Pedro Paramo tells the story of Juan Preciado returning to the village of his mother's birth as part of her dying wish. She wants Juan's father, Pedro Paramo, to pay for abandoning his family. What follows is a brilliant journey with echoes of Dante and plenty of magical realism. The narrative is complex; Pedro Paramo is one of those novels that doesn't reveal everything on the first read. The story is interesting, interspersing a number of different viewpoints along with Juan's POV. 
 Those viewpoints, however, are both a good and bad thing: readers who aren't devoting their full attention to this novel will absolutely miss details and important points. Though it's not difficult to read, there are a lot of nuances in the text and POVs change with almost no notice. 
 Very quotable, Pedro Paramo is a great piece of literary fiction.