Tomás Eloy Martínez Libri

Pubblicato in più di sessanta paesi, Santa Evita (1995) è il romanzo più tradotto della storia della letteratura argentina. Basato sulla leggendaria figura di Eva Perón, il romanzo inizia là dove finisce la vita della sua protagonista. Mentre ripercorriamo a ritroso la vicenda della piccola sgraziata attricetta di provincia che fece innamorare prima il presidente della Repubblica argentina e poi l’intera nazione, siamo stregati dall’avventurosa vita post mortem del suo corpo: affidato da Perón alle cure di un imbalsamatore cui spetta il compito di renderlo immortale; poi moltiplicato in più esemplari per sottrarlo a macabri tentativi di rapimento; trasferito, nascosto, ricercato addirittura dai servizi segreti e infine idolatrato, reso mitico dall’aura di «santità» che emana la leggenda di Evita. Con una prefazione di Fabio Stassi.

“One of the most original and entertaining books to come out of Latin America in recent years.”—Mario Vargas Llosa On June 20, 1973, General Juan Peron, the most revered—as well as the most hated—dictator in the history of Argentina, returned to his homeland after eighteen years of exile. His arrival was the occasion for a fratricidal massacre. Less than a year later, Peron was dead. The throngs that filed past his body as it lay in state were as vast and impassioned as those that had mourned his wife, Evita, the music hall performer Peron had turned into Argentina’s secular saint and who embalmed corpse he had turned into his personal talisman. Out of the facts of this enigmatic despot’s life, the Argentine journalist and novelist Tomas Eloy Martinez has created a novel who fantasy only heightens its humanity. For in The Peron Novel the mask of history is lifted to reveal a tragically hollow man who was a born follower until the moment he found himself transformed into a leader. The result is a tour de force, the most audacious and compelling meditation on absolute power since Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch. “A brilliant image of national psychosis. Vividly written.”—The New York Times Book Review

The last memorable novel by the author of The Tango Singer, one of Latin America's leading novelists until his death in January 2010.

Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded and yet, is said to be so beautiful that it is almost supernatural. As Bruno tries to find Martel, he begins to untangle the story of the singer's life.

Cuentos de una voz importante en la literatura contemporánea argentina, que exploran temas profundos y emociones humanas a través de relatos cautivadores y originales.

El vuelo de la reina es una novela irresistible sobre la fuerza que nace de la cara oscura del deseo. Entre Camargo, el poderoso director del principal diario de Buenos Aires, y Reina Remis, una joven periodista a la que dobla la edad, surge una pasión que los conduce a un peligroso juego de obsesiones. La intriga y el suspense erótico pueblan esta historia de dominaciones, corrupción e instrumentos de poder, hasta dibujar un final imprevisible, consecuencia última de la ambición desmedida y del presente y el pasado del protagonista.