Death was only the beginning—Eva Perón’s body traveled farther than any myth, and her story is as fascinating as it is unsettling.
Santa Evita, the acclaimed novel by Tomás Eloy Martínez, recounts the incredible odyssey of Eva Perón’s embalmed corpse following her death at the age of 33. Blending historical fact with gripping fiction, the author reconstructs the secret saga that unfolded after the fall of Juan Domingo Perón’s government in 1955, when the Argentine military seized Evita’s body to prevent it from becoming an eternal symbol of Peronism. What followed was a series of clandestine transfers, absurd rituals, and political obsessions that turned her corpse into a relic as powerful as the woman herself once was.
With masterful prose, Martínez explores the thin line between myth and reality, power and devotion, body and history. Eva Perón—the woman who rose from poverty to become Argentina’s uncrowned queen—comes alive in these pages not merely as a character, but as a phenomenon. Translated into more than 30 languages and with over 10 million copies sold worldwide, Santa Evita is one of the most widely read Latin American novels of all time.
A modern classic about cult, memory, and immortality in a country where politics often becomes religion.
Año: 1997 | Páginas: 384
Vintage
