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Author Martínez, Tomás Eloy.

Title Purgatory : a novel / Tomás Eloy Martínez ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F MARTINEZ, TOMAS    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description 273 pages ; 21 cm
Note Translation of: Purgatorio.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-273).
Summary Simón Cardoso had been dead thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, spotted him at lunchtime in the lounge bar in Trudy Tuesday. So begins Purgatory. Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, vanished during a trip to map an obscure road in Argentina's back country. Later, testimonies suggested that he was one of the thousands of "subversives" arrested, tortured, and executed by the military regime. Yet Emilia, daughter of the regime's chief propagandist, has refused to accept this. She has spent her life longing for Simón to return, following elusive leads, never giving up hope. The husband who reappears to her, however, has not suffered those same years of uncertainty; for him, no time has passed at all.--From back cover.
Subject Disappeared persons -- Argentina -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Argentina -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Love stories.
Psychological fiction.
Added Author Wynne, Frank.
Added Title Purgatorio. English
ISBN 9781608197118 paperback alkaline paper
1608197115 paperback alkaline paper
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