Pedro Páramo (pocket edition)

"The most acclaimed novel in Mexican literature in paperback edition.

Pedro Páramo is the first of two books published in Juan Rulfo's lifetime. The simple plot concerns the promise made by a son to his dying mother, who asks him to search for his father, Pedro Páramo, a legendary villain and murderer. Juan Preciado, the son, encounters not people, but corpses filled with memories, who tell him of his father's relentless cruelty. Shame is what Juan feels. Allegorically, it is wounded Mexico crying out its wounds and its revolutions, through a dry and empty village where only the dead survive to narrate the horrors of history.

Fantastic realism as we know it today would not have existed without Pedro Páramo . From this source drew great authors, such as Colombian Gabriel García Márquez and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, who also narrated Latin American odysseys.