On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Author: Andrea Maluenda de Amosson
Original work: Cuentos encaderados
Publisher: Floricanto Press
City: Moorpark, CA
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781981336685
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Told from the hips-Cuentos encaderados is a Spanish/English bilingual collection of short stories that feature strong women. Their solid "hips" help them endure and overcome a variety of physical and emotional challenges. These… read more
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Tomás Nevinson
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
City: London
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 640 pp.
ISBN: 9780241568620
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tomas Nevinson has left the secret service and returned to his old job working in the British Embassy in Madrid. Assumed dead by his wife Berta, Tomas attempts to resume his old life and heal from his psychological wounds. But… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Fiction, Novels, Spy fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Tomás Nevinson
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 640 pp.
ISBN: 9780593534588
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited by British intelligence. Thou shalt not kill. But, as our narrator admits, "Killing is not so extreme or so difficult… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Fiction, Novels, Spy fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Romans
Title: Tomb Song
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Julián Herbert
Original work: Canción de tumba
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9781555977993
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sitting at the bedside of his mother as she is dying from leukemia in a hospital in northern Mexico, Julián is immersed in memories of his unstable boyhood and youth. Guadalupe was a prostitute, and Julián spent his childhood… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction, Translations
Title: Tomb Song
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Julián Herbert
Original work: Canción de tumba
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9781555977993
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sitting at the bedside of his mother as she is dying from leukemia in a hospital in northern Mexico, Julián is immersed in memories of his unstable boyhood and youth. Guadalupe was a prostitute, and Julián spent his childhood… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction, Translations
Title: Tomochic
Author: Heriberto Frías
Original work: Tomóchic
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 208 pp.
ISBN: 0195117433
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the fictional narration of a military campaign ordered by the dictator Porfirio Diaz in October 1892, which resulted in the massacre of the village of Tomochic. The work is narrated by an eyewitness, the author, and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 313 pp.
ISBN: 0811214826
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "No one ever suspects, " begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms ..." Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 310 pp.
ISBN: 9780307950758
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Marta, the woman with whom he was about to begin an affair, suddenly dies in his arms, Víctor first considers walking away but is unable to resist delving into Marta's dark secrets.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Author: Evelio Rosero
Original work: Toño ciruelo
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 227 pp.
ISBN: 9780811228817
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Visited by his friend (a kind of Colombian Rasputin) seemingly at the verge of death, the writer, Eri, looks back on the arc of both of their lives. Unique in both its tone and its structure, the novel takes us from their student… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 0486434303
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The 1889 novella Torquemada at the Stake focuses on a character who had appeared in previous works by Galdós (and who would reappear in three subsequent novels). Named after the infamous Grand Inquisitor of the fifteenth… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Title: Trafalgar
Translator(s): Amalia Gladhart
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Original work: Trafalgar
Publisher: Small Beer Press
City: Easthampton, MA
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9781618730336
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nobody knows if Trafalgar Medrano actually travels to the stars, but whenever he is in town he stretches his stories out over at least seven coffees and everyone knows he is the best storyteller in town.
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Science fiction
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Osvaldo Fernández Gordián
Publisher: iUniverse
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 186 pp.
ISBN: 1450229077
Title: Trash
Translator(s): John Pluecker
Author: Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny
Original work: Basura
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 222 pp.
ISBN: 9781646052202
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Trash interweaves the voices of three women with connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny's English-language debut shows the complexities of survival and joy, love and violence for… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels
Author: Andrés Neuman
Original work: El viajero del siglo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 564 pp.
ISBN: 9780374119393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans
Author: Andrés Neuman
Original work: El viajero del siglo
Publisher: Pushkin
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 578 pp.
ISBN: 9781908968388
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In post-Napoleonic Germany, a traveller on his way to Dessau stops off for a night in the mysterious city of Wandernburg. He intends to move on the following day, but the town begins to ensnare him with its strange, shifting… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans
Title: Tristana
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Original work: Tristana
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 9781590177655
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Don Lope is a Don Juan, an aging but still effective predator on the opposite sex. He is also charming and generous, unhesitatingly contributing the better part of his fortune to pay off a friend's debts, kindly… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Peter Lownds
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Original work: Animal tropical
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 308 pp.
ISBN: 0786714999
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pedru Juan paints in his crumbling Havana apartment, beset by a growing sense of melancholy as he observes the lives of the hustlers, hipsters, and hookers in the city below. He is pursued by Gloria, a proud and sophisticated… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Patricia J. Duncan
Author: David Toscana
Original work: Estación Tula
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 0312205384
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The novel is three stories in one: the story of Juan Capistrán, an orphan destined to live a quixotic life in search of adventure and heroism; the life of Froylán Gómez, a man who will forever be in love with the fantasy of a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: David Toscano ; translated from the Spanish by Patricia J. Duncan.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Patricia J. Duncan
Author: David Toscana
Original work: Estación Tula
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9780312270971
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) After a hurricane smashes through the Mexican town of Tula, the narrator's friend is missing--seemingly carried off by the storm--but when his car turns up, filled with his papers, the disappeared man's wife is convinced that… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Roger F. Fidler, Ada Fidler
Author: Luis Abelardo Nuñez
Original work: El regalo de Tungula
Publisher: FidlerHouse
City: Columbia, MO
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 85 pp.
ISBN: 9781695363243
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tungula's Gift is the last short story written by Abelardo, one of Latin America's most revered composers and writers. It also is the first of his tales to be translated into English. In Tungula's Gift, Abelardo blends his… read more
Literary Genre: Biography, Biographies, Fiction