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: Ripper (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Oliver Brock, Frank Wynne
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El juego de Ripper
Publisher: HarperLuxe
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 658 pp.
ISBN: 9780062298737
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian who looks… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Amateur sleuth mystery, Thrillers (fiction), Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Parodies, imitations, etc, Mystery fiction

Title: River of Sorrows
Translator(s): Mary G. Berg
Author: Libertad Demitrópulos
Original work: Río de las congojas
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 1877727881
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) River of Sorrows is set in the sixteenth century Argentina of the earliest Spanish settlements, when Juan de Garay came down the Parana River from Asuncion, Paraguay, to found the settlement of Santa Fe in 1573. After he left… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Libertad Demitrópulos ; translated by Mary G. Berg.
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Room 702
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Paloma Aínsa
Original work: Siete cero dos
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 292 pp.
ISBN: 9781503945838
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Valencia native Emma isn’t looking for love when her best pals take her out on the town for her thirty-second birthday. But after just enough cocktails at their favorite bar, the trio encounters John Davies, a British movie… read more

Title: Rosario Tijeras
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Jorge Franco Ramos
Original work: Rosario Tijeras
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 1583226095
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco Ramos' delicately balanced novel, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellin. Her very name-evoking the rosary and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Rosario Tijeras
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Jorge Franco Ramos
Original work: Rosario Tijeras
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 176 pp.
ISBN: 9781583226780
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of death with that of love." So begins Rosario Tijeras, Jorge Franco's eponymous novel of a violent, violated woman on the run in 1980s… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Ruth : The One Who Fled the Bible
Translator(s): Deborah Ann Dougherty
Author: Josefina Leyva
Original work: Rut, la que huyó de la Biblia
Publisher: University Press of the South
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 176 pp.
ISBN: 1931948585
Literary Genre: Fiction, Christian fiction

Title: Sacrifices : Stories
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
Original work: Los terneros
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781644211748
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A followup to his first novel, The Night (winner of the Rive Gauche à Paris Prize for foreign books in 2016), this collection of short stories by Venezuelan literary star Rodrigo Blanco Calderón features a taxidermist painter, a… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations

Title: Saint Manuel, Martyr
Translator(s): Marciano Guerrero
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Original work: San Manuel Bueno, mártir
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 68 pp.
ISBN: 9781494996321
Literary Genre: Fiction, Religious fiction

Title: Salt
Translator(s): Denise Kripper
Author: Adriana Riva
Original work: La sal
Publisher: Veliz Books
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 9781949776164
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) SALT follows a road trip that uncovers a family's past and who they are in the present.Ever since a childhood accident, Ema has doubted her bond with her mother, equally troubled and fascinated by her. Years later, now with… read more

Title: San Juan Noir
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Original work: San Juan noir
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9781617752964
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Puerto Rico is often portrayed as sandy beaches, casinos, luxury hotels, relaxation, and never-ending pleasure--a place that satisfies all senses and appetites. Yet the city of San Juan is much more than that. The capital of the… read more

Title: Sanctuaries of the Heart = Santuarios Del Corazón : A Novella in English and Spanish
Translator(s): Barbara Riess, Trino Sandoval
Author: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas
Original work: Sanctuaries of the Heart = Santuarios del Corazón : A Novella in English and Spanish
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 187 pp.
ISBN: 9780816524655
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Petra Leyva has begun to write a novel about the Sanctuary Movement when she hears that her widowed, womanizing father has set fire to his house in a drunken rage. Overwhelmed by family memories, Petra begins a journey of… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Sangama : A Story of the Amazon Jungle
Translator(s): Raymond A. Enstam
Author: Arturo D. Hernández
Original work: Sangama : novela de la selva amazónica
Publisher: Quaestor Press, Ltd.
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 357 pp.
ISBN: 9781514308622
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Sangama: A Story of the Amazon Jungle tells the story of a young man, Abel Barcas, entering the Peruvian Amazon in the early twentieth century to make his fortune in the then booming trade in natural rubber. He meets an older… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Adventure stories

Title: Santa : A Novel of Mexico City
Translator(s): John Charles Chasteen
Author: Federico Gamboa
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
City: Chapel Hill, NC
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1238 pp.
ISBN: 9780807899502
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the… read more

Title: Savage Theories
Translator(s): Roy Kesey
Author: Pola Oloixarac
Original work: Teorías salvajes
Publisher: Soho
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 9781616957353
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize--against… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Fiction

Title: Scales
Translator(s): Joseph Mulligan
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
City: Middletown, CT
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 168 pp.
ISBN: 9780819577238
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) First published in 1923, just before César Vallejo left Peru for France, Scales combines prose poems with short stories in a collection that exhibits all the exuberance of the author's early experimentalism. A follow-up to… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Scar
Translator(s): Adriana Nodal-Tarafa
Author: Sara Mesa
Original work: Cicatriz
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 167 pp.
ISBN: 9781943150274
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sonia meets Knut in an online literary forum and begins a long-distance relationship with him that gradually turns to obsession. Though Sonia needs to create distance when Knut becomes too absorbing, she also yearns for a less… read more
Literary Genre: Romantic suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Romance fiction, Psychological fiction, Novels, Fiction

Title: Scars
Translator(s): Steve Dolph
Author: Juan José Saer
Original work: Cicatrices
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824221
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Juan José Saer's Scars explores a crime committed by Luis Fiore, a thirty-nine-year-old laborer who shot his wife twice in the face with a shotgun; or, rather, it explores the circumstances of four characters who have… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan José Saer ; translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph.
Literary Genre: Legal fiction (literature), Fiction, Romans judiciaires

Title: Season of Ash : A Novel in Three Acts
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Jorge Volpi Escalante
Original work: No será la tierra
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 413 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824108
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jorge Volpi's international bestseller Season of Ash puts a human face on the earth-shaking events of the late twentieth century: the Chernobyl disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of Soviet communism and the rise of… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Season of the Swamp
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Yuri Herrera
Original work: La estación del pantano
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 141 pp.
ISBN: 9781644453070
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous… read more
Literary Genre: History, Biographical fiction, Alternative histories (fiction), Novels, Fiction

Title: Seasons : A Life in Tweets
Translator(s): Stefan Antonmattei
Author: Stefan Antonmattei
Original work: Temporadas : una novela en 140 tweets
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 9781495229770
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the story of a man who lived inAlabama, New York, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. A story about friendships and family,relationships, hopes and disappointments. You willfind a lot of humor and some sadness,all told with… read more