On Heroes and Tombs - Ernesto Sabato troubling and fascinating nations on

troubling and fascinating nations on earth

identity and time lost

Serving on the jury at a murder trial

faith and philosophy in the bracing light of modern history

and a new world seems to open up

On Heroes and Tombs - Ernesto Sabato troubling and fascinating nations onOne 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