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): Lucy Greaves
Author: Mamen Sánchez
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 411 pp.
ISBN: 9781410496614
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Altogether Unexpected Disappearance of Atticus Craftsman follows an uptight Englishman who is sent to Madrid to close a literary magazine and the five fiery, close-knit Spanish women who must devise a plan in order to keep… read more
Literary Genre: Humorous fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Sara Lissa Paulson
Author: Ana Cristina Herreros
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
ISBN: 9781592703593
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long, long ago, ages before the Tooth Fairy, there lived in Spain a special kind of mouse--a Tooth Mouse--who collected children's lost baby teeth. Here you will discover the amazing and true story of one of them, Tooth Mouse… read more
Literary Genre: Children's stories, Folk tales, Picture books, Folklore, Fiction, Juvenile works, Contes, Livres d'images
Translator(s): Leyla Rouhi
Author: Enrique Gaspar
Original work: El anacronópete
Publisher: CreateSpace
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 153 pp.
ISBN: 9781467905220
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A satirical take on time travel, written before HG Wells, that starts in Paris in the late nineteenth century and takes the reader to China, Pompeii, and Mount Ararat at all the key moments in history. Witty and playful, it is… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction / general, Science fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Jeff Diteman
Author: Pablo Martín Sánchez
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 589 pp.
ISBN: 1941920713
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Bearing witness to key moments in Europe’s history, this thrilling novel explores the life of an anarchist in 1920s Spain.
Literary Genre: History, Biographical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: El juego del ángel
Publisher: Doubleday
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 531 pp.
ISBN: 9780385528702
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. Close to despair, he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Ruiz Zafón ; translated into English by Lucia Graves.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: El juego del ángel
Publisher: Anchor Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 531 pp.
ISBN: 9780767931113
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Offered a career-making writing deal from an enigmatic publisher in turbulent 1960s Barcelona, David Martín wonders about his capacity for writing a book for which the publisher claims others will live and die.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: El juego del ángel
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 753 pp.
ISBN: 9780739328491
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Offered a career-making writing deal from an enigmatic publisher in turbulent 1960s Barcelona, David Martin wonders about his capacity for writing a book for which the publisher claims others will live and die.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Ed Emery
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: La soledad del manager
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9781612190389
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Antonio Jauma, a director of the multinational conglomerate Petnay, is murdered, his widow seeks out private investigator Pepe Carvalho, who had met and forgotten the playboy executive after their single chance encounter?… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Translator(s): Michelle Gil-Montero
Author: María Negroni
Original work: La anunciación
Publisher: Action Books
City: Notre Dame, IN
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 239 pp.
ISBN: 9780900575815
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As a writer and critic of hemispheric influence, María Negroni has drawn from sources as diverse as Lautréamont, Pizarnik, and Ridley Scott's Alien to build a model of art as museo negro--repository of the anti-real, the anti-… read more
Author: Julio José Ordovás
Original work: El anticuerpo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 122 pp.
ISBN: 9781943150045
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A mysterious character from the city arrives at a peaceful country village, attracting the interest of Josu, a young adolescent. José Luis, the newly arrived vicar, is the ideal mentor for any rebellious boy with a curious heart… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Joseph Mulligan
Author: Gustavo Faverón Patriau
Original work: El anticuario
Publisher: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 209 pp.
ISBN: 9780802121608
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A renowned psycholinguist delves into the confession of a once-dear friend, a rare book collector who is incarcerated in a mental institution for killing his fiancée, told to him in bits of novels, fables, and historical… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Mystery fiction
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Vicente Muñoz Puelles
Original work: Curvatura del empeine
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 0802139698
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) As the novel opens Pierre is a boy, raised by a wealthy family of Belgian winemakers. Precociously curious about the opposite sex - particularly the intimate garments he finds drying in the laundry room - he is initiated into… read more
Literary Genre: Erotic stories, Erotic fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Emiliano Monge
Original work: El cielo árido
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 209 pp.
ISBN: 9781632061348
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set on a desolate, unnamed mesa, Emiliano Monge's The Arid Sky distills the essence of a Latin America ruthlessly hollowed out by uncontainable violence. This is an unsparing yet magnificent land, whose only constants are… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Christian fiction
Title: The Armies
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Evelio Rosero
Original work: Los ejércitos
Publisher: New Directions Book
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218641
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An elderly retired teacher is caught up in drug wars which slowly destroy his small town. Ismail, the professor, is a retired teacher in a small Colombian town where he passes the days pretending to pick oranges while spying on… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Translations, Historical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Kevin Gerry Dunn
Author: Cristian Perfumo
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9781542040556
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The calm of a sleepy Patagonian fishing port has been broken by murder. It's the case of a lifetime for brilliant and headstrong forensic detective Laura Badía. The crime is brutal and baffling. The victim is Julio Ortega, a… read more
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Original work: El asalto
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 9780140157185
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba", Reinaldo Arenas paints a harrowing, and at times boldly entertaining, Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a… read more
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: José Carlos Somoza
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 262 pp.
ISBN: 0374106770
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In ancient Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher Diagoras is convinced the pupil's death is not as accidental as it appears, and asks the famous Heracles Pontor, the "Decipherer of… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 255 pp.
ISBN: 0060882867
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The discovery of a South American dictator's rotting corpse in the deserted tangle of his crumbling palace prompts a search through his past and a chronicle of his progression from popular, beloved, unafraid ruler to isolated,… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Psychological fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 261 pp.
ISBN: 0965018949
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The general is dead. The Patriarch is gone--succumbing finally to an immense old age (some say he was 107 when he died; others claim he was 232). Once he was a popular figure, a man who loved the poor of his sun-drenched… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Psychological fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera
Publisher: Atria Paperback
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 258 pp.
ISBN: 9781476734248
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Nouvelles