'A novelist of immense power ... uncompromising and original' Colm Tóibìn
'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 Martìn, 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
ISBN: | 9780141985862 |
Publication date: | 6th July 2017 |
Author: | Ernesto R Sábato |
Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 480 pages |
Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Fiction in translation Modern and Contemporary Fiction |