Originally published in Mexico in 1955 by Fondo de Cultura Económica

Foreword by Gabriel Garcia Márquez -- Pedro Paramo -- Translator's note by Douglas J. Weatherford

A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro ̀Pramo is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met--Pedro ̀Pramo--but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of ̀Pramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul. Although initially published to a quiet reception, Pedro ̀Pramo was soon recognized as a major novel that has served as a touchstone text for writers including Mario Vargas Llosa and Još Donoso. Now published in a new translation from the definitive Spanish edition by celebrated Rulfo scholar Douglas J. Weatherford, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel Gar̕ca ̀Mrquez, this new edition of the novel cements its place as one of the seminal literary texts of the twentieth century