Pedro Paramo
by Juan Rulfo
Buy on AmazonDeserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author. In one such village of the mind, Comala, he set his classic novel Pedro Paramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed, Susana San Juan.
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"Pedro Paramo is the perfect modern novel — still looking for a translation into English that does it justice."
By the Book: Alvaro Enrigue · nytimes.com