On Heroes and Tombs - Softcover

Sabato, Ernesto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345349288 ISBN 13: 9780345349286

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1988

Synopsis

Portrays the search for a remedy to the despair caused by political repression and the struggle against a historical precedent that destroys free will in a story set in Argentina during Peron's first years

About this title

About the Author:

Ernesto Sabato was born in Buenos Aires in 1911 and died in 2011. He published three novels The Tunnel, On Heroes and Tombs, and Abaddon el Exterminador, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Jerusalem Prize and many volumes of essays. In 1985 he won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (equivalent to the Nobel Prize for literature in Hispanic languages) 'for four decades of literary endeavor.'

Review:

An ambitious, tapestry-type fiction. --Kirkus Reviews

Offers by way of fair exchange a rich motherlode of imagery, language and haunting scenes...Sabato's 13-year gestation produced a frequently brilliant book. --Salman Rushdie

Dr. Sabato took his place among Latin America s greatest writers, and he followed a singular literary path that distinguished him from the writers of the Latin American 'boom' of the 1960s and 1970s. --Washington Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0345349288
• ISBN 13: 9780345349286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448