On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Javier Sierra
Original work: La cena secreta
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 329 pp.
ISBN: 9780743287654
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1497 Milan, a Papal Inquisitor seeks to confirm, or deny, the messages of the "Soothsayer," who alleges that Leonardo Da Vinci is a heretic and has hidden heretical messages in his painting of The Last Supper. 
Literary Genre: Christian fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Javier Sierra
Original work: La cena secreta
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 329 pp.
ISBN: 0743287649
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message… read more
Literary Genre: Christian fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Javier Sierra
Original work: La cena secreta
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 533 pp.
ISBN: 9780739465417
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message… read more
Literary Genre: Christian fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Javier Sierra
Original work: La cena secreta
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 503 pp.
ISBN: 9780786284672
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1497 a Dominican inquisitor is sent to Milan to supervise the final phase of the painting of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Never a conformist, da Vinci creates a masterpiece that raises questions that have yet to be… read more
Literary Genre: Christian fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Roberto Arlt
Original work: Los siete locos
Publisher: New York Review of Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 249 pp.
ISBN: 9781590179147
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature, a crucial work for Julio Cortázar ("If there's one person in my country I feel close to, it's Roberto Arlt"), The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Original work: Sombra de la sombra
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
City: El Paso, TX
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 233 pp.
ISBN: 1933693002
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A motley group of men who meet to play dominoes in a 1922 Mexico City hotel bar witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast, greedy army officers… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La sombra del viento
Publisher: The Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 486 pp.
ISBN: 9780143126393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La sombra del viento
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 486 pp.
ISBN: 9780143034902
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La sombra del viento
Publisher: Subterranean Press
City: Burton, MI
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 496 pp.
ISBN: 9781596061668
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La sombra del viento
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 486 pp.
ISBN: 1594200106
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Barcelona, 1945: just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La sombra del viento
Publisher: Phoenix Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 506 pp.
ISBN: 9780752859545
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son, Daniel, one cold morning in 1945… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La sombra del viento
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 511 pp.
ISBN: 9780143126393
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Howard Curtis
Author: Luis Sepúlveda
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9781609450021
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Three old members of Chile's Socialist Liberation Army have been summoned by the anarchist known as The Shadow to carry out one last revolutionary mission. The Shadow disappears before he can meet with them, though, and now one… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Political fiction, Fiction, History
Translator(s): R. Kelly Washbourne
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Publisher: Humanoids
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 87 pp.
ISBN: 9781594650284
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Because of their love of both word and image, Alexandro Jodorowsky challenged François Boucq ("Bouncer") to a game. Jodorowsky would write dozens of short stories full of wisdom and humor, poetry and brutality, irony and beauty.… read more
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: La forma de las ruinas
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 509 pp.
ISBN: 9780735211148
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Novels, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: Diabola en el espejo
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218467
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Laura Rivera can't believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in her own living room! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger or who might have masterminded the murder, but Laura - an upper-… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Horror fiction
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Alberto Barrera
Original work: La enfermedad
Publisher: Quercus
City: London
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 151 pp.
ISBN: 9781935639268
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The fixation has its own… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Alberto Barrera
Original work: La enfermedad
Publisher: Tin House Books
City: Portland, OR
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9781935639251
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Dr. Miranda is coming to terms with a tragedy: his father has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and has only a few weeks to live. And yet the doctor--the son--finds it impossible to tell him. Ernesto Duran is convinced he is… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Title: The Siege
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El asedio
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 598 pp.
ISBN: 9781400069682
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Cádiz, 1811. The Spanish port city has been surrounded by Napoleon's army for a year. Their backs to the sea, its residents endure routine bombardments and live in constant fear of a French invasion. And now the bodies of… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Thrillers (fiction)
Title: The Siege
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El asedio
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 563 pp.
ISBN: 9780297864325
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cádiz, 1811. The Spanish port city has been surrounded by Napoleon's army for a year. Their backs to the sea, its residents endure routine bombardments and live in constant fear of a French invasion. And now the bodies of random… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), History, Historical fiction, Fiction