On Heroes and Tombs
Ernesto Sabato
On Heroes and Tombs
Ernesto Sabato
Sabato’s masterpiece of obsessive love and murder in 1950s Buenos Aires, new to Penguin Modern Classics
Sabato’s dark, philosophical novel is woven around a violent crime committed by Alejandra, the daughter of a prominent Argentinian family. Alejandra’s act entwines the lives of three men- her father, Fernanda Vidal, a man who believes himself hunted by a secret organization of the blind, her troubled lover, Martin and Bruno, a writer who loved her mother. Exploring the tumult of Buenos Aires in the 1950s, On Heroes and Tombs leads its reader into a world of passion, philosophy and paranoia.
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