{"title":"Books by Tomas Eloy Martinez","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780552778961","title":"Santa Evita","description":"Eva Peron entered immortality on 26th July, 1952. The bizarre after-life of her embalmed body - hidden, hijacked, replicated, smuggled abroad, buried, resurrected, repatriated - echoed her equally strange life. From the story of the plain poor-trash girl who reinvented herself to become first the uncrowned queen of Argentina's masses and then their uncanonized saint, Tomas Eloy Martinez has created a mesmerizing, highly readable work of fiction.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291344023925,"sku":"9780552778961","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780552778961_6880ffce-4a1d-4e54-b83a-c326a66fc618.jpg?v=1786013467"},{"product_id":"9781408822029","title":"Purgatory","description":"\u003cp\u003eSimón Cardoso has been dead for thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, finds him in a New Jersey diner. Testimonies confirmed that Simón had been one of the thousands of victims of Argentina's military regime, executed for being a 'subversive'; yet this man is identical to the man she lost three decades ago. While skirting around the mystery, Eloy Martínez masterfully peels away layer upon layer of history - both personal and political. And just as Simón's disappearance comes to represent the thousands of disappearances that were such a common occurrence during the dictatorship, so Emilia's refusal to accept his death mirrors the country's unwillingness to face its reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The final work of the late Martínez, \u003ci\u003ePurgatory\u003c\/i\u003e is his most moving, most autobiographical novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299035689333,"sku":"9781408822029","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781408822029_4cf8edbc-672d-4987-a297-a3cb7cbd3012.jpg?v=1786019754"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-tomas-eloy-martinez.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}