On Heroes and Tombs

by ErnestoSabato (Author), H.R.Lane (Translator)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $8.48

  On Heroes and Tombs is the story of Alejandra, the beautiful daugter of a prominent Argentine family, and the three men whose lives are tragically entwined with hers. There is her father, Fernanda Vidal, obsessed with the blind, with evil, and most of all with Alejandra. There is Marti, her young lover, whose only redemption is his decision to let go of his love. And there is Bruno, philospoher, writer, friend to Alejandra's family, who must face his love for the mother through his relatonship with the daughter. Set against the background of the turbulent Argentine social and political upheaval of the 1950s, this is a masterwork by one of the most imaginative and original talents of the 20th century.

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $34.56

  Set in Argentina in the 1950s against a background of social and political upheaval this is the story of Alejandra, beautiful daughter of a prominent Argentinian family and the three men fatally involved in her life. Her father, her lover and her mother's lover act out, through her, their obsessions. Ernest Sabato has also written The Tunnel and Abaddon el Exterminador which won him the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger .