by Tomás Eloy Martínez · Companhia das Letras · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788535914788
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«Purgatorio» is the novel by Tomás Eloy Martínez, published by Companhia das Letras in paperback (248 pages, in Portuguese).
After thirty years of waiting, Emilia Dupuy runs into her husband in a bar in New Jersey: Simón Cardoso, a political disappeared person of the Argentine military dictatorship, presumed dead. Simón has not aged: he looks exactly as he did when both were arrested in Tucumán. Emilia's waiting is drawn as a stay in purgatory.
Translation into Portuguese by Bernardo Ajzenberg. Fiction longlist of the BTBA (Best Translated Book Award) 2012.
For readers of historical and Latin American fiction about the Argentine dictatorship and its disappeared.
Tomás Eloy Martínez was an Argentine journalist and writer.
