El Llano in flames (Paperback)

'Juan Rulfo didn't write more than three hundred pages, but they are almost as many and, I believe, as durable as those we're acquainted with from Sophocles.' - Gabriel Garcia Marquez; 'You can read Rulfo's slight but dense body of work in a couple of days, but that represents only a first step into territories that are yet to be definitively mapped. Their exploration is one of the more remarkable journeys in literature.' - The Guardian; '[Translator Stephen Beechinor] has taken to heart the landscape and mood of the collection: a realm of narrow choices, stark, arid land and crushing poverty. The parallels with Mexico and other countries today are unavoidable, while Rulfo's language still speaks powerfully out of his own experience.' - Republic of Consciousness Prize