Pedro Páramo

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford, forward by Gabriel García Márquez

A man promises his mother on her deathbed that he will go back to visit his father, Pedro. He goes back to the town and runs into somebody else that claims to have Pedro as his father. Then it gets weirder. It is not clear which characters are alive or dead. Some will even mention their own death. Bits of history are interspersed. There was involvement in a revolution. There are marriages, vast fortunes and estates and poverty. It is somewhat a novel of discovery of life and family in a disjointed fashion. The translation is short and easy to read. It includes an introduction and a translator's afterword. Looks like there are a lot of bits in the Spanish that would be interesting to read.