About the Author

Ernesto Sabato (b. June 24, 1911) was born in Rojas, a small town in Buenos Aires Province. He read physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, attended the Sorbonne in Paris, and worked at the Curie Institute. After World War II, he lost faith in science and began writing fiction. Margaret Sayers Peden is Professor of Spanish American Literature at the University of Missouri. One of the leading translators of her time, Peden has translated more than 40 books and has won numerous prizes and grants.

Reviews

'An existentialist classic ... Retains a chilling, memorable power'
*The New York Times Book Review*

'Sabato captures the intensity of passions run into uncharted passages where love promises not tranquillity, but danger'
*Los Angeles Times*

Heralded by Albert Camus and Thomas Mann and widely translated, ''The Tunnel'' is the brief, obsessive, sometimes delirious confession of a convicted murderer.
*New York Times Book Review*