Santa Evita

From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about life of the legendary Eva Peron, the famed wife of an Argentine dictator, told backwards from death to childhood. - Now a 7-part Limited Series on Hulu.

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.

"Finally, this is the novel I always wanted to read." --Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Author: Tomas Eloy Martinez
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/29/1997
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.84h x 5.34w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780679768142

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/04/1998 pg. 24
Publishers Weekly 07/21/1997

About the Author
Tomas Eloy Martinez was born in 1934 in Argentina. During the military dictatorship, he lived in exile in Venezuela where he wrote his first three books, all of which were republished in Argentina in 1983, in the first months of democracy. During a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for International Scholars, Martinez wrote The Peron Novel, which was published in 1988.