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 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

Title: The Story of My Teeth
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Original work: La historia de mis dientes
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 195 pp.
ISBN: 9781566894098
Summary/Reviews: (Back cover) Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez Sanchez is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the 'Notorious Infamous' like Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton,… read more
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Romans, Fictional work

Title: The Storyteller
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Picador
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 0312420285
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the Publisher: At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man-that the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen Lane.
Literary Genre: Spanish literature, Translations

Title: The Strangers
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Jon Bilbao
Original work: Los extraños
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781628974553
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jon and Katharina spend the winter in Jon's childhood home on the Cantabrian coast, lonely and bored, ambivalent about their precarious freelance jobs and disconnected in their relationship. Yet the couple's routine will soon be… read more
Literary Genre: Science fiction, Magic realist fiction, Fiction

Title: The Strongest Passion
Translator(s): Clary Loisel
Author: Luis Zapata
Original work: La más fuerte pasión
Publisher: Floricanto Press
City: Mountain View, CA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780915745760
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Using only dialogue as its narrative technique, Luis Zapata recounts the story of his protagonist Santiago, a middle-aged businessman hopelessly in love with Arturo, a 19-year-old teenager, who is the son of Sarita, his best… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: The Subsidiary
Translator(s): Samuel Rutter
Author: Matías Celedón Pinto
Original work: La filial
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 9781612195445
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "This is a book written in stamps. And it works: the form perfectly emulates the gloomy atmosphere of the subsidiary and the broken emotional environment of its employees. With few words, The Subsidiary says a great deal."--La… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Experimental fiction, Psychological fiction

Title: The Sugar Cane Curtain
Translator(s): Zilia L. Laje
Author: Zilia L. Laje
Original work: La cortina de bagazo
Publisher: Guarina
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 536 pp.
ISBN: 9780964622418

Title: The Summer of Dead Toys
Translator(s): Laura McGloughlin
Author: Toni Hill
Original work: El verano de los juguetes muertos
Publisher: Black Swan
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 378 pp.
ISBN: 9780552778268
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inspector Hector Salgado is known for his violent moments. He has a murky emotional past and a runaway wife. So he is moved off his current case to investigate the story behind a young boys fall to his death from a balcony in one… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Summer of Dead Toys
Translator(s): Laura McGloughlin
Author: Toni Hill
Original work: El verano de los juguetes muertos
Publisher: Anchor Canada
City: Toronto
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 362 pp.
ISBN: 9780385678728
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) When the death of a vulnerable young witness in a case of human trafficking and voodoo causes the normally calm Police Inspector Hector Salgado to beat someone up, he is moved off the project and sent instead to investigate a… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Summer of Dead Toys : A Thriller
Translator(s): Laura McGloughlin
Author: Toni Hill
Original work: El verano de los juguetes muertos
Publisher: Crown Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9780770435875
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inspector Hector Salgado is a transplanted Argentine living in Barcelona. While working on a human trafficking case, Salgado's violent temper got the best of him and he beat a suspect within an inch of his life. Ordered on… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Summer of Dead Toys : A Thriller
Translator(s): Laura McGloughlin
Author: Toni Hill
Original work: El verano de los juguetes muertos
Publisher: Broadway Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 362 pp.
ISBN: 9780770435899
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inspector Hector Salgado is known for his violent moments. He has a murky emotional past and a runaway wife. So he is moved off his current case to investigate the story behind a young boy's fall to his death from a balcony in… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Sun of Jesús Del Monte : A Cuban Antislavery Novel
Translator(s): David Luis-Brown
Author: Andrés Avelino de Orihuela
Original work: El sol de Jesús del Monte : novela de costumbres cubanas
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
City: Charlottesville, VA
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 9780813946207
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Sun of Jesús del Monte is the only Cuban novel of its time to focus on La Escalera, or the Ladder Rebellion, a major anticolonial and slave insurrection of nineteenth-century Cuba that shook the world's wealthiest colony in… read more
Literary Genre: History, Novels, Fiction

Title: The Sun Over Breda
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El sol de Breda
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 273 pp.
ISBN: 9780399153839
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquézar.

Title: The Sun Over Breda
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El sol de Breda
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 282 pp.
ISBN: 9780452289741
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquézar/

Title: The Surprising Adventures of Balthazar
Translator(s): Christine Cervenak, Alejandra Mendez
Author: Claudio Orrego Vicuña
Original work: Las sorprendentes memorias de Baltazar
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
City: Scranton, PA
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 82 pp.
ISBN: 9781589662186
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recounts the experiences of Baltazar, a polar bear of wisdom and humor, after he is captured by hunters and confined in an urban zoo, in a satiric novel orginally written shortly after the 1973 Chilean coup.

Title: The Swiss Nurse
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: La maternidad de Elna
Publisher: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 477 pp.
ISBN: 9798885790796
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on the true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Elisabeth Eidenbenz left Switzerland in 1937 to aid children orphaned during… read more
Literary Genre: Biographical fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Novels

Title: The Swiss Nurse
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: La maternidad de Elna
Publisher: Harper Muse
City: Nashville, TN
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 336 pp.
ISBN: 9781400236053
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and WWII.
Literary Genre: Biographical fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Novels

Title: The Table Dancer's Tale
Translator(s): Sabina C. Becker
Author: Lupita Dominguez
Original work: Historias del table dance
Publisher: Editorial Mazatlan
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 9781937799199
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With stories collected through years of work as a table dancer, these true tales uncover a world of night clubs filled with housewives, mothers, students, drug addicts, minors, and illegal aliens working as dancers. The stories… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Taiga Syndrome
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine, Aviva Kana
Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
Original work: El mal de la taiga
Publisher: And Other Stories
City: High Wycombe
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781911508687
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction