EVITA: THE LIFE OF EVA PERON

Book ID/图书代码： 06545016B96012

English Summary/英文概要： Eva Peron remains Argentina’s best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Peron himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and male-dominated society, could not have existed as a political figure. In this book, Jill Hedges tells the story of a remarkable woman whose glamour, charisma, political influence and controversial nature continue to generate huge amounts interest 60 years after her death. From her poverty-stricken upbringing as an illegitimate child in rural Argentina, Peron made her way to the highest echelons of Argentinean society, via a brief acting career and her relationship with Juan. After their political breakthrough, her charitable work and magnetic personality earned her wide public acclaim and there was national mourning following her death from cancer at the age of just 33.Based on new sources and first-hand interviews, the book will seek to explore the personality and experiences of ’Evita’ and the contemporary events that influenced her and were in turn influenced by her. As the first substantive biography of Eva Peron in English, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern Argentinean history and the cult of ’Evita’."

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 贝隆夫人至今仍是阿根廷最广为人知也最有代表性的人物，甚至比马拉多纳或者梅西都更出名，也当然比她的丈夫、胡安•多明戈•贝隆总统更引人注目，虽然他是一个很有魅力和魄力的领袖人物。在阿根廷清高而男性崇拜的社会里，若不是成为了贝隆总统的夫人，艾维塔不过是一个没受过多少教育的平凡女人，也不可能成为一个政治人物。这本书中，Jill Hedges讲述了这个充满魅力和领导能力、拥有极大的政治影响力，但天性颇具争议的女性是如何在逝世60年后仍旧能够受到广泛的关注。贝隆夫人小时候在阿根廷的乡下长大，家世贫穷，从未上学，但最终凭借自己的努力通过演艺事业走上了社会的顶端并遇到了自己的丈夫。在政治突围之后，她的慈善事业和有吸引力的个性更让她成为公众关注的焦点，在她因为癌症在33岁时过世时，全国人民都在哀悼。本书援引新的资料信息和第一手的采访，希望能够再现“艾维塔”的个性和经历以及那些影响到她、使她成为如此一个人的事件。这是第一本用英语撰写的有关艾娃•贝隆的重要传记，也是所有对近代阿根廷历史以及“艾维塔”感兴趣的读者必追书目。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：这本有关贝隆夫人（虽有争议，但可能确实是二十世纪中叶最有政治影响力的女性）的全新传记相当生动，信息详实，观点清晰犀利。Jill Hedges将艾维塔性格中的各个方面都展现了出来，她的一生或许精彩，但也确实短暂，从很多方面来看颇具悲剧色彩。本书中审慎地收录了有关一个备受瞩目的年轻女演员可能出现的造谣中伤，也研究了阿根廷社会历史中的很多方面，不仅记录了贝隆夫人的一生，也记下了很多她过世之后发生的事。和同名音乐剧相比更加准确，相当接近真实真相。（Laurence Whitehead，牛津Nuffield学院资深研究员）

’This vivid new biography of Evita Peron (arguably the most prominent woman in politics in the mid-twentieth century) is well-informed, thoughtful, and perceptive. Jill Hedges portrays both the light and the shade of Evita’s spectacular, but brief- and in many ways tragic- life. This is an exercise that includes judiciously sorting through much of the salacious gossip provoked by the spectacular rise of an impoverished young actress. Along the way the study illuminates many fascinating aspects of Argentine social history. It covers not only her remarkable life, but also the extraordinary tale of her afterlife. Much more accurate than the musical, the true story is almost as gripping.’ --Laurence Whitehead, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford

Eva Perón’s meteoric rise from provincial actress to the most powerful woman in Latin American politics is a story well worth telling. Loved and hated in equal measure, her image and legacy endures to this day despite her considerable achievements in the areas of social policy and women s rights. Jill Hedges has written a sympathetic, remarkably even- handed, and highly readable biography of Eva Perón that cuts through the many myths that surround her life, and adds much to our understanding both of the person and the political phenomenon that became Evita. --Maxine Molyneux, Professor of Sociology, UCL Institute of the Americas

About the Author/作者介绍： Jill Hedges自2001年以来即担任牛津分析学报拉美板块的资深编辑，也曾担任阿根廷商业信息通讯社Esmerk的总编。她拥有利物浦大学拉丁美洲研究的博士学位，曾著有《Argentina: A Modern History》。

Jill Hedges has been Senior Editor for Latin America at Oxford Analytica since 2001 and was formerly Editorial Manager of business information service Esmerk Argentina. She has a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Liverpool and is the author of Argentina: A Modern History.

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