{"product_id":"santa-evita-9780679768142","title":"Santa Evita","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about life of the legendary Eva Peron, the famed wife of an Argentine dictator, told backwards from death to childhood. \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003eNow a 7-part Limited Series on Hulu.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBigger 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Finally, this is the novel I always wanted to read.\" --Gabriel Garcia Marquez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTomas Eloy Martinez was born in 1934 in Argentina. During the military dictatorship, he lived in exile in Venezuela where he wrote his first three books, all of which were republished in Argentina in 1983, in the first months of democracy. During a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for International Scholars, Martinez wrote \u003cb\u003eThe Peron Novel\u003c\/b\u003e, which was published in 1988.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327031906578,"sku":"9780679768142","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_de0bd578-a466-4050-84a7-98fb33b020e1.jpg?v=1727708582","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/santa-evita-9780679768142","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}