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The Adventure Of The Busts Of Eva Peron Carlos Gamerro

The Adventure Of The Busts Of Eva Peron By Carlos Gamerro

The Adventure Of The Busts Of Eva Peron by Carlos Gamerro


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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.

The Adventure Of The Busts Of Eva Peron Summary

The Adventure Of The Busts Of Eva Peron by Carlos Gamerro

1975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate, Fausto Tamerlan, has been kidnapped by guerrillas, who as part of their ransom demands have stipulated the placement of a bust of Eva Peron in all ninety-two offices of Argentina's leading construction company, Tamerlan & Sons. Tamerlan's head of procurement, Ernesto Marrone, 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, Marrone is a modern knight who finds himself forced to penetrate the ultimate Argentinian mystery: Eva Peron - 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.

The Adventure Of The Busts Of Eva Peron Reviews

Praise for The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Peron: 'Some may feel that the armed militancy of the 1970s shouldn't be the subject of knockabout comedy; others, that Eva Peron shouldn't be a target for satire. But in its disection of operative myths and its demystification, The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Peron proposes an effective literary language for the purpose.' Soledad Quereilhac, La Nacion ------- 'The more we laugh at the tragicomic hero Ernesto Marrone, this child of rigorous capitalism turned Montonero revolutionary, the more we empathise with Gamerro, the father of this child who is convinced he can apply the sermons of self-help manuals to breathe new life into the Revolution.' Silvina Friera, Pagina ------- Praise for The Islands: 'Carlos Gamerro has written one of the most ambitious novels about the war." Jonathan Blitzer, The Nation ------- 'The reader is dragged headlong by Barnett's athletic translation - a highly addictive comic voice, its peaks of hectic farce underlaid by a delicate, deadpan absurdism.' Times Literary Supplement ------- 'A weird and wonderful thriller - rife with surreal horror and rampant bad taste.' The Observer ------- 'Exhilarating, inventive and consistently absorbing.' The Guardian -------

About Carlos Gamerro

Carlos Gamerro is one of the best-known and most highly-regarded contemporary Argentine writers. Born in Buenos Aires in 1962, he has published six works of fiction, including the novels The Islands (And Other Stories, 2012 UK and 2014 North American publication) and An Open Secret (Pushkin Press). And Other Stories will publish The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Peron in 2015. He adapted The Islands for a major theatrical production in 2011 and writes influential works of criticism. In addition Gamerro, who was brought up bilingually in English and Spanish, has translated Shakespeare, Auden, and Harold Bloom. ------- Ian Barnett has lived in Buenos Aires since 1991, translating and promoting many Argentinian and other South American writers. He collaborates closely with Carlos Gamerro and has already translated Gamerro's The Islands (And Other Stories, 2012) and An Open Secret. Reviews of The Islands often made a point of praising his inventive, athletic "feat of translation" (Observer). Barnett has been translating from Spanish and French into English since 1994. He studied French literature and linguistics, and graduated from St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. He is a lecturer of the Masters Program in Translation at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires.

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GOR006503364
9781908276506
1908276509
The Adventure Of The Busts Of Eva Peron by Carlos Gamerro
Used - Very Good
Paperback
And Other Stories
2015-03-24
416
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