The Tango Singer (26 page)

Tomás Eloy Martínez was born in Argentina in 1934. During the military dictatorship, he lived in exile in Venezuela, where he wrote his first three books, all of
which were republished in Argentina in 1983, in the first months of democracy. He is currently a professor and director of the Latin American Studies Program at Rutgers University. He was
shortlisted for the 2005 International Man Booker Prize.

Anne McLean has translated Latin American and Spanish novels, short stories, memoirs and other writings by authors including Carmen Martín Gaite, Ignacio Padilla, Orlando
González Esteva, Javier Cercas and Julio Cortázar. She was awarded the Premio Valle Inclan for Literary Translation and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2004 for her
translation of Javier Cercas’
Soldiers of Salamis.

Santa Evita

The Perón Novel

First published in Great Britain 2006
Originally published by Planeta Argentina, 2004

This electronic edition published in 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Copyright © by Tomás Eloy Martínez 2004
English translation copyright © by Anne McLean 2006

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