by Tomas Eloy Martinez · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9786071101327
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«Purgatorio» is the novel by Tomás Eloy Martínez, published by Alfaguara in 2009 in paperback, in Spanish.
Emilia Dupuy loses her husband, Simón Cardoso, detained by the military in 1976. Thirty years later, in New Jersey, she thinks she hears his voice in a restaurant; he has not aged. The novel starts from that impossible encounter to reconstruct the memory of the Argentine dictatorship, its lies and the return of the past.
The novel has 291 pages. In 2012 it was nominated for the Best Translated Book Award in the fiction category.
For readers of literary and historical fiction set in Latin America, particularly in Argentina during the dictatorship.
Tomás Eloy Martínez was an Argentine journalist and writer.
