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1975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate, Fausto Tamerlón, has been kidnapped by guerrillas, who as part of their ransom demands have stipulated the placement of a bust of Eva Perón in all ninety-two offices of Argentina's leading construction company, Tamerlón & Sons. Tamerlón's head of procurement, Ernesto Marroné, is the man tasked with the job, but he soon finds out that his is a mission for executives of a heroic disposition. His subsequent picaresque journey plunges him into a world of occupied factories, the slums of Buenos Aires and the utopian Evita City. Equipped with his trusty copy of Don Quixote: The Executive-Errant, Marroné is a modern knight who finds himself forced to penetrate the ultimate Argentinian mystery: Eva Perón - that maid of myth and legend whom we know as Evita. A stand-alone novel in its own right but also a prequel to his first novel, The Islands (And Other Stories, 2012), Carlos Gamerro's caustic and utterly original novel is a shattered window onto Argentina's recent past.
About the author
Carlos Gamerro, geboren 1962 in Buenos Aires, zählt zu den bedeutendsten Schriftstellern des heutigen Argentiniens. Neben fünf Romanen und einem Erzählband veröffentlichte er auch Essays und übersetzte u.a. Werke von Graham Greene und William Shakespeare. Darüber hinaus schrieb er das Drehbuch zu dem Film Tres de Corazones. Ein Teil seiner Romane wurde ins Englische und Französische übertragen sowie für das Theater adaptiert.
Summary
1975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate Tamerlan has been kidnapped by guerrillas, demanding a bust of Eva Peron be placed in all 92 offices of his company. The man for the job: Marrone. His mission: to penetrate the ultimate Argentinian mystery: Eva Peron, the legendary Evita. A caustic and original take on Argentina's history.
