Purgatory

Purgatorio is Martínez''s most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina''s history since 1973. It begins, ''Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.'' Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, had vanished during one of their trips to map an un...