On Heroes and Tombs

Ernesto Sábato


Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
4.25 · 24 ratings · 480 pages · Published: 1961

On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sábato
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 dark world of passion, philosophy and paranoia.

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