Santa Evita
by Tomas Eloy Martinez
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Author: Tomas Eloy MartinezEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-07-29
ISBN: 0679768149
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Vintage
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Summary: 5 Stars
The product was sent to me ahead of schedule and in great condition. The book itself is very well written and interesting. I find the novel to be surprising at every turn. Tomas Eloy Martinez is a fabulous writer. If you get a chance to read the book, please do because it is definitely great to the end.
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Nothing could be stranger than the true story of Eva Peron, who began her career as a B-movie actress, won the love of a dictator and the adoration of a nation, and, in death, achieved virtual sainthood status. Out of these facts, Eloy Martinez has crafted a work of fiction that is at once tragic, savagely funny, perversely erotic, and intellectually provocative.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.
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