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 503 pp.
ISBN: 9780786284672
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1497 a Dominican inquisitor is sent to Milan to supervise the final phase of the painting of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Never a conformist, da Vinci creates a masterpiece that raises questions that have yet to be… read more
Literary Genre: Christian fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Original work: Sombra de la sombra
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
City: El Paso, TX
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 233 pp.
ISBN: 1933693002
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A motley group of men who meet to play dominoes in a 1922 Mexico City hotel bar witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast, greedy army officers… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La sombra del viento
Publisher: The Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 486 pp.
ISBN: 9780143126393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La sombra del viento
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 486 pp.
ISBN: 9780143034902
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La sombra del viento
Publisher: Subterranean Press
City: Burton, MI
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 496 pp.
ISBN: 9781596061668
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction