The Burning Plain and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. Stories like "Tell Them Not To Kill Me!" chronicle the dark times experienced by many Mexicans during the crimes and upheaval of the Mexican Revolution. Many of Rulfo's stories deal with the violence and lawlessness of the revolution. His famous story "You Don't Hear the Dogs Barking" follows a man carrying his estranged grown-up son in search of a doctor after the younger man is wounded in combat.
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