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 Valley
Translator(s): Nicolás Kanellos, Rolando Hinojosa
Author: Rolando Hinojosa
Original work: Estampas del valle
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 9781611928594
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In these vignettes set in the fictional county of Belken along the Texas-Mexico border in the early to mid-twentieth century, Rolando Hinojosa sketches a landscape of Mexican Texans and Anglo Texans living side… read more
Literary Genre: Mexican fiction, Nouvelles

Title: The Valley of the Fallen
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carlos Rojas
Original work: El Valle de los Caídos
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9780300235555
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Acclaimed translator Edith Grossman brings to English-language readers Rojas's imaginative vision of Francisco de Goya and the reverberations of his art in Fascist Spain This historical novel by one of Spain's most celebrated… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa
Translator(s): Jasper Reid
Author: Martín Caparrós
Original work: Valfierno
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 9780743297950
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by the infamous 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa finds the dying Marquis de Valfierno divulging to an American journalist the truth about his secret identity as a working-class Argentine youth who drew on his artistic… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans

Title: The Vanquished
Translator(s): Sidney W. Mintz
Original work: Los derrotados
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
City: Chapel Hill, NC
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 214 pp.
ISBN: 9781469650258
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This tautly written story uncovers the personal histories of three middle-aged revolutionaries as they plan to kill a U.S. general. Andreu's cool treatment of their political objectives does not obscure his compassionate… read more

Title: The Vineyard
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Author: María Dueñas
Original work: La templanza
Publisher: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 534 pp.
ISBN: 9781501124532
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) New York Times bestselling author Maria Duenas returns with The Vineyard, a magnificent story of ambition, heartbreak, and desire set in the 1860s Mexico, Cuba, and Spain--perfect for fans of Kate Morton and… read more
Literary Genre: Historical romance fiction, Historical fiction, Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: The Vintage book of Latin American stories
Translator(s): Julio Ortega, Carlos Fuentes
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Vintage Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN: 067977551X
Summary/Reviews: (Provided by publisher) Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. There is "The Handsomest Drown… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Wake
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Margo Glantz
Original work: El rastro
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 123 pp.
ISBN: 1931896232
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nora García returns to a Mexican village that she has not seen in years to attend the funeral of her ex-husband, a famous pianist who has died of a heart attack.
Literary Genre: Musical fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Water Rituals
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Eva García Sáenz
Original work: Los ritos del agua
Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 465 pp.
ISBN: 9781984898616
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Kraken's first girlfriend, Ana Belén Liaño, has been murdered as part of a ritual not seen for 2,600 years. She has been burned, hung, and then placed upside down in a Bronze Age cauldron. But she is not the only one. Pregnant… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: The Way to Paradise
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El paraíso en la otra esquina
Publisher: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 454 pp.
ISBN: 9780312424039
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A New York Times Notable Book. Flora Tristan, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Way to Paradise
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El paraíso en la otra esquina
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 373 pp.
ISBN: 0374228035
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recounts the stories of civil rights campaigner Flora Tristan and Paul Gauguin, the artist grandson who was born after her death, in a tale that follows Flora's struggles with class imbalances and her grandson's effort to escape… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Weeping Woman
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: Zoé Valdés
Original work: La mujer que llora
Publisher: Arcade Publisher
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 302 pp.
ISBN: 9781628725810
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Winner of the prestigious Azoriń Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar. A writer resembling Zoé Valdés--a Cuban exile living in Paris with her… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Biographical fiction

Title: The Whispering City
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: Rosa Ribas Moliné, Sabine Hofmann
Original work: Don de lenguas
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 405 pp.
ISBN: 9781605988955
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Barcelona 1952. General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History, Thrillers (fiction), Mystery fiction

Title: The Wind from the East
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Almudena Grandes
Original work: Los aires difíciles
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 536 pp.
ISBN: 1583227466
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Is a blend of two narratives set alternately in Madrid and an Andalusian town by the sea. Sara Gomes Morales, given up at birth to be raised by her wealthy godmother, is betrayed on her sixteenth birthday when she is forced to… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Wind Knows My Name
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El viento conoce mi nombre
Publisher: Ballantine Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 9780593598108
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Wind Knows My Name
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El viento conoce mi nombre
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 348 pp.
ISBN: 9780593743720
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Woman from Uruguay
Translator(s): Jennifer Croft
Author: Pedro Mairal
Original work: La uruguaya
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 9781635577334
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. An advance due to him on his upcoming novel, the small fortune might mean the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction / diversity & multicultural, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Wonders
Translator(s): Lizzie Davis, Thomas Bunstead
Author: Elena Medel
Original work: Las maravillas
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
City: Chapel Hill, NC
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9781643752112
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) María moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, a caregiver, a cleaner--somehow always taking care of someone else. Two… read more
Literary Genre: Feminist fiction, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Wrong Blood
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Manuel de Lope
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 288 pp.
ISBN: 9781590513095
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the days before the Civil War, two women in the Basque Country in northern Spain conspire to commit a victimless crime.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Manuel de Lope ; translated by John Cullen.
Literary Genre: War stories, Spanish fiction -- translations into english, War fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Years with Laura Díaz
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Los años con Laura Díaz
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 516 pp.
ISBN: 0374293414
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The grandson of Laura Díaz provides the story of his grandmother, a lover of great men and "a politically committed artist on whom none of the poignant paradoxes of Mexican life have been lost.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Feminist fiction, Fiction

Title: The Years with Laura Díaz
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Los años con Laura Díaz
Publisher: Harvest
City: San Diego, CA
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 528 pp.
ISBN: 9780156007566
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters. The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Feminist fiction, Fiction