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 Sickness
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Alberto Barrera
Original work: La enfermedad
Publisher: Quercus
City: London
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 151 pp.
ISBN: 9781935639268
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The fixation has its own… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Siege
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El asedio
Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 598 pp.
ISBN: 9781400069682
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Cádiz, 1811. The Spanish port city has been surrounded by Napoleon's army for a year. Their backs to the sea, its residents endure routine bombardments and live in constant fear of a French invasion. And now the bodies of… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Thrillers (fiction)

Title: The Silence of the White City
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Eva García Sáenz
Original work: El silencio de la ciudad blanca
Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 508 pp.
ISBN: 9781984898593
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Already a major bestseller in Spain and Latin America, the first installment of the sensational Trilogy of the White City introduces Inspector Unai López de Ayala and follows his hunt for a terrifying serial killer. Young… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Sister : A Novel of Emily Dickinson
Translator(s): William Rowlandson
Author: Paola Kaufmann
Original work: La hermana
Publisher: Overlook/Rookery
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 1585679518
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale based on the life of the reclusive classic author follows her precarious relationship with her parents, her hidden passions and aspirations, her secret views on religion and love, and her interactions with the men in her… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Sixty-five Years of Washington
Translator(s): Steve Dolph
Author: Juan José Saer
Original work: Glosa
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824207
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A wealthy, elegant, educated man returns to the seaside Argentinean city of Santa Fe and befriends a newcomer to the area and the two men's lives take drastically different paths that lead them both back to the same point.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan José Saer ; translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Skating Rink
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: A New Directions Book
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217132
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a civil servant secretly uses public funds to build her a skating rink in the ruins of a seaside mansion, but Nuria has affairs and soon the rink becomes a crime… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Literary Genre: Noir fiction, Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Fiction

Title: The Skin of the Sky
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: La piel del cielo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 0374265755
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Skin of the Sky is the story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant and troubled astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother, brothers,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Skin of the Sky
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: La piel del cielo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780374265755
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Skin of the Sky is the story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant and troubled astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Skin of the Sky
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: La piel del cielo
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780826341204
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The illegitimate son of a wealthy Mexico City businessman and a poor, but intelligent, peasant woman, Lorenzo is introduced to science (pasteurization and the wonders of flight) by his mother, beginning his lifelong passion. This… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Sky over Lima
Translator(s): Andrea Rosenberg
Author: Juan Gómez Bárcena
Original work: El cielo de Lima
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
City: Boston
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 275 pp.
ISBN: 9780544630055
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A retelling of a fantastical true story: two young men seduce Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jiménez with the words of an imaginary woman and inspire one of his greatest love poems. Jose Galvez and Carlos Rodriguez are poets. Or, at… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction

Title: The Song of the Distant Root
Author: Elizabeth Subercaseaux
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 88 pp.
ISBN: 1891270117
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Elizabeth Subercaseaux ; translation and foreword by John J. Hassett.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Allegories, Romans

Title: The Sound of Things Falling
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Ruido de las cosas al caer
Publisher: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 9781594487484
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realizes that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Speed of Light
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Original work: La velocidad de la luz
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 1596912146
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young would-be writer from Catalonia meets Vietnam veteran Rodney Falk at a Midwestern university in 1987, but it is only years later, when he is a successful novelist, that he begins to understand what Rodney reveals about… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Spirit of Science Fiction
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: El espíritu de la ciencia-ficción
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 196 pp.
ISBN: 9780735222854
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mexico, 1970s. Jan and Remo find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world- or sacrifice themselves to it. The city tugs… read more
Literary Genre: Novels

Title: The Steps : Stories from Heaven & Inferno | Los pasos cuentos del cielo y del infierno
Translator(s): Timothy Pratt, Mireya Pérez
Author: Luz E. Macías
Original work: Los pasos : cuentos del cielo y del infierno = The steps : stories from heaven and inferno
Publisher: La Casa del Hada Editores
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 7 pp.
ISBN: 9789583315183

Title: The Sterile Seed
Translator(s): José Z. Tallet
Author: José Z. Tallet
Original work: La semilla estéril
Publisher: Cefatex International
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 371 pp.
ISBN: 9780965623285

Title: The Stories of Eva Luna
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 330 pp.
ISBN: 0743217187
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Collection of twenty-three short stories of Argentinean peasants and patricians, revolutionaries and tyrants, and seductresses and fortune tellers.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Picaresque fiction, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles, Romans picaresques

Title: The Story of H
Translator(s): Valerie Miles
Author: Marina Perezagua
Original work: Yoro
Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 284 pp.
ISBN: 9780062660718
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the wake of the inferno unleashed over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, two stories unfold: that of Jim, an American soldier when the bomb dropped, and H, a mere schoolgirl at the time. Both victims of the bomb, the two cross… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: The story of my teeth
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Original work: La historia de mis dientes
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 195 pp.
ISBN: 9781566894104
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Romans, Fictional work

Title: The Story of My Teeth
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Original work: La historia de mis dientes
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 195 pp.
ISBN: 9781566894098
Summary/Reviews: (Back cover) Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez Sanchez is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the 'Notorious Infamous' like Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton,… read more
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Romans, Fictional work