Texas Pan-American Series: The Burning Plain and Other Stories (Paperback)

from Dreesie

The short stories in this collection--and some of them are very short, telling of just one incident--do an amazing job of evoking the landscape and climate of the region of Mexico described. It sou...

from arubabookwoman

This collection of short stories is similar stylistically to Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Paramo which I read a few years ago and loved so much that when I finished it I immediately went back to page 1...

from ursula

I feel like I say this every time I review a book of short stories, but I'll say it again anyway: I'm not much of a short story fan. I often feel like I'm left hanging at the end of a story, and no...

from bluepigeon

The stories in El Llano en Llamas are perhaps described best as "la literatura de la tierra." Some are haunting, some bizarre, and some a bit too long. Rulfo incites a desperate, sparse mood, where...

from RebecaDarklight

"El Llano en Llamas" ("The burning plain") is a collection of tales about life, poverty, treason and death. Rulfo captured with precision the harsh and raw rural life of the people of his hometown ...