Santa Evita
by Tomas Eloy Martinez
List Price:
Our Price: $8.50
You Save: $7.50 (47%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Tomas Eloy MartinezEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-07-29
ISBN: 0679768149
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Vintage
Summary of Santa Evita
From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about the legendary Eva Peron. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins.Among the great corpses of our age are Lenin, Mao Zedong and Stalin. Mao, at least, is still on view for the masses to see, some two decades after his demise. But no corpse engendered as much intrigue as that of Eva Peron. Elevated to near sainthood in Argentina after her death in 1952, her perfectly preserved corpse was seized by the Argentine Army following the ouster of her husband in 1955. By then, her corpse was the equivalent of a sacred relic, and while army officials wanted to keep it out of the hands of Peronists, they were loath to destroy the corpse for fear of the wrath that might follow. Tomas Eloy Martinez has reassembled the story of the corpse of Eve Peron in Santa Evita, and in the process, produced a riveting, rich book that not only tells the tale of one of the more bizarre sagas in the history of South American politics, but that also gets to the heart of the age-old human impulse to create myths and tell stories.
Historical Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Historical Books
Pirate Latitudes: A Novelby Michael Crichton
Harper; Published: 2009-11-24; Roughcut; Book
Best price: $2.49
Price in other shops:
The Master Butchers Singing Club: A Novelby Louise Erdrich
Harper Perennial; Published: 2004-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.83
Price in other shops:
The Last Witchfinder: A Novelby James Morrow
William Morrow; Published: 2006-03-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
Zorroby Isabel Allende
HarperAudio; Published: 2005-05-03; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $3.12
Price in other shops:
The Hot Kid: A Novelby Elmore Leonard
William Morrow; Published: 2005-05-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.89
Price in other shops:
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1)Mass Market Paperback; Book
Bones of the Hills (Conqueror, Book 3)by Conn Iggulden
Harper Collins Canada; Published: 2008; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $44.70
Marchby Geraldine Brooks
Penguin Books; Published: 2006; Paperback; Book
Emperor (Emperor 1)by Conn Iggulden
Harpercollins Pb; Published: 2003-06-07; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.80
Girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy Chevalier
Harper Collins Audio; Published: 2002-06-17; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $86.82
Similar Books and other products
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early Americaby John Putnam Demos
Vintage; Published: 1995-03-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.98
Price in other shops:
Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (Cultural Studies of the United States)by Laura Wexler
The University of North Carolina Press; Published: 2000-11-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $22.68
Price in other shops:
Biography of a Runaway Slaveby Miguel Barnet
Curbstone Books; Published: 1995-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.98
Price in other shops:
Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations (American Encounters/ Global Interactions)Duke University Press Books; Published: 1998-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $25.68
Price in other shops:
Purgatory: A Novelby Tomás Eloy Martínez
Bloomsbury USA; Published: 2011-11-22; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.49
Price in other shops:
Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueirosby Desmond Rochfort
Chronicle Books; Published: 1998-03-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $16.98
Price in other shops:
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)by Rigoberta Menchú
Verso; Published: 2010-01-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.38
Price in other shops:
The Peron Novelby Tomas Eloy Martinez
Vintage; Published: 1998-12-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peronby Nicholas Fraser, Marysa Navarro
W. W. Norton & Company; Published: 1996-10-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.49
Price in other shops:
Santa Evita/ Saint Evita (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)by Tomás Eloy Martínez
Punto De Lectura; Published: 2006-10-30; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.99