The Tunnel
$31.22
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
6 May 2011
Summary
Sabato’s wonderful noir detective novel with a new introduction by Colm Toibin in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time.
Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell. Obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141194547 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141194545 |
| Author: | Ernesto Sabato |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 6 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 126g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
‘An existentialist classic … Retains a chilling, memorable power’
‘An existentialist classic … Retains a chilling, memorable power’ * The New York Times Book Review *
‘Sabato captures the intensity of passions run into uncharted passages where love promises not tranquillity, but danger’ * Los Angeles Times *
Heralded by Albert Camus and Thomas Mann and widely translated, “The Tunnel” is the brief, obsessive, sometimes delirious confession of a convicted murderer. – Robert Coover * New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Ernesto Sabato
Ernesto Sabato (b. June 24, 1911) was born in Rojas, a small town in Buenos Aires Province. He read physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, attended the Sorbonne in Paris, and worked at the Curie Institute. After World War II, he lost faith in science and began writing fiction.
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