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Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo
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NETFLIX FILM ADAPTATION RELEASE ON 6TH NOVEMBER 'The greatest novel of the 20th century you've never heard of' Telegraph With an Introduction by Gabriel Garcia Marquez A new translation by Douglas J. Weatherford
In this stunning masterpiece of the surreal, Juan Preciado sets out on a strange quest, bound by a promise to his dying mother. Embarking down a parched and dusty road, Juan goes to seek his father, Pedro Paramo, from whom they fled many years ago.
The ruined town of Comala is alive with whispers and shadows. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of desires and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the tyranny of the Paramo family. Womaniser, overlord and murderer, Juan's notorious father retains an eternal grip over Comala. Its barren and broken-down streets echo the voices of tormented spirits sharing the secrets of the past in an extraordinary chorus of sensory images, violent passions and unfathomable mysteries.
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Pedro Paramo is not only one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature but one of the most influential of the century's books - Susan SontagRulfo's moment in the English-speaking world has finally arrived. His novel's conception is of a simplicity and profundity worthy of Greek tragedy, though another way of conveying its unique effect might be to say that it is Wuthering Heights located in Mexico and written by Kafka - GuardianThis brilliant Mexican novel, written in 1955, describes a man's search for his unknown father with the haunting clarity and strange logic of a recurrent nightmare - EsquireA strange, brooding novel. . . . Great immediacy, power and beauty - Washington Post
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