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From Ulysses to Martin Guerre, the story of the delayed return speaks to the ineffectual wish that our stories will not all end tragically. Hoping that a disappearance is only a long absence, we continue to expect miracles, less impossible in our frightened minds than the finality of an unknown death.

In the Guardian, Alberto Manguel reviews Purgatory by Tomás Eloy Martínez.