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Santa Evita

Eva Peron entered immortality on 26th July, 1952. The bizarre after-life of her embalmed body - hidden, hijacked, replicated, smuggled abroad, buried, resurrected, repatriated - echoed her equally strange life. From the story of the plain poor-trash girl who reinvented herself to become first the uncrowned queen of Argentina's masses and then their uncanonized saint, Tomas Eloy Martinez has created a mesmerizing, highly readable work of fiction.

The most powerful work of fiction to come from Latin America since One Hundred Years of Solitude

Alberto Manguel, Independent

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Details
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • ISBN: 9780552778961
  • Length: 416 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 127mm
  • Weight: 2834g
  • Price: £16.99