Tomás Eloy Martínez
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 uncharted country road. Later testimonies had confirmed...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
En setiembre de 2001, un estudiante extranjero llega a Buenos Aires en busca de un cantor mitologico que ha devueflo al tango su pureza y desenfreno original. Lo que encuentra es algo mucho más precioso: una ciudad que le va revelando sus secretos pasados y futuros con una intensidad, una belleza y un caos que lo llevan de asombro en asombro. De manera deslumbrante, Tomás Eloy Martinez ha escrito la novela que resume el espíritu del tango, a la...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"It is 2001, and inflation is spiraling out of control in Argentina as Bruno Cadogan, an American graduate student specializing in Borges, arrives in Buenos Aires. Cadogan is on the trail of Julio Martel, an elusive tango singer rumored to be even better than Carlos Gardel, the greatest singer of the 1920s and?30s. Martel has never recorded and his strange, powerful performances, at seemingly arbitrary sites around the city, are always unannounced....
