On Heroes and Tombs (Penguin Modern Classics)

'A novelist of immense power ... uncompromising and original' Colm Tóibín

'I can feel the passage of time, as though it were coursing through my veins, along with my blood...'

OneJune day in 1955 Alejandra, last of a noble yet decaying Argentiniandynasty, shoots her father, locks herself up with his body, and setsfire to them both. What caused this act of insanity? Does the answer liewith Martín, her troubled lover, Bruno, the writer who worshipped hermother, or with her father Fernando himself, demonic creator of thestrange 'Report on the Blind'? Their lives entwine in Ernesto Sabato'sdark epic of passion, philosophy and paranoia in Buenos Aires.

'Bewitched, baroque, monumental' Newsweek

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A novelist of immense power ... uncompromising and original