“Greetings From a Zombie Nation” by Eric J. Mota, translated by Lawrence Schimel (Terra Nova: An Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Science Fiction, 2013)

Mota’s engrossing story about a mysterious alien zombie virus and the zombification of Cuba is horrifying but also extremely believable.

 

 

 

 

Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya, translated by Jessica Powell (Mandel-Vilar Press, 2016)

This is a book whose main character is a self-professed “zombie,” but it is also a work of simultaneously free-wheeling complexity and carefully-plotted exploration of the intersection of the human mind, body, and soul.

 

 

 

 

Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre, translated by Kaiama L. Glover (Akashic Books, 2017)

Combines magic, fantasy, eroticism, and delirious humor to explore universal questions of race and sexuality.

 

 

 

 

 

Apocalypse Z series by Manel Loureiro, translated by Pamela Carmell (AmazonCrossing, 2012-14)

This bestselling Spanish series imagines what would happen if a zombie virus erupted on Earth and threw civilization into chaos.