Pedro Páramo

"A strange, brooding novel. . . . Great immediacy, power, and beauty." --"The Washington Post""A powerful fascination . . . vivid and haunting; the style is a triumph." --"New York Herald Tribune""When Susan Sontag, in her foreword to this book, calls Pedro Paramo 'one of the masterpieces of 20th-century world literature, ' she is not being hyperbolic. With its dense interweaving of time, its routine interaction of the living and the dead, its surreal sense of the everyday, and with simultaneous--and harmonious--coexistence of apparently incompatible realities, this brief novel by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo strides through unexplored territory with a sure and determined step. . . . Having it now in all its depth and texture is a major event for which the publisher and the translator, Margaret Sayers Peden, deserve thanks." --James Polk, "New York Times Book Review""No reader interested in the vitality of 20th century Latin American fiction can afford to miss this work." --Rockwell Gray, "Chicago Tribune""As close to perfect as a piece of writing gets." --Sheila Farr, "Seattle Weekly""A modern classic. . . . Peden's lucid translation does justice to a tale that is firmly rooted in its own culture yet so fundamentally human in its focus that it speaks across cultural borders." --"Publishers Weekly"