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On Heroes And Tombs Author: Ernesto Sabato

ISBN: 9780141985862 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 480 Published: 6 July 2017 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 13.5 x 2.8 Description: 'I can feel the passage of time, as though it were coursing through my veins, along with my blood'

One June day in 1955 Alejandra, last of a noble yet decaying Argentinian dynasty, shoots her father, locks herself up with his body, and sets fire to them both. What caused this act of insanity? Does the answer lie with Martín, her troubled lover, Bruno, the writer who worshipped her mother, or with her father Fernando himself, demonic creator of the strange 'Report on the Blind'? Their lives entwine in Ernesto Sabato's dark epic of passion, philosophy and paranoia in Buenos Aires.

About the Author

Ernesto Sabato was born in Buenos Aires in 1911. He has published three novels - The Tunnel, On Heroes and Tombs and Abaddon el Exterminador, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger - and many volumes of essays. His work has been highly praised by both Albert Camus and Thomas Mann. In 1985 he won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (equivalent ot the Nobel Prize for literature in Hispanic languages) 'for four decades of literary endeavour'.

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