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1975. The cusp of Argentinas Dirty War. The magnate, Fausto Tamerln, has been kidnapped by guerrillas, who as part of their ransom demands have stipulated the placement of a bust of Eva Pern in all ninety-two offices of Argentinas leading construction company, Tamerln & Sons. Tamerlns head of procurement, Ernesto Marron, 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: , Marron is a modern knight who finds himself forced to penetrate the ultimate Argentinian mystery: Eva Pern 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, (And Other Stories, 2012), Carlos Gamerros caustic and utterly original novel is a shattered window onto Argentinas recent past.