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: Ways of Going Home
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Formas de volver a casa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 139 pp.
ISBN: 9780374286644
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The writer son of a quiet sympathizer with the Pinochet regime reflects on the progress of his novel, in which an unnamed boy from a Chilean suburb witnesses an earthquake and meets an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alejandro Zambra ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell ; [illustrations on title and part title pages by Charlotte Strick].
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Historical fiction, Domestic fiction, Chilean fiction, Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans, Historical

Title: Weight of the Heart
Translator(s): Lilit Žekulin Thwaites
Author: Rosa Montero
Original work: El peso del corazón
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 335 pp.
ISBN: 9781503936461
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Part human and part robot, private investigator Bruna Husky has been hired to locate a stolen diamond. But as Bruna's leads start to drop dead, her case becomes about much more than a stolen gem--and much more dangerous.… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Science fiction

Title: Welcome to Miami, Doctor Leal
Translator(s): Sandra Kingery
Author: René Vázquez Díaz
Original work: De pronto el doctor Leal
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781891270529
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This endlessly engaging novel recounts the personal and political fortunes and misfortunes of Dr. Leal, a prestigious Cuban-American surgeon, who comes home to the Miami of his childhood to attend his brother's funeral. From the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: West of Babylon
Translator(s): Nasario García
Author: Eduardo Garrigues
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 308 pp.
ISBN: 9780826323408
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) First published in Spain in 1999, this adventure set in 19th-century New Mexico uses elements of the ancient Near Eastern myth of Gilgamesh to tell a violent tale of war and revenge, treasure hunting and witchcraft. Gil Gomez,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: What Comes Back
Translator(s): Robin Myers
Author: Javier Peñalosa M.
Original work: Los que regresan
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
City: Port Townsend, WA
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9781556596841
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Javier Peñalosa M.'s What Comes Back is a procession, a journey, a search for a body of water that has disappeared or gone elsewhere. Featured in separate sections, original Spanish poems and Robin Myers' English translations… read more
Literary Genre: Poetry, Translations

Title: What Goes Unsaid : A Memoir of Fathers Who Never Wdere
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Emiliano Monge
Original work: No contar todo
Publisher: Scribe
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 353 pp.
ISBN: 9781950354917
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1958, Carlos Monge McKey sneaks out of his home in the middle of the night to fake his own death. He does not return for four years. A decade later, his son, Carlos Monge Sánchez, deserts his family too, joining a guerrilla… read more

Title: What to Do
Translator(s): Priscilla Posada
Author: Pablo Katchadjian
Original work: Qué hacer
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 99 pp.
ISBN: 9781564787057
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A nameless narrator and his friend Alberto move through a constantly morphing continuum of dream-like situations while discussing philosophy, literature, and war. The impossible question of an enormous student in a lecture hall… read more
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Fiction

Title: What We Become
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El tango de la guardia vieja
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 453 pp.
ISBN: 9781476751986
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and… read more
Literary Genre: Romantic suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction

Title: What We Become
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El tango de la guardia vieja
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 453 pp.
ISBN: 9781476751993
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and… read more
Literary Genre: Romantic suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction

Title: When a Robot Decides to Die & Other Stories
Translator(s): Bradley J. Nelson
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
City: Nashville, TN
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 9780826502223
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of literary and meta-fictional short stories.Contents:                 Introduction. Dystopia is now. Part 1. Of robots and other perversions. When a robot decides to die… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: When Alligators Sing
Translator(s): Kenneth Kimball
Author: Miguel Angel Santana
Original work: Cuando cantan los lagartos
Publisher: Alligator Press
City: El Paso, TX
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 272 pp.
ISBN: 0967565812
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Set against the background of the Mexican-American border, this story is the saga of Aida, a Tarahumara Indian who meets, falls in love, and waits fifty years for the American soldier who promised to return. Miguel Santana… read more

Title: When I Was a Horse
Translator(s): Kay S. Garcia
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: TCU Press
City: Fort Worth, TX
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9780875653259
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Seventeen stories gallop, frolic, and slither across the pages of this collection of stories by Mexican author Brianda Domecq. A pet canary is caught between her nesting instinct and her desire for solitude. A jaguar serves as… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: When I Was Mortal
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Cuando fui mortal
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 0811214311
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When I Was Mortal collects a dozen stories by Javier Marias, "justly considered the most talented Spanish author alive" (Il Messaggero). Victims of mistaken identity, amateur sleuths, professional liars, eavesdroppers, assassins… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles

Title: When I Was Mortal
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Cuando fui mortal
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 9780307950789
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in When I Was Mortal. Plots turn on curious exigencies--a woman… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles

Title: When We Cease to Understand the World
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Benjamín Labatut
Original work: Un verdor terrible
Publisher: NYRB, New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781681375663
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Translations

Title: When We Cease to Understand the World
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Benjamín Labatut
Original work: Un verdor terrible
Publisher: Pushkin Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781782276142
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Translations

Title: When You Get to the Other Side
Translator(s): Cecilia Weddell
Author: Mariana Osorio Gumá
Original work: Cuando llegues al otro lado
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 300 pp.
ISBN: 9781947627611
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The journey of two young siblings crossing from Mexico to the U.S. on their own is interweaved with the story of the grandmother who raised them becoming a magical folk healer.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Magic realist fiction, Novels, Road fiction

Title: Where the Air is Clear
Translator(s): Sam Hileman
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: La región más transparente
Publisher: Hasell Street Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 375 pp.
ISBN: 9781014477910
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Story of contemporary, tumultuous Mexico City, its oppressed workers, its displaced aristocrats, its decadent international set, and its heritage of rebellion.
Literary Genre: Romans, Mexican fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Where the Air Is Clear
Translator(s): Sam Hileman
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: La región más transparente
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 373 pp.
ISBN: 1564783448
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Where the Air is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, opens with a metaphorical description of Mexico City and the challenges facing its inhabitants and quickly becomes an unsparing portrayal of the upper class. Departing from… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Mexican fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Where the Bird Sings Best
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Original work: Donde mejor canta un pájaro
Publisher: Restless Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 386 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060280
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this wildly imaginative, powerfully moving, "psychomagical" autobiography-cum-novel, Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of how his Ukrainian Jewish grandfather, his fiery wife, Teresa, and their four children moved to Chile… read more