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Tomas Eloy Martinez


Tomas 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 The Peron Novel, which was published in 1988. Currently he is a professor and director of the Latin American Program at Rutgers University.

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The Peron Novel
Written by Tomas Eloy Martinez

Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-679-76801-2 (0-679-76801-7)

December 29, 1998 | $27.00






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Santa Evita
Written by Tomas Eloy Martinez

Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-679-76814-2 (0-679-76814-9)

July 29, 1997 | $19.95



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...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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La novela de Peron
Written by Tomas Eloy Martinez

Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-679-78146-2 (0-679-78146-3)

May 6, 1997 | $22.00






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Santa Evita
Written by Tomas Eloy Martinez

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-679-77629-1 (0-679-77629-X)

September 17, 1996 | $21.00



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...

Also available as a trade paperback.