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 Illogic of Kassel
Translator(s): Anne McLean, Anna Milsom
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: Kassel no invita a la lógica
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9780811221498
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Exhibition, Exhibition catalogs, Fiction, Romans, Catalogues d'exposition

Title: The Illusions of Doctor Faustino
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Juan Valera
Original work: Ilusiones del doctor Faustino
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
City: Washington, D.C.
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 309 pp.
ISBN: 9780813218335
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Don Faustino Lopez de Mendoza, scion of an illustrious but impoverished family of the highest nobility, believes himself destined for great accomplishments in the literary world, sees himself as a poet of the first rank, and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Imagined Land
Translator(s): Charlotte Coombe
Author: Eduardo Berti
Original work: El país imaginado
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9781941920619
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With sensuous imagery and musical cadence, renowned Oulipian Eduardo Berti conjures an exquisite, star-crossed love story in pre-revolutionary China. The desires of a young girl, visited in her dreams by her grandmother's ghost,… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: The Immortal Collection : A Saga of the Ancient Family
Translator(s): Lilit Žekulin Thwaites
Author: Eva García Sáenz
Original work: La saga de los Longevos : la vieja familia
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 657 pp.
ISBN: 9781477849798
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Adriana, a brilliant young archaeologist, accepts a position at the Museum of Archaeology in her hometown of Santander, Spain, she never imagines that her new boss has lived through the history she can only study. Iago, the… read more
Literary Genre: Fantasy fiction, Historical fiction

Title: The Impostor : A True Story
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Javier Cercas
Original work: El impostor
Publisher: Vintage Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 364 pp.
ISBN: 9780525434238
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Novel about Enric Marco, a Spanish man who claimed to have been a prisoner in Nazi German concentration camps, until historian Benito Bermejo found out that his story was not true.
Literary Genre: Biographical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Spanish fiction

Title: The Impostor: A True Story
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Javier Cercas
Original work: El impostor
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 364 pp.
ISBN: 9781524732813
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Novel about Enric Marco, a Spanish man who claimed to have been a prisoner in Nazi German concentration camps, until historian Benito Bermejo found out that his story was not true.
Literary Genre: Biographical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Spanish fiction

Title: The Incompletes
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Sergio Chejfec
Original work: Los incompletos
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830034
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Now I am going to tell the story of something that happened one night years ago, and the events of the morning and afternoon that followed." The Incompletes begins with this simple promise. But to try to get at the complete… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Infatuations
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Enamoramientos
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 337 pp.
ISBN: 9780307960726
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Breakfasting daily at a Madrid café where she observes fellow patrons, María Dolz offers condolences to a widow whose husband has been shockingly murdered, an act that leads to a new relationship and disturbing insights into the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translation by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Spanish fiction -- 21st century -- translations into english, Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: The Infatuations
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Enamoramientos
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 337 pp.
ISBN: 9780307950734
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Breakfasting daily at a Madrid café where she observes fellow patrons, María Dolz offers condolences to a widow whose husband has been shockingly murdered, an act that leads to a new relationship and disturbing insights into… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Spanish fiction -- 21st century -- translations into english, Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: The Infinite Plan
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El plan infinito
Publisher: HarperPerennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 382 pp.
ISBN: 9780060924980
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Isabel Allende’s first novel to be set in the United States and to portray American characters, The Infinite Plan is a vivid tale of one man’s search for love, and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of… read more

Title: The Infinite Plan
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El plan infinito
Publisher: Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 382 pp.
ISBN: 9780060924980
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of Gregory Reeves's journey from childhood to middle age and long-sought peace and happiness. Gregory's journey is marked by the contending philosophies of his mother's Bahai faith; his father's personally revealed,… read more

Title: The Informers
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Los informantes
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 1594488789
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who escaped to… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Informers
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Los informantes
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 9781594488788
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carlos Rojas
Original work: El ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven, CT
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9780300195286
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Carlos Rojas's imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, General info: national bibliography no: gbc3a4358 other format available: print version:; rojas, carlos, 1928-; ingenioso hidalgo y poeta federico garcía lorca asciende a los, Infiernos english; ingenious gentleman and poet federico garcía lorca ascends to hell; new haven : yale university press, ©2013

Title: The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, N.Y.
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1023 pp.
ISBN: 0140448047
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalry romances that he determines to turn knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; translated by John Rutherford ; with an introduction by Roberto González Echevarría.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: The Initials of the Earth
Translator(s): Kathleen Ross
Author: Jesús Díaz
Original work: Las iniciales de la tierra
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham, NC
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 430 pp.
ISBN: 0822338297
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Many critics consider The Initials of the Earth to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker Jess Daz. Born in Havana in 1941, Daz was a witness to the Revolution… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Political fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Insatiable Spider Man
Translator(s): John King
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Original work: El insaciable hombre araña
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9780786716654
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pedro Juan's adventures with various women feature a kind of modulated macho: he's not particularly interested in any of them other than physically, especially wife Julia, but he's very good at articulating his boredom and their… read more

Title: The Insufferable Gaucho
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: El gaucho insufrible
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 9780811220538
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contains five short stories and two essays by Chilean author Roberto Bolańo.
Literary Genre: Translations

Title: The Invented Part
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Rodrigo Fresán
Original work: La parte inventada
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 552 pp.
ISBN: 9781940953564
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An aging writer, disillusioned with the state of literary culture, attempts to disappear in the most cosmically dramatic manner: traveling to the Hadron Collider, merging with the God particle, and transforming into an… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Science fiction, Fiction

Title: The Invention of Morel
Translator(s): Ruth L. C. Simms
Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares
Original work: La invención de Morel
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 1590170571
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction