TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
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Translations
Title: The Naked Woman
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Armonía Etchepare LocinoOriginal work: La mujer desnuda
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: First Feminist Press edition
Number of pages: 154 pp.
ISBN: 9781936932436
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A woman's feminist awakening drives a hypocritical village to madness in rural Uruguay.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Feminist fiction, Historical, Magic realism (literature)
Title: The Nautical Chart
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-RevertePublisher: Harcourt
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 466 pp.
ISBN: 0151005346
Additional Information: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romantic suspense fiction
Title: The Nautical Chart
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-RevertePublisher: Harcourt
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 466 pp.
ISBN: 9780151005345
Summary/Reviews: (Publisher description) Coy is a Suspended Sailor without a ship. At an auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century. Tanger uses her considerable… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romantic suspense fiction
Title: The Neighborhood
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas LlosaOriginal work: Cinco esquinas
Publisher: Faber & Faber
City: London
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780571333073
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History
Title: The Neighborhood
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas LlosaOriginal work: Cinco esquinas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780374155124
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History
Title: The Neighborhood
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas LlosaOriginal work: Cinco esquinas
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9781250310361
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History
Title: The Neruda Case
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Roberto AmpueroOriginal work: El caso Neruda
Publisher: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 340 pp.
ISBN: 9781594487439
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling literary luminary. Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brule are an international… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Title: The Night Buffalo
Author: Guillermo Arriaga JordánOriginal work: El búfalo de la noche
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9780743281867
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Night Buffalo is set in Mexico City, revolving around the mysterious suicide of Gregorio, a charismatic but troubled young man who was betrayed by the two people he trusted most. The beautifully rendered narrative is driven… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Title: The Night Buffalo
Author: Guillermo Arriaga JordánOriginal work: El búfalo de la noche
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 0743281853
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer Guillermo Arriaga weaves a luminous, insightful story of love and friendship, passion and betrayal, lunacy and mental illness. Set in Mexico City, The Night Buffalo revolves around… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Title: The Night Travelers
Author: Armando Lucas CorreaOriginal work: La viajera nocturna
Publisher: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 354 pp.
ISBN: 9781501187988
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Novels, Romans
Original work: La viajera nocturna
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 527 pp.
ISBN: 9781638086055
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Darren Koolman
Author: Luis ChitarroniOriginal work: Peripecias del no : diario de una novela inconclusa
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9781564787293
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A dizzying look at the backrooms of literature, with petty squabbles, long-nurtured grudges, envied or undeserved prizes, failing publishers, and self-important critics, The No Variations is a serious game, or perhaps a frivolous… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, General info: other format available: print version:; chitarroni, luis, 1958-; peripecias del no english; no variations; first edition
Title: The No World Concerto
Translator(s): Darren Koolman, Rhett McNeil
Author: Antoni García PortaOriginal work: Concierto del no mundo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 364 pp.
ISBN: 9781564788610
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hailed as one of the top ten Spanish-language novels of the decade, The No World Concerto is a many-layered puzzle concerning an old screenwriter who has holed up in a shabby hotel in a never-named but familiar city in order to… read more
Literary Genre: General fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Erotic fiction, Romans
Title: The North Face of the Heart
Translator(s): Michael Meigs
Author: Dolores RedondoOriginal work: La cara norte del corazón
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 473 pp.
ISBN: 9781542022323
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie. And… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Mystery fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): David Coulter
Author: Eugenio Fernández GranellOriginal work: La novela del indio Tupinamba
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 205 pp.
ISBN: 9780872867468
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Picaresque novel of the Spanish Civil War written by one of the most important post-WWII members of the Surrealist Movement. Written by Galician surrealist artist and communist revolutionary E.F. Granell, The Novel of the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Political fiction, Picaresque fiction, War stories, Allegories
Title: The Nubian Prince
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Juan BonillaOriginal work: Los príncipes nubios
Publisher: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 258 pp.
ISBN: 0805077812
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A comic odyssey of a hapless hero ensnared by globalization, humanitarian aid, and the international sex trade, this story takes place in a pitiless world where the have-nots will do anything to become haves, while the privileged… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Title: The Obscene Bird of Night
Translator(s): Hardie St. Martin, Leonard Mades
Author: José DonosoOriginal work: El obsceno pájaro de la noche
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc.
City: Boston, MA
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 438 pp.
ISBN: 1567920462
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Humberto, who lives and works at a convent home for old women, loses his sanity as he becomes obsessed with black magic and his duty to protect a monstrous child.
Translator(s): H. E. Francis
Author: Norberto Luis RomeroOriginal work: El lado oculto de la noche
Publisher: Otis Books
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 93 pp.
ISBN: 9780986017384
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) I know what really happened.I read in the fat man's annals my mother's memory and my false father's words:"Watch out for the yellow amatory gloves. At times they escape from the confines of the fat man and… read more
Title: The Obstacles
Translator(s): Ezra E. Fitz
Author: Eloy Urroz KananOriginal work: Las Rémoras
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 350 pp.
ISBN: 1564784274
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One of the most remarkable books of contemporary Mexican literature, The Obstacles is the story of young writers coming of age in a world dominated entirely by their own fictions. It tells, in alternating chapters, the stories of… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction
Title: The Octopus Deception
Translator(s): Daniel Estulin
Author: Daniel Estulin Original work: Conspiración Octopus
Publisher: Trine Day
City: Walterville, OR
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 234 pp.
ISBN: 9781937584238
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this timely political thriller, CIA special agent Curtis Fitzgerald, scholar Simone Casoloro, and historian Michael Asbury, must race against the clock to find trillions of dollars worth of stolen funds to prevent global… read more
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