On heroes and tombs - Ernesto R Sbato

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

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

One
June day in 1955 Alejandra, last of a noble yet decaying Argentinian
dynasty, shoots her father, locks herself up with his body, and sets
fire to them both. What caused this act of insanity? Does the answer lie
with Martn, her troubled lover, Bruno, the writer who worshipped her
mother, or with her father Fernando himself, demonic creator of the
strange 'Report on the Blind'? Their lives entwine in Ernesto Sabato's
dark epic of passion, philosophy and paranoia in Buenos Aires.

'Bewitched, baroque, monumental' Newsweek