Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo"A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.
As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure of Pedro Páramo - lover, overlord, murderer.
Rulfo's extraordinary mix of sensory images, violent passions and unfathomable mysteries has been a profound influence on a whole generation of Latin American writers including Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez. To read Pedro Páramo today is as overwhelming an experience as when it was first published in Mexico nearly fifty years ago."
Genres: Fiction
I am probably missing something here. This book is considered to be a work of “magic realism” and it has influenced Gabriel García Marquez to write “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. However, I did not quite like it, except for the beginning part.
You can read more about the book in Independent.
