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 Book of God and Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery
Translator(s): Dolores M. Koch
Author: Enrique Joven
Original work: El castillo de las estrellas
Publisher: Harper
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 347 pp.
ISBN: 9780061456879
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In his search for truth, a young Jesuit joins a group that has for centuries been trying to decipher the secrets of a mysterious book known as the Voynich Manuscript. When a key to unlocking it is discovered in the church where… read more
Literary Genre: Code and cipher stories, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Book of Imprudent Flora
Translator(s): David Haughton
Author: Claudio Romo
Original work: El álbum de la flora imprudente, por Lázaro de Sahagún, descubridor y estudioso de la vida vegetal
Publisher: Gingko Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 64 pp.
ISBN: 9781584236948
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Claudio Romo is a revelation. Simply the most exciting discovery to come out of Chile since Roberto Bolaño, Alejandro Zambra or Lina Meruane. Though one finds hints of Italo Calvino and a nod to Jules Verne, he deftly combines… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Diary fiction, Fantasy fiction

Title: The Book of Murder
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Guillermo Martínez
Original work: Muerte lenta de Luciana B
Publisher: Viking
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 215 pp.
ISBN: 9780670019946
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An up-and-coming young writer who has little in common with Kloster, a literary giant whose disturbing crime novels dominate the bestseller lists. However, they have both, at one time, employed the secretarial services of the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Guillermo Martínez ; translated from Spanish by Sonia Soto.
Literary Genre: Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: The Book That Kibo Wrote
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Mariana Ruiz Johnson
Original work: El libro que Kibo escribió
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 28 pp.
ISBN: 9780802855893
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One night in the savanna, Kibo the rhino writes a book, and it travels from reader to reader, connecting animals from across the globe.
Literary Genre: Picture books for children, Picture books, Juvenile works, Fiction, Animal fiction, Livres d'images

Title: The Bottom of the Sky
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Rodrigo Fresán
Original work: El fondo del cielo
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 266 pp.
ISBN: 9781940953786
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An homage to American science fiction films and novels, The Bottom of the Sky is the story of two boys, a disturbingly beautiful girl, and their joint love for other planets. Their friendship is formed during the heyday of sci-fi… read more

Title: The Boy in Drawer
Translator(s): Robert N. Munsch
Author: Robert N. Munsch
Original work: El muchacho en la gaveta
Publisher: Annick Press
City: Toronto
Year of Publication: 2001
ISBN: 9781550370973
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Shelley finds a small boy in her drawer who causes a lot of trouble. Robert Munsch's award-winning books have become a staple on the bookshelves of families worldwide. His stories reflect the joys and challenges of everyday… read more

Title: The Bride from Odessa
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Edgardo Cozarinsky
Original work: La novia de Odessa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 161 pp.
ISBN: 0374116733
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Set in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Vienna, Budapest and Odessa, both before and after the Second World War, Edgardo Cozarinsky's stories belong to the spirit of Borges and to a great Argentine cosmopolitan tradition: that of the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Short stories, Romans

Title: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: La hermandad de la Sábana Santa
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 656 pp.
ISBN: 9780739327081
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: La hermandad de la Sábana Santa
Publisher: Bantam Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 399 pp.
ISBN: 0385339623
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: La hermandad de la Sábana Santa
Publisher: Bantam Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 399 pp.
ISBN: 9780385339629
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A fire at the Turin cathedral and the discovery of a mutilated corpse are the latest in a disturbing series of events surrounding the mysterious cloth millions believe to be the authentic burial shroud of Jesus Christ. Those… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: La hermandad de la Sábana Santa
Publisher: Dell
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 546 pp.
ISBN: 9780440243021
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Brothers Corona
Translator(s): Peter G. Broad
Author: Rogelio Guedea
Original work: Conducir un tráiler
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
City: Lubbock, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 153 pp.
ISBN: 9780896728639
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A modern-day picaresque novel by one of Mexico's best The Brothers Corona is a novel that unfolds like a Sam Shepard story made into a Wim Wenders road movie. It is the first Mexican detective novel that reflects rural Mexican… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Picaresque literature

Title: The Buenos Aires Affair
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Manuel Puig
Original work: The Buenos Aires affair : novela policial
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785800
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This masterful and ironic detective novel concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens-Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth-all combining to make a… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Buenos Aires Quintet
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Quinteto de Buenos Aires
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 377 pp.
ISBN: 9781612190341
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho travels from Barcelona to Buenos Aires to search for his cousin who disappeared in the Argentine army's Dirty War, but soon finds that he is risking his own life by delving into the traumas of Argentina's history.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Bugler = El Corneta
Translator(s): Edward W. Hood
Author: Roberto Castillo
Publisher: University Press of America
City: Lanham, Md.
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 0761816089
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Castillo ; translated by Edward Waters Hood.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations, Romans

Title: The Butterfly Workshop
Translator(s): Wolf Erlbruch, Charles Castaldi
Author: Gioconda Belli
Original work: El taller de las mariposas
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 44 pp.
ISBN: 1933372125
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Odaer likes to think of different ways to mix species of animals and plants in his experiments. One day he combines flowers with birds to create a butterfly.
Additional Information: Responsibility: [witten by] Gioconda Belli ; [illustrated by] Wolf Erlbruch ; translated from the Spanish by Charles Castaldi.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Juvenile works

Title: The Caiman
Translator(s): Amy Brill
Author: María Eugenia Manrique
Original work: La caimana
Publisher: Amazon Crossing Kids
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 29 pp.
ISBN: 9781542031585
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Faoro the clockmaker adopts a baby caiman, he has no idea that someday their story will travel far and wide. But the town of San Fernando de Apure would never forget this kind young man and his adoring alligator, who played… read more
Literary Genre: Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works, Livres d'images

Title: The Cannibal Night
Translator(s): George Henson
Author: Luis Jorge Boone
Original work: La noche caníbal
Publisher: Alligator Press
City: Salt Lake City, UT
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 9780967565873
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is a collection of haunting and breathtaking short stories. The characters are beings oppressed by their fears, tyrannized by their weaknesses, confused by their own dreams. An aura of death and delirium hovers over their… read more

Title: The Captain of the Sleeping
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mayra Montero
Original work: El capitán de los dormidos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 181 pp.
ISBN: 0374118825
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For fifty years Andres Yasin has held a grudge against J.T. Bunker for an alleged affair with Andres' mother. Will the truth finally come out after all these years?
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Cardboard House
Translator(s): Katherine Silver, Rick London
Author: Martín Adán
Original work: La casa de carton
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 126 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219594
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The novel presents a stunning series of flashes scenes, moods, dreams, and weather as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction