{"product_id":"santa-evita-9780552778961","title":"Santa Evita","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEva 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most powerful work of fiction to come from Latin America since \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Alberto Manguel * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary story of passion and craziness... You have to read this book -- Isabel Allende\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant...a profound meditation on the nature and meaning of memory, the relationship between authors and subjects, and the anarchic drive of popular mythology...Few Latin American writers have confronted their countries' past with the wit, style and candour that Mr Martinez shows in \u003ci\u003eSanta Evita\u003c\/i\u003e...he affirms his place among Latin America's best writers -- Nicholas Shumway * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eA master novel... I got choked up, I suffered, I enjoyed, and in the course of reading I picked up bad habits and betrayed my most liberal principles...\u003ci\u003eSanta Evita\u003c\/i\u003e should be banned... or read without delay -- Mario Vargas Llosa\u003cbr\u003eDazzling Gothic novel, perverse love story, impressive horror story... a beautiful book, a miracle -- Carlos Fuentes","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018291675479,"sku":"9780552778961","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780552778961.jpg?v=1750776329","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/santa-evita-9780552778961","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}