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Article: The Peron Novel.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- August 27, 1988
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THE PERON NOVEL. By Tomas Eloy Martinez. Translated by Asa Zatz. Pantheon. 357pp. $19.95.
Tomas Eloy Maninez's The Peron Novel begins on the morning of June 20, 1973, the day when General Peron began his long-awaited homeward flight to Argentina after eighteen years of exile. Buoyed by hope of a political miracle, an estimated 3 million people made their way to Ezeiza Airport outside Buenos Aires to greet his arrival, only to find themselves caught in a shootout between the general's right- and left-wing supporters. Just over a year later Peron was dead and his widow, Isabel, left in control. By 1976, she was under house arrest for embezzlement, the ...