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 Valley
Translator(s): Nicolás Kanellos, Rolando Hinojosa
Author: Rolando Hinojosa
Original work: Estampas del valle
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 9781611928594
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In these vignettes set in the fictional county of Belken along the Texas-Mexico border in the early to mid-twentieth century, Rolando Hinojosa sketches a landscape of Mexican Texans and Anglo Texans living side… read more
Literary Genre: Mexican fiction, Nouvelles

Title: The Valley of the Fallen = El Valle de los Caídos
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carlos Rojas
Original work: El Valle de los Caídos
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven, CT
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 296 pp.
ISBN: 9780300217964
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Rojas re-creates the nineteenth-century corridors of power and portrays the relationship between Goya and King Fernando VII, a despot bent on establishing a cruel regime after Spain's War of Independence. Goya obliges the king's… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa
Translator(s): Jasper Reid
Author: Martín Caparrós
Original work: Valfierno
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 9780743297950
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by the infamous 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa finds the dying Marquis de Valfierno divulging to an American journalist the truth about his secret identity as a working-class Argentine youth who drew on his artistic… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans

Title: The Vanquished
Translator(s): Sidney W. Mintz
Original work: Los derrotados
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
City: Chapel Hill, NC
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 214 pp.
ISBN: 9781469650258
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This tautly written story uncovers the personal histories of three middle-aged revolutionaries as they plan to kill a U.S. general. Andreu's cool treatment of their political objectives does not obscure his compassionate… read more

Title: The Vineyard
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Author: María Dueñas
Original work: La templanza
Publisher: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 534 pp.
ISBN: 9781501124532
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) New York Times bestselling author Maria Duenas returns with The Vineyard, a magnificent story of ambition, heartbreak, and desire set in the 1860s Mexico, Cuba, and Spain--perfect for fans of Kate Morton and… read more
Literary Genre: Historical romance fiction, Historical fiction, Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: The Vineyard
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Author: María Dueñas
Original work: La templanza
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 534 pp.
ISBN: 9781501124549
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Mauro Larrea’s fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Drowning in debt and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his money on daring ploy that wins him a… read more
Literary Genre: Historical romance fiction, Historical fiction, Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: The Vineyard (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Author: María Dueñas
Original work: La templanza
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 771 pp.
ISBN: 9781432844028
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mauro Larrea's fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debt and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his money in a daring play that wins him an… read more
Literary Genre: Historical romance fiction, Historical fiction, Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: The Vintage book of Latin American stories
Translator(s): Julio Ortega, Carlos Fuentes
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Vintage Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN: 067977551X
Summary/Reviews: (Provided by publisher) Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. There is "The Handsomest Drown… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Vortex
Translator(s): John Charles Chasteen
Author: José Eustasio Rivera
Original work: La vorágine
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham, NC
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9780822370857
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction

Title: The Wake
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Margo Glantz
Original work: El rastro
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 123 pp.
ISBN: 1931896232
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nora García returns to a Mexican village that she has not seen in years to attend the funeral of her ex-husband, a famous pianist who has died of a heart attack.
Literary Genre: Musical fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Warning
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Paul Pen
Original work: El aviso
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 271 pp.
ISBN: 9781542004572
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "I don't wish to frighten you", reads the anonymous note introverted and bullied eight-year-old Leo Cruz finds in his backpack. All the sender asks is that he avoid a certain spot on a certain day, or he'll die. Leo has reason to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Thrillers (fiction)

Title: The Water Rituals
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Eva García Sáenz
Original work: Los ritos del agua
Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 465 pp.
ISBN: 9781984898616
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Kraken's first girlfriend, Ana Belén Liaño, has been murdered as part of a ritual not seen for 2,600 years. She has been burned, hung, and then placed upside down in a Bronze Age cauldron. But she is not the only one. Pregnant… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: The Way Out
Translator(s): Robert Croll
Author: Ricardo Piglia
Original work: El camino de Ida
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 271 pp.
ISBN: 9781632062208
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the mid-1990s, Emilio Renzi leaves his unstable life in Argentina to take a visiting position at a prestigious university in New Jersey. Settling in for a semester of academic quietude, he is unexpectedly swept up in a secret… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Way to Paradise
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El paraíso en la otra esquina
Publisher: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 454 pp.
ISBN: 9780312424039
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A New York Times Notable Book. Flora Tristan, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Way to Paradise
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El paraíso en la otra esquina
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 373 pp.
ISBN: 0374228035
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recounts the stories of civil rights campaigner Flora Tristan and Paul Gauguin, the artist grandson who was born after her death, in a tale that follows Flora's struggles with class imbalances and her grandson's effort to escape… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Weeping Woman
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: Zoé Valdés
Original work: La mujer que llora
Publisher: Arcade Publisher
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 302 pp.
ISBN: 9781628725810
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Winner of the prestigious Azoriń Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar. A writer resembling Zoé Valdés--a Cuban exile living in Paris with her… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Biographical fiction

Title: The Weight of Temptation
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Ana María Shua
Original work: El peso de la tentación
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2012
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 187 pp.
ISBN: 9780803239777
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Dystopian fantasy, political parable, morality tale-however one reads it, this novel is first and foremost pure Ana María Shua, a work of fiction like no other and a dark pleasure to read. Shua, an Argentinian writer widely… read more

Title: The Whispering City
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: Rosa Ribas Moliné, Sabine Hofmann
Original work: Don de lenguas
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 405 pp.
ISBN: 9781605988955
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Barcelona 1952. General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History, Thrillers (fiction), Mystery fiction

Title: The Wind from the East
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Almudena Grandes
Original work: Los aires difíciles
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 536 pp.
ISBN: 1583227466
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Is a blend of two narratives set alternately in Madrid and an Andalusian town by the sea. Sara Gomes Morales, given up at birth to be raised by her wealthy godmother, is betrayed on her sixteenth birthday when she is forced to… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Wind Knows My Name
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El viento conoce mi nombre
Publisher: Ballantine Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 9780593598108
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans