An edition of Santa Evita (1995)

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An edition of Santa Evita (1995)

Santa Evita

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From one of Latin America's finest writers, a mesmerizing, blackly comic novel about the amazing real-life afterlife of the legendary Eva Peron.

Suddenly struck down by cancer, she was given no hope to live. As thousands of the poor filled the park around her palace, chanting and praying for their "Saint Evita," she died. Some days before the end, she begged her husband that she not be forgotten. Grief-crazed (but politically crazy like a fox), he seized upon this idea quite literally.

Sending for Europe's finest embalmer, he had the man waiting at her deathbed, and within minutes of her last breath, this Michelangelo of the mortuary was hard at work making her body physically immortal. Put on display on a pure glass slab suspended in a single beam of light from the ceiling of a darkened chamber, Evita entered everlasting life as the sacred object of national pilgrimage. Peron did less well: hated, rebelled against, and deposed, he had to flee. But his mere mortal - and equally ugly - successors realized to their acute discomfort that Evita's body was much more powerful than they were.

Whoever controlled it controlled Argentina. And here begins Evita's fantastical true-life (if post-mortem) odyssey. Hidden away, stolen, replicated (three perfect copies of her body were made and used in a mad shell game by various factions), smuggled abroad, buried, dug up, and hijacked again, she traveled two continents exerting strange, unshakable power over everyone in her path.

Publish Date
Publisher
Random House
Language
Spanish
Pages
394

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Santa Evita
Santa Evita
2002, Alfaguara
in Spanish
Cover of: Santa Evita
Santa Evita
1997, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage international ed.
Cover of: Santa Evita
Santa Evita
1996, Knopf
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Santa Evita
Santa Evita
1995, Random House
in Spanish
Cover of: Santa Evita
Santa Evita
1995, Planeta
in Spanish
Cover of: Santa Evita
Santa Evita: [novela]
1995, Seix Barral
in Spanish

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
Vintage Espanol

The Physical Object

Pagination
394 p. ;
Number of pages
394

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22368643M
Internet Archive
santaevita0000mart_t5a0
ISBN 10
067977629X
OCLC/WorldCat
35739486
Library Thing
39103
Goodreads
1037916

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