About the Book: Purgatory
Simon Cardoso has been dead for thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, finds
him in a New Jersey diner. Testimonies confirmed that Simon had been one of the
thousands of victims of Argentinas 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 Martinez masterfully peels away layer
upon layer of history - both personal and political. And just as Simons
disappearance comes to represent the thousands of disappearances that were such
a common occurrence during the dictatorship, so Emilias refusal to accept his
death mirrors the