About the Author

Ernesto Sabato was born in Buenos Aires in 1911 and died in 2011. He published three novels--The Tunnel, On Heroes and Tombs, and Abaddon el Exterminador, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Jerusalem Prize--and many volumes of essays. In 1985, he won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize "for four decades of literary endeavor".

Reviews

Praise for Ernesto Sábato and On Heroes and Tombs "An ambitious, tapestry-type fiction."--Kirkus "Offers by way of fair exchange a rich motherlode of imagery, language and haunting scenes."--Salman Rushdie "Dr. Sábato took his place among Latin America's greatest writers, and he followed a singular literary path that distinguished him from the writers of the Latin American 'boom' of the 1960s and 1970s."--Washington Post "In 1972, the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda listed Mr. Sábato among the Latin American writers who displayed 'greater vitality and imagination than anything since the great Russian novels' of the 19th century. On Heroes and Tombs, the story of a young man trying to find his way in life in Buenos Aires, is considered his most important work of fiction. But many people also know Mr. Sábato for his work in helping Argentina heal when democracy was restored in 1983 after seven years of military dictatorship."--New York Times