Glencarlyn Book Club: "Pedro Páramo"
Let's talk about books at Glencarlyn Library!
Join us at the Library for a book discussion on "Pedro Páramo" by Juan Rulfo.
The Glencarlyn Book Club is held monthly at Glencarlyn Library, on the last Monday of every month. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
We are reading:
- Jan. 28: "Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen
- Feb. 25: "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead
- Mar. 25: "Invisible Women" by Caroline Criado-Perez
- Apr. 29: "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
- May 27: "Happiness Falls" by Angie Kim
- Jun. 24: "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf
- Jul. 28: "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler
- Aug. 25: "Dubliners" by James Joyce
- Sep. 29: "Pedro Páramo" by Juan Rulfo
- Oct. 27: "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
- Nov. 24: "The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich
- Dec. 15: "The English Understand Wool" by Helen DeWitt
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A limited number of reserved print copies of the selected book will be available at Glencarlyn Library circulation desk approximately one month before the book club meeting. Books are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons are also encouraged to place holds on available print or digital copies.
For more information, please call 703-228-6548.
This event is part of the library's celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
- Date:
- Monday, September 29, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- 6:45pm - 7:45pm
- Library:
- Glencarlyn Library
- Audience:
- Events for Adults Good for Adults Age 55+
- Categories:
- Book Discussion
- Calendar:
- Arlington Public Library
About the Book:
A masterpiece of the surreal, this stunning novel from Mexico depicts a man’s strange quest for his heritage. Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Páramo, whom they fled from years ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala. Comala is a town alive with whispers and shadows—a place seemingly populated only by memory and hallucinations. Built on the tyranny of the Páramo family, its barren and broken-down streets echo the voices of tormented spirits sharing the secrets of the past.
First published to both critical and popular acclaim in 1955, Pedro Páramo represented a distinct break with earlier, largely "realist" novels from Latin America. Rulfo’s entrancing mixture of vivid sensory images, violent passions, and inexplicable sorcery—a style that has come to be known as ‘magical realism”—has exerted a profound influence on subsequent Latin American writers, from Jos’ Donoso and Carlos Fuentes to Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Márquez.