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Santa Evita

From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about the legendary Eva Peron. 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.

Genre
historical fictionmagical realismliterary fiction
Themes
diversitytravel
Setting
1990slatin americaspain
Subject
historybiographypolitics
Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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