Purgatory

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This is a ghost story unlike any other; in fact, 'ghost story' is entirely inadequate a description for this densely woven, occasionally cryptic, occasionally virtuosic novel ... Thomas Eloy Martinez was hailed on his death in 2010 as one of Argentina's most innovative writers. Recalling Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Paul Auster, this novel - elusive and resonant, satirical, surreal and moving - seems a fitting last testament Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail Limpidly translated by Frank Wynne ... a compassionate novel about the power of chimeras - of what we chose to see, of what we can bear to see - and the way grief clots when it is unsolved Simon Willis, Economist The posthumous publication of Purgatory shows a writer at the height of his craft, and is a fitting conclusion to the work of one of Latin America's most remarkable novelists Alberto Manguel, Guardian [A] moving exploration of the intangible nature of truth Siobhan Murphy, Metro [A] haunting and surreal depiction of the military dictatorship that gripped Argentina in the late 1970s ... Read more Purgatory