TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
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Translations
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 Novices of Lerna
Translator(s): Jordan Landsman
Author: Ángel BonominiOriginal work: Todos parecían soñar
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Berkely, CA
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 159 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492853
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A forgotten masterpiece by an enigmatic master of Argentine fantastic literature. When unambitious scholar Ramón Beltra receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories
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.
Title: The Obscene Bird of Night
Author: José DonosoOriginal work: El obsceno pájaro de la noche
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Number of pages: 477 pp.
ISBN: 9780811232227
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Deep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of a crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of ancient witches who are bent on transforming him, bit by… read more
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
Title: The Old Gringo
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos FuentesOriginal work: Gringo viejo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 0374530521
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American author, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers - particularly his encounter with one of Villa's… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, History
Title: The Old Gringo
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos FuentesOriginal work: Gringo viejo
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 9780374525224
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The celebrated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disapeared in Mexico during its civil war. In this brilliant novel, Carlos Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among Pancho Villa's troops and dramatizes… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, History
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Luis SepúlvedaOriginal work: Un viejo que leía novelas de amor
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9780063349018
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel about an old man living in the Ecuadoran jungle who is reluctantly called in to lead the hunt for an protective mother ocelet who's on a bloody rampage through the village.
Title: The One Before
Translator(s): Roanne L. Kantor
Author: Juan José SaerOriginal work: La mayor
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824788
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of a series of short pieces with two novellas, treating many of the same characters.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels
Translator(s): Ilan Stavans
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, IL
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 196 pp.
ISBN: 9780810124608
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Haunting and enigmatic, these nine loosely connected stories are evidence of the growing field of Jewish-Latin American fiction. 'A Heaven Without Crows,' structured as a letter from Kafka to his friend Max Brod, details the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: The Other Son of God
Translator(s): Henry J. Richards
Author: Nelson Estupiñán BassOriginal work: Al norte de Dios
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: North Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 141 pp.
ISBN: 9781480256200
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The Other Son of God is the English version of Al norte de Dios (1994), the tenth novel by the renowned Ecuadorian writer, Nelson Estupinan Bass (1912-2002). The author situates the work within the realm of the fantastic, a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Nelson Estupiñán Bass ; translated by Henry J. Richards.
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Margaret Randall
Author: Soleida Ríos Original work: El retrato ovalado
Publisher: Wings Press
City: San Antonio, TX
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 202 pp.
ISBN: 9781609405571
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Editor Soleida Ríos set a difficult task for herself and nearly three dozen other Cuban women writers, artists, and thinkers. She asked each to "choose a mask. With it she spins her story so that her own image appears in the… read more
Title: The Oxford Brotherhood
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Guillermo MartínezOriginal work: Los crímenes de Alicia
Publisher: Abacus
City: London
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 9780349144122
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself -- and not for the first time - drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes. When Kristen, a researcher hired by… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction
Title: The Oxford Brotherhood
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Guillermo MartínezOriginal work: Los crímenes de Alicia
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 9781643138770
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes. When Kristen, a researcher hired by the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood,… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction
Title: The Oxford Murders
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Guillermo MartínezOriginal work: Crímenes imperceptibles
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 1596921501
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A paperback sensation in Argentina, Spain, and the United Kingdom, The Oxford Murders has been hailed as "a remarkable feat" (Time Out London) and its author as "one of Argentina's most distinctive voices" (The Times Literary… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Title: The Oxford Murders
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Guillermo MartínezOriginal work: Crímenes imperceptibles
Publisher: Penguin Group
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 9780143037965
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It begins on a summer day in Oxford, when a young Argentine graduate student finds his landlady-an elderly woman who helped crack the Enigma Code during World War II -murdered in cold blood. Meanwhile, a renowned Oxford logician… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction© 2026 - Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos