After Eva Perón’s death in 1952, her embalmed corpse becomes the object of state obsession, political paranoia, and myth-making.

Martínez traces what happens after her death: the military coup, the disappearance of the body, and the elaborate, often absurd attempts to control, hide, and possess it. The narrative moves between documented history and invention, following soldiers, embalmers, bureaucrats, and witnesses whose lives become entangled with Eva’s afterlife. As the corpse is transported, duplicated, and mythologised, it destabilises the boundary between fact and fiction, turning national history into something closer to a fevered archive.

Rather than reconstruct a single truth, Santa Evita tracks how power operates through narrative—how a body becomes symbol, relic, and threat, and how a country continues to orbit it long after death. 

It is SO beautifully weird.

Paperback edition, Transworld/Anchor (1997). Clean, tight binding with light shelf wear to covers; minor creasing at edges and faint surface marks visible under light. Internally clean with no inscriptions or markings. Very good condition overall.