Winner, Fred Whitehead Award for the Best Design of a Trade Book from Texas Institute of Letters Western Books Exhibition Selection, Rounce & Coffin Club, 2003 Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of two artists-writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Josephine Sacabo.

Josephine Sacabo's photographs tell, in her words, 'the story of a woman forced to take refuge in madness as a means of protecting her inner world from the ravages of the forces around her: a cruel and tyrannical patriarchy, a church that offers no redemption, the senseless violence of revolution, death itself.' … ( more)

Margaret Sayers Peden's superb translation renders the novel as poetic and mysterious in English as it is in Spanish. Recognizing that 'Rulfo was describing a world I already knew' and feeling 'a very personal response, particularly to Susana San Juan and her dilemma,' Josephine Sacabo used Rulfo's novel as the starting point for a series of evocative photographs she calls 'The Unreachable World of Susana San Juan: Homage to Juan Rulfo.' This volume brings together Rulfo's novel and Sacabo's photographs to offer a dual artistic vision of the same unforgettable story.

In one such village of the mind, Comala, Rulfo set his classic novel Pedro P#65533 ramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed-Susana San Juan.

Pedro paramo by juan rulfo