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The Burning Plain
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A new translation of El Llano en llamas, an iconic collection of short stories that changed the course of Mexican and Latin American literature.
Since its publication in 1953, Juan Rulfo’s The Burning Plain (El Llano en llamas) has become Mexico’s most significant and most translated collection of short fiction. Set largely in a distressed rural region of the state of Jalisco known as El Llano Grande (the burning plain of the title), the seventeen stories of this anthology trace the lives of...