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Pedro Paramo

by Juan Rulfo

  • FINISHED
  • Finished January 2025
  • First published 1955

latin america novella magical realism

A man goes to the village of Comala to find his father, Pedro Paramo, as his mother asked.   He finds a town full of voices of the dead and a picture of the father’s violent rule.