# On Heroes and Tombs

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- Book: [On Heroes and Tombs](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernesto-sabato/on-heroes-and-tombs) ([On Heroes and Tombs.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernesto-sabato/on-heroes-and-tombs.md))
- Authors: [Ernesto Sabato](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernesto-sabato)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-586-2
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2017-07-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Sabato's dark, philosophical novel is woven around a violent crime committed by Alejandra, the daughter of a prominent Argentinian family. Alejandra's act entwines the lives of three men: her father, Fernanda Vidal, a man who believes himself hunted by a secret organization of the blind, her troubled lover, Martin and Bruno, a writer who loved her mother. Exploring the tumult of Buenos Aires in the 1950s, On Heroes and Tombs leads its reader into a world of passion, philosophy and paranoia.