On Heroes and Tombs
Author: Sabato, Ernesto
ISBN: 9780141985862
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 480
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 40mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
ISBN: 9780141985862
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 480
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 40mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
