Purgatorio

Synopsis of Purgatorio

In the winter of 1976, Simón Cardoso is detained by the military during the Argentine dictatorship and disappears without a trace. Thirty years later, his wife, Emilia Dupuy, believes she hears his voice in a New Jersey suburb, discovering with astonishment that, for him, time has stood still. This revelation triggers a desperate search that intertwines the pain of loss with a masterful reconstruction of the oppressive atmosphere and collective madness imposed by the regime.

Written by the acclaimed author Tomás Eloy Martínez, the novel explores the thin line between reality and illusion, using an austere language to portray the invisible horror of a degraded society. Through the story of this couple of cartographers, the author achieves a moving work that transcends the limits of the genre, establishing itself as a contemporary classic of Latin American literature.