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.
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