Pedro Paramo
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SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM
"One of the best novels in Hispanic literature, and in literature as a whole.” —Jorge Luis Borges
The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez
A masterpiece of the…Why read it?
1 author picked Pedro Paramo as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I first read this remarkable, surreal tale many years ago. Recently, a new translation by Douglas Weatherford came out and, to my astonishment, proved revelatory. In it, a man searches for his dead father. Time is not linear. It’s hard to tell the living from the dead. In this haunting tale, the living haunt the dead as much or more than the other way around.
The book originally deepened my understanding of what novels can do. This translation expanded the remarkable, dream-like experience.
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