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On Heroes and Tombs
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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On Heroes and Tombs is Sabato's masterpiece of obsessive love and murder set in 1950s Buenos Aires, now available in Penguin Modern Classics.
This dark, philosophical novel is centred around a violent crime committed by Alejandra, the daughter of a prominent Argentinian family. Alejandra's act entangles the lives of three men: her father, Fernanda Vidal, who believes he is hunted by a secret organisation of the blind; her troubled lover, Martin; and Bruno, a writer who loved her mother.
Exploring the turmoil of Buenos Aires in the 1950s, On Heroes and Tombs draws its readers into a world filled with passion, philosophy, and paranoia.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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On Heroes and Tombs is acclaimed for its mesmerising impact on Latin American literature, praised for its rich imagery and haunting scenes. Salman Rushdie highlights its pioneering role in the region's fictional landscape. Newsweek describes it as bewitching and monumental, while Colm Tóibín admires its powerful, uncompromising originality.
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ISBN: 9780141985862
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 July 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Helen Lane
- Translated by Helen Lane
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 27.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 353g
Pages: 480
About the Author
Ernesto Sabato (Author) Ernesto Sabato was born in Argentina in 1911. He earned a PhD in physics before relocating to Paris. After World War II, he lost faith in science and began writing fiction, although he would burn much of his work. His three published novels are The Tunnel (1948), his masterpiece On Heroes and Tombs (1961) and The Angel of Darkness (1974). He also led the commission investigating those who disappeared during Argentina's Dirty War of the 1970s. Sabato died in 2011, two months before his 100th birthday. Helen Lane (Translator) Helen Lane was a renowned translator of Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian literary texts into English. She was twice awarded the PEN Translation Prize.
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