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Pedro Páramo

Juan Rulfo · 1955 CE · Novel · Latin American · Contemporary

Juan Preciado promises his dying mother that he will go to Comala and collect what his father, Pedro Páramo, owes them. The village he reaches is empty of the living: whispers in the walls, neighbors who answer questions and are not there, the cacique's long ruin told in fragments and out of order. The short book that taught a continent how its dead speak.

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