This short novel, by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo in its usual attribution, is set in the dry village of Comala. A young man travels there after his mother's death to find the father he never knew, Pedro Páramo. He finds a place full of whispers, echoes and memories, where the living and the dead blur together. Through fragments of voices and time, the book builds a picture of a powerful landowner and the community he shaped. It is a haunting, influential work of Latin American fiction.