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Zusatztext The author of the hugely successful Santa Evita has written another well-paced novel Informationen zum Autor Tomás Eloy Martínez was born in Argentina in 1934. During the military dictatorship, he lived in exile in Venezuela where he wrote his first three books, all of which were republished in Argentina in 1983, in the first months of democracy. He was until his death in January 2010 a professor and director of the Latin American Program at Rutgers University. He was shortlisted for the 2005 International Man Booker Prize. Klappentext Simón Cardoso has been dead for thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, finds him in a New Jersey diner. Testimonies confirmed that Simón 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 Martínez masterfully peels away layer upon layer of history - both personal and political. And just as Simón'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 Martínez, Purgatory is his most moving, most autobiographical novel. The last memorable novel by the author of The Tango Singer , one of Latin America's leading novelists until his death in January 2010. Zusammenfassung The last memorable novel by the author of The Tango Singer, one of Latin America's leading novelists until his death in January 2010.
