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The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón
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Gamerro, Carlos
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And Other Stories Publishing 2015
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1975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate, Fausto Tamerlán, has been kidnapped by guerrillas, who as part of their ransom demands have stipulated the placement of a bust of Eva Perón in all ninety-two offices of Argentina's leading construction company, Tamerlán & Sons. Tamerlán's head of procurement, Ernesto Marroné, 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, Marroné is a modern knight who finds himself forced to penetrate the ultimate Argentinian mystery: Eva Perón - 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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Carlos Gamerro. (2015). The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón. And Other Stories Publishing.

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        January 15, 2015
        This clever comic novel about a conventional Argentinian businessman caught up in guerilla politics is buoyantly relentless in its biting satire. Argentine novelist and translator Gamerro (The Islands, 2012, etc.) uses the context of early 1970s Peronist political turmoil for his farce, originally published in Spanish in 2004. Our protagonist is Marrone, a placid middle manager devoted to inspirational business texts such as Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends & Influence People. When Marrone's CEO is kidnapped by a guerilla group-frustrating Marrone's plans to make a pitch for a promotion-his severed finger is delivered by mail to his flustered staff. Then Marrone, by now established as a deeply conventional and repressed family man, is himself abducted by the rebels and imprisoned in a plaster factory-the one where they make the eponymous busts of Eva Peron. Gamerro makes full use of his contradiction-rich setting, including bourgeois schoolboys appropriating fierce rebel names and Marrone's dogged efforts to maintain his plans for corporate advancement in the guerilla hideout. In one hilarious passage, Marrone considers Shakespeare's plays from the perspective of how well they illustrate business management principles. In another, he contemplates Evita as a masterpiece of image-creation: "Eva Peron was a born winner, a self-made woman who had created a product-herself-that millions in Argentina and around the world had bought and consumed." Marrone's persistently market-driven constructions are some of the funniest things in the book, especially when other factors suggest his flirtation with rebel leadership could turn his life around. But this seesawing makes him a very funny hero. Though the book could use a few more characters as richly drawn as Marrone, he deserves the spotlight as a bumbling Everyman caught up in a struggle between political change and his own selfishness.

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