


She has recently died and asked him to find his father, Pedro Páramo, in the village where she was born. The story begins with Juan Preciado narrating a trip he takes to his mother's home village of Comala. This short summary will present events more or less as they unfold in the novel, though with some synthesis of events for the sake of a more cohesive summary. Furthermore, there are several narrators, some first-person and some third-person omniscient. Much of the responsibility for crafting a chronological narrative falls to the reader. It follows a labyrinthine structure in which the past is interspersed with the present, sometimes in ways that are not clear until halfway through a section. Pedro Páramo is both a simple and very difficult work to summarize.
