by Tomás Eloy Martínez · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420465135
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«Santa Evita» is the historical fiction novel by Tomás Eloy Martínez, published by Alfaguara in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
Novel that follows the fate of Eva Perón's embalmed body after her death in 1952. Between reality and fiction, it traces the twenty-six years in which the corpse, manipulated by embalmer Pedro Ara, travels through Argentina and the world while those who guard it end up disturbed. It alternates Evita's popular legend with Argentina's historical episodes.
Work originally published in 1995, within the Hispánica collection. The author, Argentine, was also a journalist and wrote «La novela de Perón»; «Santa Evita» was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 1996.
For readers of historical fiction and Latin American literature interested in the figure of Eva Perón and Peronism.
Tomás Eloy Martínez was an Argentine journalist and writer.
