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: Bitter Drink
Translator(s): Tanya Huntington Hyde
Author: F. G. Haghenbeck
Original work: Trago amargo
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 161 pp.
ISBN: 9781612183909
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Private detective Sunny Pascal is hired to babysit the cast of a movie filming in Puerto Vallarta, but when someone is shot down by a gun belonging to one of the cast members, he has to keep them out of jail while he solves the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Black Novel (With Argentines)
Translator(s): Toby Talbot
Author: Luisa Valenzuela
Original work: Novela negra con argentinos
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA.
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 2
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 1891270133
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) New York City. Three A.M. The present. A man emerges from a building, a revolver in his pocket. Upstairs, in her apartment, alone in her bed, lies a woman - an actress the man met for the first time earlier that evening. She… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Luisa Valenzuela ; translation by Toby Talbot.
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Novels, Fiction, Translations, Romans

Title: Blood and Sand
Translator(s): W. A. Gillespie
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 356 pp.
ISBN: 1417911352
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Set in the bullfighting world of Valencia, Spain, the story follows the rise and fall of Juan Gallardo, a talented but impoverished young man who becomes a famous matador. Gallardo's success brings him wealth, fame, and the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Blood and Sand
Translator(s): W. A. Gillespie
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher: Kessinger Pub.
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 356 pp.
ISBN: 9781162788944
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Blow-up, and Other Stories
Translator(s): Paul Blackburn
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Pantheon Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9780394728810
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a collection of stories that explore life's mystery, a tiger stalks a vacation home and a man discovers that in the mystery he is reading, he is the victim.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Bonsai
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Bonsái
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 83 pp.
ISBN: 9781933633626
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The tale of a young writer who falls for a woman who disappears while he is pretending to edit a book that doesn't exist, it brilliantly explores the relationship between art, love, and life. And with a beguiling form that… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction

Title: Bonsai
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Bonsái
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 83 pp.
ISBN: 9781612191683
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Two Chilean university students, Emilia and Julio, become inseparable lovers until their relationship changes and Emilia mysteriously disappears from Chile.
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction

Title: Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Original work: El libro de arena
Publisher: Penguin
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 0143105299
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of… read more
Literary Genre: Translations, Translations into english

Title: Boxwood
Translator(s): Patricia Haugaard
Author: Camilo José Cela
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217514
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Boxwood might perhaps be best described as a kind of whirlwind: a vortex of marvelous writing about folklore, traditions, superstitions, cooking, nautical disasters on the Coast of Death (ships from afar spilling cargoes of… read more
Literary Genre: World literature, Novels, Fiction, Translations, Romans

Title: Breathing Through the Wound
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Víctor del Árbol
Original work: Respirar por la herida
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 669 pp.
ISBN: 9781590518434
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Psychological fiction, Fiction, Love stories, Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Brickmakers
Translator(s): Annie McDermott
Author: Selva Almada
Original work: Ladrilleros
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 181 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450697
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinity Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Gay fiction, Social problem fiction, Romans homosexuels, Romans

Title: Bring Me The Head of Quentin Tarantino : Stories
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Julián Herbert
Original work: Tráiganme la cabeza de Quentin Tarantino
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 167 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450413
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The antic and often dire stories in Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino depict the violence and corruption that plague Mexico today, but they are also deeply ruminative and layered explorations of the narrative impulse and the… read more
Literary Genre: Black humor, Romans, Nouvelles, Short stories

Title: Brodie's Report : Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Original work: El informe de Brodie
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 126 pp.
ISBN: 9780143039259
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In "Brodie's Report," he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed… read more

Title: By Night in Chile
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Nocturno de Chile
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 130 pp.
ISBN: 0811215474
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: Caliente! : The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction
Translator(s): J.H. Blair
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Berkley Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9780425184660
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of erotic fiction from Latin American authors.Contents:                 The killing of the saints — Alex Abella ; The infinite plan — Isabel Allende ; In the name of… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Call Me Brooklyn
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Author: Eduardo Lago
Original work: Llámame Brooklyn
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 364 pp.
ISBN: 9781564788603
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Through an ingenious structure that jumps from narrator to narrator and spans decades, Call Me Brooklyn follows the life of Gal Ackerman, a Spanish orphan adopted during the Spanish Civil War and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Moving… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Miscellaneous fiction, Fiction, Friendship, Romans

Title: Call Me Cassandra
Translator(s): Anna Kushner
Author: Marcial Gala
Original work: Llámenme Casandra
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780374602017
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "A darkly magical tale of a haunted young dreamer, born in the wrong body and time, and believing himself to be a doomed prophetess from ancient Greek mythology"-- Cuba in the 1970s. Ten-year-old Rauli lives in hostile world:… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Romans

Title: Call Me Magdalena
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Alicia Steimberg
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 137 pp.
ISBN: 0803242905
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The granddaughter of Russian Jews who emigrated to Argentina, and the daughter of parents indifferent to Judaism who embrace Argentine society, a young Argentine woman is in a cultural limbo, caught between one world she cannot… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Alicia Steimberg ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: Calling All Heroes : A Manual for Taking Power
Translator(s): Gregory Nipper
Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Original work: Héroes convocados : manual para la toma del poder
Publisher: PM Press
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 9781604862058
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The euphoric idealism of grassroots reform and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this speculative novel that opens with a real historical event. On October 2, 1968, 10 days before the Summer… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction

Title: Caminos : La Odisea de Una Familia Espanola En America Despues de La Guerra Civil Espanola
Translator(s): Margaret J. Weitz
Author: Carlos B. Vega
Original work: Caminos : la odisea de una familia española en América después de la Guerra Civil Española
Publisher: Janaway
City: Santa Maria, CA
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 519 pp.
ISBN: 9781596412958
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This a novel narrating in vivid and passionate detail the life of a Spanish family in America at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. A father and a mother holding tight to three small children seeking peace, shelter, and… read more