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 Matter of Desire
Translator(s): Lisa Carter
Author: Edmundo Paz Soldán
Original work: La materia del deseo
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston, MA
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 214 pp.
ISBN: 0618395571
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a university in upstate New York. Having become entangled in an erotically charged romance with Ashley, a beautiful red-headed… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romance fiction, Romans

Title: The Medicine Man
Translator(s): Robert S. Rudder, Gloria Chacón de Arjona
Author: Francisco Rojas González
Original work: El diosero
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA.
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 111 pp.
ISBN: 1891270079
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Medicine Man, which won first place at the 1955 Cannes film festival, is indeed a masterful and compelling narrative, always surprising the reader with a final, unexpected twist, eloquently illustrates in "The Sad Story of… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Francisco Rojas González ; translated by Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Arjona.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Short stories, Romans

Title: The Memory House
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Lucía Graves
Original work: La casa de la memoria
Publisher: Vineyard Press
City: Port Jefferson, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 240 pp.
ISBN: 9781930067172
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A crucial period in history is brought vividly to life as Graves describes the plight of two lovers who are separated when one converts to Judaism and the other leaves Spain in 1492.

Title: The Memory of Silence = Memoria del Silencio
Translator(s): Jeffrey C. Barnett
Author: Uva de Aragón
Original work: Memoria del silencio
Publisher: Cubanabooks
City: Chico, CA
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 557 pp.
ISBN: 9780982786048
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A metaphor of a nation and its Diaspora, this bilingual edition of THE MEMORY OF SILENCE/MEMORIA DEL SILENCIO transcends the Cuban reality and becomes a story of universal breadth, a triumph of love and family over distance and… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction

Title: The Merciful Women
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Federico Andahazi
Original work: Las piadosas
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 0802116744
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In the summer of 1816, Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary's sister, and Lord Byron hid themselves inside a Swiss villa, whiling away rainy afternoons with a Gothic novel writing contest. In Andahazi's reimagining, there was a fifth… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Nouvelles

Title: The Metal of the Dead
Translator(s): Anna-Marie Aldaz
Author: Concha Espina
Original work: El metal de los muertos
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg, London
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 311 pp.
ISBN: 0838755453
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Metal of the Dead denounces the deplorable living and labor conditions of the workers in the Rio Tinto copper mine and describes the events that led up to their 1917 general strike. Concha Espina spent several weeks in… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Romans

Title: The Milli Vanilli Condition : Essays on Culture in the New Millenium
Translator(s): Travis Sorenson
Author: Eduardo Espina
Original work: La condición Milli Vanilli : reflexiones de dos siglos
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 9781558858114
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) "Few times in history has the art of pretending enjoyed so much continuity and led to so few consequences as during the hinge-like period between the 20th century and the beginning of the next," Eduardo Espina asserts in this… read more
Literary Genre: Essays

Title: The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: César Aira
Original work: Las curas milagrosas del doctor Aira
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 80 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219990
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Short fiction about a doctor who has a gift for making miracles and who is not deterred by his archenemy, Dr. Actyn, who is constantly trying to prove he is a charlatan.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: The Misadventures of Don Quixote
Translator(s): Thomas A. Lathrop
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: Lingua Text, Ltd.
City: Newark, DE
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 32 pp.
ISBN: 9780942566581
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Story of a Spanish country gentleman named Don Quixote and his companion Sancho who set out to search for adventure together.Illustrated by Jack Davis.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Pedro Mairal
Original work: Salvatierra
Publisher: New Vessel Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 116 pp.
ISBN: 9781939931078
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the age of nine, Juan Salvatierra became mute following a horse riding accident. At twenty, he began secretly painting a series of long rolls of canvas in which he minutely detailed six decades of life in his village on… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Mongolian Conspiracy
Translator(s): Katherine Silvers
Author: Rafael Bernal
Original work: Complot Mongol
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9780811220668
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A gripping and hilarious 1960s Mexico City noir.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Rafael Bernal ; translated by Katherine Silver ; introduction by Francisco Goldman.
Literary Genre: Noir fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Moses Expedition
Translator(s): A. V Lebron
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: Contrato con Dios
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 386 pp.
ISBN: 9781416590644
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) After fifty years in hiding, the Nazi war criminal known as the Butcher of Spiegelgrund has finally been tracked down by Father Anthony Fowler, a CIA operative and a member of the Vatican's secret service. He wants… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gomez-Jurado ; translated by A.V. Lebron.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Adventure fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Movies of My Life
Translator(s): Ezra E. Fitz
Author: Alberto Fuguet
Original work: Las películas de mi vida
Publisher: Rayo
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 287 pp.
ISBN: 0060534621
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Beltran Soler is from Chile, a land in constant movement. A seismologist who knows more about the science of tectonic plate movement than about life, he is cocooned in a world of seismic data, scientific articles, and natural… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Mule
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Juan Eslava Galán
Original work: La mula
Publisher: Bantam Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 290 pp.
ISBN: 0553385089
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Soon to be a major motion picture, this tender, satirical, antiwar novel--now available in English for the first time--vividly captures the tedium, propaganda, and absurdity of war as it explores the joys of true friendship in a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Mule
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Juan Eslava Galán
Original work: La mula
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9780553385083
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A simple muleteer caught up in the Spanish Civil War, Juan Castro Přez struggles to make his way home, confronting unrequited love, conflicts with both sides of the war, and exploitation by an opportunistic journalist, a German… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Murmur of Bees
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Sofía Segovia
Original work: El murmullo de las abejas
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 461 pp.
ISBN: 9781542040495
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition,… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Novels, Magic realist fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Romans

Title: The Museum of Eterna's Novel : the First Good Novel
Translator(s): Margaret Schwartz
Author: Macedonio Fernández
Original work: Museo de la novela de la eterna
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824061
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Museum or Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) is a book ahead of its time. Written during the 1930s and '40s - the heyday of Argentine literary culture - Museum is in many ways an "anti-novel: It opens with more… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Macedonio Fernández ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Schwartz ; preface by Adam Thirlwell ; introduction by the translator.
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Fiction

Title: The Museum of Useless Efforts
Translator(s): Tobias Hecht
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: El museo de los esfuerzos inútiles
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 156 pp.
ISBN: 9780803287648
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite ordinary. Crafting… read more

Title: The musical brain and other stories
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: El cerebro musical
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 9780811220293
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A collection of twenty short stories features tales about oddballs, freaks, and crazy people.
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: The Mutations
Translator(s): Charlotte Whittle
Author: Jorge Comensal
Original work: Las mutaciones
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 184 pp.
ISBN: 9780374216535
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City. Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when his privileged life… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Humorous fiction, Medical fiction, Romans