A third-party memoir of the life of Eva Perón.

Santa Evita

Tomás Eloy Martínez

Literature & Fiction

DOUBLEDAY

A fictional account, using actual names and events, of the 1973 return from exile of Argentina's most enigmatic leader and his struggle to retain control over his party, his nation, and his own life and mind

The Peron Novel

Literary

Pantheon Books

United States

Transworld Publishers

The Tango Singer

Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative performances in a series of apparently arbitrary sites around the city. As Bruno tries to find Martel, he begins to untangle the story of the singer's life, and to believe that Martel's increasingly rare performances map a dark labyrinth of the city's past.

Bloomsbury Paperbacks

Simon Cardoso has been dead for thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, finds him in a New Jersey diner. Testimonies confirmed that Simon had been one of the thousands of victims of Argentina's military regime, executed for being a 'subversive'; yet this man is identical to the man she lost three decades ago."

Purgatory

Genre Fiction

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

A hypnotic novel in which an American student's quest to find the greatest living tango singer leads him deep into the labyrinth of Argentina's past. It is 2001, and inflation is spiraling out of control in Argentina as Bruno Cadogan, an American graduate student specializing in Borges, arrives in Buenos Aires. Cadogan is on the trail of Julio Martel, an elusive tango singer rumored to be even better than Carlos Gardel, the greatest singer of the 1920s and '30s. Martel has never recorded and his strange, powerful performances, at seemingly arbitrary sites around the city, are always unannounced. 
Cadogan finds lodging in a boarding house rumored to be the setting of the famous Borges story "The Aleph," and soon finds himself drawn into the tangle of legends surrounding the singer's life. As the economic tension grows and the city hovers on the verge of riots, Bruno begins to believe that Martel's increasingly rare performances are in fact far from random―that they instead form a map of the darkest moments in the city's past.

The Tango Singer: A Novel

Bloomsbury USA

Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday. So begins Purgatory, the final and perhaps most personal work of the great Latin American novelist Tomás Eloy Martínez. Emilia Dupuy's husband vanished in the 1970s, while the two were mapping an Argentine country road. All evidence seemed to confirm that he was among the thousands disappeared by the military regime. Yet Emilia never stopped believing that the disappeared man would reappear. And then he does, in New Jersey. And for Simón, no time at all has passed. In Martínez's hands, this love story and ghost story becomes a masterful allegory for history political and personal, and for a country's inability to integrate its past with its present.Praise for Santa Evita :"Brilliant...Affirms his place among Latin America's best writers."-New York Times"Here is the novel that I have always wanted to read."-Gabriel García Márquez "A beautiful book, a miracle."-Carlos Fuentes "A master novel...I got choked up, I suffered, I enjoyed."-Mario Vargas Llosa

Purgatory: A Novel

Santa Evita (Translated By Helen Lane)

Anchor Books

Companhia das Letras

An irresistible novel about a force derived from the dark face of desire and power. Between Camargo, a powerful director of a reputable newspaper in Buenos Aires, and Reina Remis, a journalist half his age, arises a passion that leads him to a dangerous game of obsession. The intrigues and the erotic suspense fill this story with dominations, and corruptions, until its shocking end. His arrogance prevents him from seeing that other people's feelings are not under his control, and his blindness sinks him in a love story that will forever change his life. Almost everything happens twice, the second time always in a darker and more amazing way than the first.

El Vuelo de La Reina (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

Alfaguara

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Santa Evita

The Peron Novel

Santa Evita

The Tango Singer

Purgatory

The Tango Singer: A Novel

Purgatory: A Novel

Santa Evita (Translated By Helen Lane)

Santa Evita

El Vuelo de La Reina (Spanish Edition)