Purgatory

by Tomás Eloy Martínez

  Copyright © 2010 by Tomás Eloy Martínez

  Translation copyright © 2011 by Frank Wynne

  Translation of La Preñez by Gonzalo Rojas by John Oliver Simon

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  Published by Bloomsbury USA, New York

  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

  Martínez, Tomás Eloy.

  [Purgatorio. English]

  Purgatory / Tomas Eloy Martinez ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.

  — 1st U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  I. Wynne, Frank. II. Title.

  PQ7798.23.A692P8713 2011

  863'.64—dc22

  2011015232

  First U.S. Edition 2011

  This electronic edition published December 2011

  E-book ISBN: 978-1-60819-736-1

  www.bloomsburyusa.com