Santa Evita (Spanish Edition): Spanish-Language Edition (Paperback)

from dodau

Once I got into this I realised I had read it before. But it's an enjoyable book and easy to read so I continued with it. Eva Peron fascinates me, she came from nothing, a illegitamate child of an impoverished family, and became first lady of her country. Seen now by half of Argentina as a monste...

from jmoncton

Santa Evita is a combination of fact, fiction, and fantasy about what happened to Eva Peron's body after her death. Adored by the poor of Argentina, Eva represented the hope and possibilities of the downtrodden who could maybe someday follow her meteoric path from a poor uneducated illegitimate c...

from Laura400

This complex book is well written and deftly translated. Its subject matter and style seem to place it squarely within the genre of magical realism, though much of the novel also seems to relate real facts apparently researched painstakingly by the author. It's always interesting to read, and at ...

from nosajeel

An interesting book that focuses on what happened to Eva Peron's embalmed corpse from her death until it was finally buried in Buenos Aires two decades later after residing in the intelligence headquarters, a movie theater, an attic, a burial plot in Milan, Spain and then back to Argentina.The st...

from jasonlf

An interesting book that focuses on what happened to Eva Peron's embalmed corpse from her death until it was finally buried in Buenos Aires two decades later after residing in the intelligence headquarters, a movie theater, an attic, a burial plot in Milan, Spain and then back to Argentina. The s...