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In a novel based on the life and death of Eva Peron, her husband, Argentine dictator Juan Peron, has her body preserved after her death and has her enshrined as Saint Evita, but his enemies steal the body and her corpse embarks on a bizarre odyssey
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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 foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins.
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