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Pedro Páramo

Juan Rulfo

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1955
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 300

A man promises his dying mother he will find his father in her home town, and arrives in a village where everyone he meets, he slowly realises, is already dead.

I came to Comala because I had been told that my father, a man named Pedro Páramo, lived there.
Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo

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