Tomas Eloy Martinez's fictionalized account of Juan Domingo Peron's return to Argentina in 1973 from exile in Spain is richly detailed, drawing from sources both real and imaginary to paint the general, his three wives, his hangers-on, and the opposition forces awaiting his return. The story is by turns poignant, tragic, and ludicrous. Martinez shows here, as the best novelists can, how fiction illuminates fact.
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