PURGATORY by Tomas Eloy Martinez ( 9781408822029 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

PURGATORY

By:

Tomas Eloy Martinez

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1408822024

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9781408822029

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Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

8 November, 2012

Pages:

288

Translated from:

Spanish

Description:

The last memorable novel by the author of The Tango Singer, one of Latin America's leading novelists until his death in January 2010.

Synopsis:

Simon Cardoso has been dead for thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, finds him in a New Jersey diner. Testimonies confirmed that Simon had been one of the thousands of victims of Argentina's military regime, executed for being a 'subversive'; yet this man is identical to the man she lost three decades ago. While skirting around the mystery, Eloy Martinez masterfully peels away layer upon layer of history - both personal and political. And just as Simon's disappearance comes to represent the thousands of disappearances that were such a common occurrence during the dictatorship, so Emilia's refusal to accept his death mirrors the country's unwillingness to face its reality. The final work of the late Martinez, Purgatory is his most moving, most autobiographical novel.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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