Tomás Eloy Martínez, trans. from the Spanish by Frank Wynne. Bloomsbury, $15 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-60819-711-8
In this haunting and surreal depiction of the military dictatorship that gripped Argentina in the late 1970s after the death of Juan Peron, Martínez (1934–2010) explores the devastation of those left behind when their loved ones “disappeared” in the
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Tomas Eloy Martinez, Author Alfaguara $18.95 (296p) ISBN 978-84-204-6423-7
A bimonthly columnist for the New York Times and a Latin American studies professor at Rutgers, Martinez has written several novels, including the Argentine classics Santa Evita (Saint Evita, Planeta, 1996) and La novela de Peron (Peron's Novel,
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Tomas Eloy Martinez, Author Pantheon Books $19.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-394-55838-7
Credibly straddling the terrain between outright fiction and ascertainable fact, making intricate use of actual newspaper reports and interviews (the Argentinean Martinez is a journalist as well as a novelist) and crowding the canvas with a motley...
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Tomas Eloy Martinez, Author, Helen Lane, Translator Vintage Books USA $16 (384p) ISBN 978-0-679-76814-2
The embalmed body of Eva Peron, and the mythology that surrounds it, are the protagonists of this highly praised, surrealistic work of fiction. (Aug.)
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Tomas Eloy Martinez, Author, Helen Lane, Translator Knopf Publishing Group $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44704-7
Where fiction ends and fact begins is one of the intriguing puzzles of this perverse and enigmatic but highly readable ""novel"" about the afterlife of Eva Peron, the small-time actress who turned her marriage to an Argentine dictator into a...
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Tomas Eloy Martinez, Author, Anne McLean, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean. Bloomsbury $23.95 (246p) ISBN 978-1-58234-601-4
A playfully convoluted new work from Argentinean Martínez (Santa Evita
) follows an American graduate student to Buenos Aires on the trail of an unrecorded authentic tango singer named Julio Martel. In May 2001, Bruno Cadogan ("shitting
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