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 Skin of the Sky
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: La piel del cielo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 0374265755
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Skin of the Sky is the story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant and troubled astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother, brothers,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Skin of the Sky
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: La piel del cielo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780374265755
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Skin of the Sky is the story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant and troubled astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Skin of the Sky
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: La piel del cielo
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780826341204
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The illegitimate son of a wealthy Mexico City businessman and a poor, but intelligent, peasant woman, Lorenzo is introduced to science (pasteurization and the wonders of flight) by his mother, beginning his lifelong passion. This… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Sky over Lima
Translator(s): Andrea Rosenberg
Author: Juan Gómez Bárcena
Original work: El cielo de Lima
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
City: Boston
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 275 pp.
ISBN: 9780544630055
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A retelling of a fantastical true story: two young men seduce Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jiménez with the words of an imaginary woman and inspire one of his greatest love poems. Jose Galvez and Carlos Rodriguez are poets. Or, at… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction

Title: The Sky Weeps for Me
Translator(s): Leland H. Chambers, Bruce R. McPherson
Author: Sergio Ramírez
Original work: El cielo llora por mí
Publisher: McPherson & Company
City: Kingston, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 9781620540206
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this Nicaraguan noir, Inspector Dolores Morales and Deputy Inspector Bert Dixon -- former Sandinista guerilla fighters now attached to the Narcotics Unit of the National Police -- investigate the disappearance of a young woman… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Social Cancer : A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: José Rizal
Original work: Noli me tángere
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Atascadero, CA
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 249 pp.
ISBN: 9781539807315
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, popularly known as José Rizal; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. An… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, History, Fiction, Romance fiction, Translations, Love stories, Romans

Title: The Son of Black Thursday
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Original work: El niño del jueves negro
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060532
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From Alejandro Jodorowsky - legendary director of The Holy Mountain, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, and author of Where the Bird Sings Best - comes another autobiographical tour-de-force: a mythopoetic… read more
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction

Title: The Song of the Distant Root
Author: Elizabeth Subercaseaux
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 88 pp.
ISBN: 1891270117
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Elizabeth Subercaseaux ; translation and foreword by John J. Hassett.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Allegories, Romans

Title: The Sound of Things Falling
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: El ruido de las cosas al caer
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: London
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 297 pp.
ISBN: 9781408825792
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 2009, Antonio Yammara recalls his relationship years before with Ricardo Laverde, a man with a hidden past who was killed in the days when the drug trade in Colombia was at its height, and examines its effects on everyone in… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Sound of Things Falling
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: El ruido de las cosas al caer
Publisher: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 9781594487484
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realizes that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Sound of Things Falling
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: El ruido de las cosas al caer
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 302 pp.
ISBN: 9781594632747
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young lawyer reflects on the mid-twentieth-century uprising between Pablo Escobar's drug cartel and government forces that trapped Pablo's community in a nightmarish existence and culminated in a friend's murder.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Speed of Light
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Original work: La velocidad de la luz
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 1596912146
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young would-be writer from Catalonia meets Vietnam veteran Rodney Falk at a Midwestern university in 1987, but it is only years later, when he is a successful novelist, that he begins to understand what Rodney reveals about… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Spirit of Science Fiction
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: El espíritu de la ciencia-ficción
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 196 pp.
ISBN: 9781509851928
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in Mexico in the 1970s, the novel charts the literary and romantic escapades of two Chilean aspiring writers, employing a range of genres, from epistolary novel to science fiction to satire.
Literary Genre: Novels

Title: The Spirit of Science Fiction
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: El espíritu de la ciencia-ficción
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 196 pp.
ISBN: 9780735222854
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mexico, 1970s. Jan and Remo find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world- or sacrifice themselves to it. The city tugs… read more
Literary Genre: Novels

Title: The Steps : Stories from Heaven & Inferno | Los pasos cuentos del cielo y del infierno
Translator(s): Timothy Pratt, Mireya Pérez
Author: Luz E. Macías
Original work: Los pasos : cuentos del cielo y del infierno = The steps : stories from heaven and inferno
Publisher: La Casa del Hada Editores
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 7 pp.
ISBN: 9789583315183

Title: The Sterile Seed
Translator(s): José Z. Tallet
Author: José Z. Tallet
Original work: La semilla estéril
Publisher: Cefatex International
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 371 pp.
ISBN: 9780965623285

Title: The Stories of Eva Luna
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Cuentos de Eva Luna
Publisher: Atria Paperback
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 9781501117138
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An intoxicating collection of short fiction by one of the most beloved writers of our time. Eva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Lying in bed with her European lover, refugee and… read more
Literary Genre: Picaresque fiction, Short stories

Title: The Stories of Eva Luna
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Cuentos de Eva Luna
Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 330 pp.
ISBN: 0743217187
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Collection of twenty-three short stories of Argentinean peasants and patricians, revolutionaries and tyrants, and seductresses and fortune tellers.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Picaresque fiction, Short stories

Title: The Storm
Translator(s): Andrea Rosenberg
Author: Tomás González
Original work: Temporal
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 177 pp.
ISBN: 9781939810021
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A riveting family drama set on the lush and dangerous Colombian coast. By one of Colombia's most acclaimed contemporary novelists, The Storm is an atmospheric, gripping portrait of the tensions that devastate one family. Twins… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: The Story of H
Translator(s): Valerie Miles
Author: Marina Perezagua
Original work: Yoro
Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 284 pp.
ISBN: 9780062660718
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the wake of the inferno unleashed over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, two stories unfold: that of Jim, an American soldier when the bomb dropped, and H, a mere schoolgirl at the time. Both victims of the bomb, the two cross… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery fiction, Romans