The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato.
From prison, the painter Juan Pablo Castel recounts his murder of Maria Iribarne, the woman he believed understood him. Ernesto Sabato lets obsession and paranoia shape the account of a relationship from its beginning.
The novel demands that readers distinguish a narrator's certainty from evidence. It offers a discussion of the point at which a desire to be understood becomes a refusal to recognize another person's independence.
Edition notes: The cover and Barnes & Noble paperback are the Penguin Classics edition, ISBN 9780143106531, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden, with an introduction by Colm Tóibín.
