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: 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

Title: Quislaona: A Dominican Fantasy Anthology
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: DWA Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 212 pp.
ISBN: 9781737246794
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Quislaona welcomes you to the fantasy island where the water glows with magic, and the Loro flies high. Run alongside the ciguapas protecting the island's sacred hearts or listen to the merfolk chat at Mimi's Bar. Within this… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Rabbit Island : Stories
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Elvira Navarro
Original work: La isla de los conejos
Publisher: Two Lines Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 9781949641097
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Combining the gritty surrealism of David Lynch with the explosive interior meditations of Clarice Lispector, the stories in Elvira Navarro's Rabbit Island traverse the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: Rain Over Madrid
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Andrés Barba
Original work: Ha dejado de llover
Publisher: Hispabooks
City: Madrid
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 215 pp.
ISBN: 9788494228476
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) She remembers that the comment really stung and then immediately stopped stinging--like accidentally touching an open sore--when she took into account that a virtue can also be a defect if you just shift your perspective a few… read more

Title: Ramifications
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Daniel Saldaña París
Original work: El nervio principal
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895965
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On a Tuesday in July 1994, Teresa leaves her home in a residential neighborhood of Mexico City and travels to Chiapas, drawn by news of the formation of the Zapatista National Liberation Army. She leaves behind a sixteen-year-old… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction

Title: Ratfish
Translator(s): José Lucas Badue
Author: R. A. Ramírez-Báez
Original work: Los ratapeces
Publisher: Sitel
City: Jackson Heights, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 30 pp.
ISBN: 9780974500515
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In the story "Ratfish", the main character is an illegal immigrant, a house painter who lives traumatized by the unrelenting harassment from the INS. Two word "ratfish", as it can be clear seen, is a new coinage composed of two… read more

Title: Rattlesnake
Translator(s): Sean Higgins, Jill Robbins
Author: Arturo Arias
Original work: Cascabel
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 1931896011
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tom Wright, an American CIA agent, is sent into Guatemala to rescue an Australian banker who has been kidnapped by a guerrilla organization known as EGP.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Ready, Set, Go
Translator(s): Ana Patete
Author: Inés Bortagaray
Original work: Prontos, listos, ya
Publisher: Veliz Books
City: El Paso, TX
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 115 pp.
ISBN: 9780996913492
Summary/Reviews: (Barnes & Noble) Fiction. Latinx Studies. Translated by Ana Patete. "An original and dazzling road novel that invites us, alongside its protagonist, to traverse the imagination's landscape, the language of dreams, and the rituals of… read more

Title: Reasons of State
Translator(s): Francis Partridge
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Original work: El recurso del método
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 373 pp.
ISBN: 9781612192796
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist--to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Augusto Roa Bastos… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Recital of the Dark Verses
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Luis Felipe Fabre
Original work: Declaración de las canciones oscuras
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 176 pp.
ISBN: 9781646052790
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A masterful undertaking of historical literature, following sixteenth-century religious fervor in a picaresque novel about Saint John of the Cross. In August 1592, a bailiff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Úbeda… read more
Literary Genre: Biographical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Picaresque fiction

Title: Red Ants
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Pergentino José
Original work: Hormigas rojas
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 141 pp.
ISBN: 9781646050192
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A literary triumph by one of Mexico's most promising young authors, Red Ants is the first ever literary translation into English from the Sierra Zapotec. This vibrant collection of short stories by Pergentino José updates magical… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations

Title: Red April
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Santiago Roncagliolo
Original work: Abril rojo
Publisher: Pantheon Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 271 pp.
ISBN: 9780375425448
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lima prosecutor Félix Chacaltana Saldívar becomes the investigator in a mysterious murder, discovering links to the terrorist group, the Shining Path, and mass graves that expose the destruction and corruption of Peruvian society… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Santiago Roncagliolo ; translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Political fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Red April
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Santiago Roncagliolo
Original work: Abril rojo
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 271 pp.
ISBN: 0307388387
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lima prosecutor Félix Chacaltana Saldívar becomes the investigator in a mysterious murder, discovering links to the terrorist group, the Shining Path, and mass graves that expose the destruction and corruption of Peruvian… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Political fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Red Queen
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: Reina roja
Publisher: Minotaur Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 377 pp.
ISBN: 9781250853677
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Introducing Antonia Scott--the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander--in Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen, the #1 international award-winning bestseller & thriller that has taken the world by storm.… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Red Queen
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: Reina roja
Publisher: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 607 pp.
ISBN: 9798885790888
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Antonia Scott--the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother--has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Reinbou
Translator(s): Jessica Powell
Author: Pedro Cabiya
Original work: Reinbou
Publisher: Astra House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781662602511
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Reinbou explores the consequences of political and societal upheaval, corruption, and violence in modern Dominican society through the eyes of a child in Santo Domingo after the Civil War of 1965.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels