Mexico · Literary fiction
Pedro Páramo
Juan Preciado promises his dying mother that he will find the father he has never known. His journey takes him to Comala, where voices and memories gradually reveal the power Pedro Páramo once held over the town and the damage he left behind.
Rulfo turns a place into a chorus of unfinished lives. Land, desire and domination shape its history, while the boundary between the living and the dead grows uncertain. Short and disorienting, the novel offers an intense journey into rural Mexico through the memory of a community rather than a conventional itinerary.
The essential Mexican novel, unsurpassed and unsurpassable
Carlos Fuentes, quoted by the publisher
Memory; Land; Power; Ghosts; Screen adaptation