On Heroes and Tombs

Translated by Helen R. Lane. First (US) edition. (Not published in the UK until 1990, as a PBO.) 479pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Jacket rubbed to spine ends and corner tips with some tiny nicks to spine ends. A near fine copy. *** Ernesto Sabato (1911-2011) was an Argentine writer and essayist, who published only three novels during his long life; all three are highly regarded. On Heroes and Tombs was his second novel; originally published in Argentina in 1961. Part of the Latin American ‘boom’ of the 1960s.