El Llano in flames

For a writer so reserved in what hesaw into print, Juan Rulfo has had adisproportional influence on writers ofliterature in Spanish, and beyond, on a parwith Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.El Llano in flames provides a pithy andmoving expression of life in central andwestern Mexico in the decades following theRevolution. These stories have the quality ofan oral testimony to harsh years, deliveredin a spare and exquisite voice. They areamongst the best short stories ever written.This new translation marks the first timethis masterpiece of Latin American literaturebeen made available to English-languagereaders beyond North America since thebook was first published in Spanish in 1953.