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In Juan Rulfo's 1955 novel Pedro Paramo, Juan Preciado honors his dying mother's wish to find his father, Pedro Paramo, in her hometown of Comala. Arriving there, he finds a ghost town filled with spectral inhabitants and learns that his father has long been dead. As Juan navigates the haunted landscape, he unravels the dark history of Pedro Paramo, a tyrant who once terrorized the town. The novel contains portrayals of rape, domestic violence, and death by suicide throughout.