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: Above the Rain
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Víctor del Árbol
Original work: Por encima de la lluvia
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 592 pp.
ISBN: 9781635429954
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the latest novel from a master of European crime fiction, past, present, and future intertwine on a breathtaking journey from Tangier in 1955 to Malmö in 2014. Miguel and Helena meet at a nursing home in Tarifa, at an age when… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Thrillers (fiction)

Title: Abrupt Mutations
Translator(s): Priscilla Hunter
Author: Enrique Luis Revol
Original work: Mutaciones bruscas
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 305 pp.
ISBN: 9781628972313
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Abrupt Mutations leads the reader on a humorous, meandering tour of 1960s Megalopolis, at the heart of which is a hotly anticipated gathering of the city's culturati at the home of O Jango, a Brazilian billionaire and aesthete… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Fantasy fiction, Fiction

Title: Abyss
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Pilar Quintana
Original work: Los abismos
Publisher: World Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9781642861228
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction, Novels, Bildungsromans, Romans

Title: Acid Test
Translator(s): Mark Fried
Author: Élmer Mendoza
Original work: La prueba del ácido
Publisher: MacLehose Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 240 pp.
ISBN: 9781681442891
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is found by the side of a dusty road, detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra had no shortage of… read more

Title: Adam in Eden
Translator(s): E. Shaskan Bumas, Alejandro Branger
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Adán en Edén
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 201 pp.
ISBN: 9781564787965
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A respected Mexican businessman finds his idyllic life crumbling in the face of his wife's infidelity with a corrupt director of national security, his brother-in-law's worship of a child preacher, and his mistress' break with… read more
Literary Genre: Legal fiction, Legal fiction (literature), Fiction, Humorous fiction, Romans judiciaires

Title: Adam's Secret
Translator(s): Diane Stockwell
Author: Guillermo Ferrara
Original work: El secreto de Adán
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 346 pp.
ISBN: 9781612185613
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A passionate novel that unite the activation of DNA, the mystery of sexual alchemy, the Atlantis, Earth's ascent as forecasted by the 2010 Mayan prophesy, cover-up conspiracies between the secret government and the Catholic… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Adios Hemingway
Translator(s): John King
Author: Leonardo Padura
Original work: Adiós, Hemingway
Publisher: Canongate
City: London
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9781841955414
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a detective story set against the backdrop of Hemingway's Cuba, the discovery of the skeletal remains of the victim of a forty-year-old murder on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, draws ex-cop Mario Conte back into the… read more

Title: Adios Muchachos
Author: Daniel Chavarría
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 1888451165
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Fiction. Latin/Latina Studies. In Havana, Cuba, a beautiful young woman rides a bicycle through the city streets to lure men into her "services". Desperate to escape her dead-end life in a city plagued with scarcity, the luscious… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Daniel Chavarría ; translation by Carlos Lopez.
Literary Genre: Picaresque literature, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Romans

Title: Ado's Plot of Land
Translator(s): Priscilla Gac-Artigas
Author: Gustavo Gac-Artigas
Original work: El solar de Ado
Publisher: Ediciones Nuevo Espacio
City: Fair Haven, NJ
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 202 pp.
ISBN: 1930879326

Title: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Translator(s): Charles Jarvis
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: General Books
City: Memphis, TN
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 330 pp.
ISBN: 9781459027978
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: Affections
Translator(s): Sophie Hughes
Author: Rodrigo Hasbún
Original work: Los afectos
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9781501154799
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Biographical fiction, Political fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Affections
Translator(s): Sophie Hughes
Author: Rodrigo Hasbún
Original work: Los afectos
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9781501154805
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly after the end of… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Biographical fiction, Political fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Afro-Puerto Ricans in the Short Story : An Anthology
Translator(s): Victor C. Simpson
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: P. Lang
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9780820478753
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This anthology is the first of its kind on Puerto Rican literature. The comprehensive introduction traces the history of the representation of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the short story, paying special attention to circumstances… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: After the Bombs
Translator(s): Asa Zatz
Author: Arturo Arias
Original work: Después de las bombas
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 177 pp.
ISBN: 9780915306893
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A coming of age story that holds a mirror up to the modern history of Guatemala - a funhouse mirror of richly inventive and farcical black comedy which provides a better description of life in that country than any history book… read more

Title: After the Winter
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Original work: Después del invierno
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895255
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Le Monde Claudio's apartment faces a wall. Rising from bed, he sets his feet on the floor at the same time, to ground himself. Cecilia sits at her window, contemplating a cemetery, the radio her best companion. In parallel and… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Romans

Title: After-Dinner Conversation : The Diary of a Decadent
Translator(s): R. Kelly Washbourne
Author: José Asunción Silva
Original work: De sobremesa
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 9780292709799
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, Jose Asuncion Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de siecle novels and… read more

Title: Afternoon of the Dinosaur
Translator(s): Robert S. Rudder, Gloria Chacón de Arjona
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: La tarde del dinosaurio
Publisher: Svenson Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9780615955636
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Afternoon of the Dinosaur, by Cristina Peri Rossi, one of the most important Spanish writers of our time, was first published in 1976. Due to censorship in Spain under Franco, it was initially distributed only in Latin America… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: Against the Inquisition
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Marcos Aguinis
Original work: La gesta del marrano
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 617 pp.
ISBN: 9781503949263
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Born in sixteenth-century Argentina, Francisco Maldonado da Silva is nine years old when he sees his father, Don Diego, arrested one harrowing afternoon because of his beliefs. Raised in a family practicing its Jewish faith in… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Argentine fiction

Title: Against the Wall : Stories
Translator(s): Nicolás Kanellos
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 9781558859258
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the prologue to this inventive collection, the exhausted protagonist finally reaches the doors to paradise after an arduous journey, but the longed-for entrance doesn't have a handle or keyhole and there's no bell or intercom… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Albina and the Dog-men : A Fantastical Novel
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Original work: Albina y los hombres-perro
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060693
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire appears as a dangerous and generative force that mutates and transforms,… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Psychological fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fiction