Sabato's masterpiece of obsessive love and murder in 1950s Buenos Aires, new to Penguin Modern Classics.
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.
A book with some claim to be the first major set-piece in that
carnival of fictional fireworks which mesmerized Latin America
throughout the next decade. It offers a rich motherlode of imagery,
language and haunting scenes
*Salman Rushdie*
Bewitched, baroque, monumental
*Newsweek*
A novelist of immense power ... uncompromising and original
*Guardian*
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