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): John Cullen
Author: Eduardo A. Sacheri
Original work: Pregunta de sus ojos
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 384 pp.
ISBN: 9781590514504
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Eduardo Sacheri ; translated by John Cullen.
Literary Genre: Noir fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Eduardo A. Sacheri
Original work: El secreto de sus ojos
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 384 pp.
ISBN: 9781590517901
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Retired detective Benjamín Chaparro is still obsessed by the decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. As he revisits the case, he also recalls the beginning of his long, unrequited love for Irene… read more
Translator(s): James D. Jenkins
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Valancourt Books
City: Richmond, VA
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 205 pp.
ISBN: 9781954321960
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In "The Secret Life of Insects", a forensic entomologist tries to solve the inexplicable murder of his wife, who impossibly seems to have been killed in a forest at the same time she was asleep in bed with him. The husband in "… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: El secreto del mal
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 144 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218153
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of short fiction gathers everything the author was working on before his death, including a story about a North American journalist receiving a mysterious call and a woman's recounting of the loss of her virginity.… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: El secreto del mal
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 144 pp.
ISBN: 0330510657
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A treasury of posthumous Bolano stories.Contents:               Preliminary note -- Colonia Lindavista -- The secret of evil -- The old man of the mountain -- The colonel's son -- Scholars… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles
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): Gustavo Pellón
Author: Martín Luis Guzmán
Original work: La sombra del caudillo
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
City: Indianapolis, IN
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 9781624666278
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) La sombra del Caudillo was first published in 1929 in Spain where Guzman had fled in 1923 and settled to avoid the wrath of Obregon and called for supporting Adolfo de la Huerta's candidacy for president. With this publication of… read more
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